LEGION BASEBALL: Lums, Northern Lakes knocked out of wood bat tourney

COEUR d’ALENE — Patrick Rimpau drove in three runs and Jackson Scherr homered leading off the top of the fourth inning for the Coeur d’Alene Lumbermen "AA" team, which beat Hodgen Distributing of Pendleton, Ore., 10-1 in a crossover game to conclude play in the Spokane/Coeur d’Alene Wood Bat Classic at Thorco Field on Saturday night.

Ryan Schneider struck out seven and allowed two hits for the Lums.

“Ryan threw the ball really well,” Coeur d’Alene coach Darren Taylor said. “After that walk and run (in the first inning), he didn’t allow anything and settled down nicely.”

Coeur d’Alene went 1-2 in pod play, losing in its first game on Saturday to the Spokane Expos 16U 11-8. The Expos finished third in the pod. Coeur d'Alene finished fourth. The top two teams in each four-team pod advanced to the quarterfinals. The Eastside Baseball Renegades, which beat Coeur d'Alene, and the Kennewick Outlaws, who lost to the Lums, advanced from the Thorco Field pod.

“The teams in our pod were really good,” Coeur d’Alene coach Darren Taylor said. “It would have nice to get through and see where we’re at, but we’ll continue to get ourselves ready for the postseason.”

Joe DuCoeur and Marcus Manzardo had two RBIs each for Coeur d’Alene (18-8), which faces the Glacier Twins of Whitefish in the Whitefish tournament on Thursday at 7 p.m. PDT.

Against the Spokane Expos 16U, DuCoeur had two RBIs and Ryan Schneider scored three runs for Coeur d’Alene.

Gavin Wideman drove in three runs for the Expos.

“We played pretty well, but just got started a little too late,” Taylor said. “With the rules of the tournament, we knew we couldn’t give them more than a run and when they scored twice in the first inning, it kind of took the air out of the balloon for us. We came back hard and should have gotten one more crack at them.”

COEUR d’ALENE 10, HODGEN DISTRIBUTING 1

Coeur d’Alene 531 10 — 10 12 0

Hod. Distrib. 100 00 — 1 2 2

Game called after 5 innings due to 8-run rule.

Ryan Schneider and Joe DuCoeur, Calvin Carroll (5); Peal, Bensching (3) and Primus. W — Schneider. L — Peal.

HITS: Cd’A — Taylor, DuCoeur 2, Manzardo 2, Scherr, Larson, Rimpau, Erickson, Bridge, Carroll. HD — Demianew. 2B — Larson, Manzardo 2, Rimpau. HR — Scherr.

SPOKANE EXPOS 16U 11, COEUR d’ALENE 8

Spokane Expos 211 43 — 11 9 2

Coeur d’Alene 011 06 — 8 8 4

Game called after 5 innings due to tourney time limit.

Mitchell Holliday, Shane Hawes (5) and Castle Keaton; Owen Benson, Zach Garza (4), Joe DuCoeur (4) and Jackson Scherr.

HITS: SE — Krepcik 3, Keaton, Fox 2, Wideman, Pitts 2. Cd’A — Larson, Scherr, Schneider, DuCoeur 2, Rimpau, Garza, Erickson. 3B — Scherr.

Northern Lakes falls on walkoff in final pod game

SPOKANE — Northern Lakes, an "A" team playing in the Senior Division, finished its run in the Al K. Jackson pod 0-3 following an 8-7 loss to Bellingham on Saturday morning.

Later, Northern Lakes faced La Grande (Ore.), the fourth-place team from the Medical Lake pod to conclude tournament play, with La Grande winning 10-1.

Triston Clift drove in two runs for Northern Lakes against Bellingham, which claimed the win in the bottom of the eighth inning on a walkoff single.

Northern Lakes (14-11) is scheduled to face the Coeur d’Alene "A" team in the opening game of the Missoula Mavericks tournament on Thursday at 11:30 a.m., then face Mountain View at 2 p.m.

BELLINGHAM 8, NORTHERN LAKES 7

Northern Lakes 022 300 00 — 7 6 4

Bellingham 005 020 01 — 8 9 4

2 out when winning run scored.

Louis Powell, Scott Pote (5) and Scott Pemberton; White, Paxton (4) and Roberts. W — Paxton. L — Pote.

HITS: NL — Powell, Clift, Hessing 2, Schaffner, Wysong. Bell — Penock 2, Paxton, Whitten, Roberts, Moorlog, Vandist, Brooks 2. 2B — Hessing, Powell. 3B — Roberts.