LEGION BASEBALL: Lums advance to title game at Lewiston tourney

LEWISTON — The Coeur d’Alene Lumbermen split their two games at the Dwight Church Memorial Tournament on Saturday at Lewis-Clark State’s Harris Field.

But the Lums’ 12-5 over the Nampa Chiefs in their first game was good enough to advance Coeur d’Alene (8-5) to tonight’s 6 p.m. championship game vs. the Mercedes Benz Boys, a club team from Seattle.

“One of the reasons we came here is, we wanted to see them,” Lums coach Darren Taylor said. “It’s pretty cool to see them in a championship game.”

Coeur d’Alene lost 9-6 to the Lewis-Clark Twins on Saturday night, in a game that also counted in the class AA North Idaho League standings.

As the only two AA teams in North Idaho, both the Lums and Twins have already qualified for the state AA tournament in July at Thorco Field in Coeur d’Alene starting July 24.

Saturday’s game, as well as a doubleheader scheduled for July 19 at Thorco, will determine seeding for state.

Against Nampa, Kyle Bridge went 3 for 4 with three RBIs and two runs scored for the Lums, including a two-run triple in the sixth inning.

Bryce Hall went 3 for 5 with two RBIs and two runs scored, and Eric Bumbaugh drove in two runs and scored twice.

Isaac Ziegler earned the win with 6.1 innings of relief, allowing three hits, striking out six and walking two. He allowed two runs, one earned.

Against Lewis-Clark, Hall went 4 for 5 with two runs scored for the Lums, but the Twins jumped out to a 7-2 lead after three innings and held on. Hayden Line was 3 for 4 with two RBIs and two runs scored for Lewis-Clark (3-8).

“We played like we were already in the title game,” Taylor said of the Lewis-Clark game. “Not our proudest moment. Lewiston’s good, but we made a ton of baseball mistakes — running into each other on a popup, booting ground balls, getting doubled off on a line drive with the bases loaded.”

Bumbaugh drove in two runs for the Lums.

COEUR d’ALENE 12, NAMPA CHIEFS 5

Nampa 320 000 0 — 5 5 2

Cd’A 221 043 x — 12 12 1

Kyle Burton, Dante Avjian (5) and Ricky Perez; CJ Elliott, Isaac Ziegler (1) and Jared Taylor, Joe DuCoeur (7).

HITS: Nam — Wallingford 2, Renschler, Perez, Kessinger. Cd’A — Hall 3, Shepard 2, Bumbaugh, DuCoeur, Erickson, Taylor, Bridge 3. 3B — Bridge.

LEWIS-CLARK 9, COEUR d’ALENE 6

Cd’A 101 003 1 — 6 10 3

L-C 403 110 x — 9 12 3

Owen Benson, Jesse Brown (6) and Joe DuCoeur; Hayden Line, Kaden Daniel (6) and Emmett Slagg.

HITS: Cd’A — Hall 4, Bumbaugh, DuCoeur, Bridge, Ziegler, Usdrowski, J. Taylor. LC — Krasselt, E. Taylor, Ricard 2, Line 3, Daniel, T. Elliott 2, Barden, Jelinek. 2B — E. Taylor, Ricard. 3B — Bumbaugh.

Northern Lakes splits again at Bozeman tourney

BOZEMAN, Mont. — The class A Mountaineers beat the Kalispell Lakers 9-5, then fell 8-6 to the Bozeman Bucks to finish 2-2 in pool play at the Howard Rein tournament.

“The biggest thing is, we’ve been cashing in with guys on,” Northern Lakes coach Bryce Johnson said.

Coming into the Bozeman game, the Mountaineers knew, win or lose, the two teams would be the second and third seeds, and meet again today at noon PDT in the semifinal game of the seven-team tournament. The winner will play the top seed, the Helena Reps, in the title game at 2:30 p.m. PDT.

Against Kalispell, Raiston Ellwood was 2 for 3 with a triple, an RBI and two runs scored for Northern Lakes (6-4). Caleb Mason doubled and drove in a pair of runs.

Mountaineers pitchers allowed just three hits, but walked 10 and hit one.

Against Bozeman, Andrew Horn went 3 for 4 with an RBI and a run scored for Northern Lakes, and Ellwood was 2 for 4 and scored twice.

Moses Feltenstein hit a two-run homer in the fourth to put Bozeman up 4-3. The Bucks added five in the fifth to lead 8-3, then held on as the Mountaineers brought the tying run to the plate in the seventh after Horn’s RBI double.

“It was a fun game to be a part of,” Johnson said. “Probably the most high-level baseball we’ve played all year.”

NORTHERN LAKES 9, KALISPELL 5

Kalispell 002 12 — 5 3 3

N. Lakes 060 3x — 9 6 2

Game called in 5th inning due to tourney time limit.

Trever Cockerill, Braden Casper (2) and Ethan Kim; Grant Allaway, Caleb Mason (4) and Jace Cooksey.

HITS: Kal — B. Casper, E. Casper, Brink. NL — R. Ellwood 2, Mason, Horn, Cooksey, Allaway. 2B — B. Casper, E. Casper, Brink, Horn, Mason. 3B — R. Ellwood.

BOZEMAN 8, NORTHERN LAKES 6

N. Lakes 100 202 1 — 6 10 2

Bozeman 002 240 x — 8 8 4

Parker Holly, Andrew Horn (6) and Jace Cooksey; Charlie Forrest, Van Shockley (6) and Jacob Snyder.

HITS: NL — R. Ellwood 2, Horn 3, Cooksey, Wells, Holly, Lenz, Pemberton. Boze — Houk, Snyder, Melin, Hillsgrove, Zundel, Feltenstein 2, Norick. 2B — Horn, Cooksey, R. Ellwood, Norick. HR — Feltenstein.

N.I. Lakers 19-3

Orofino 9-9

SANDPOINT — Coleman Inge went 3 for 3 with a triple, two singles, five RBIs, and two walks in the first game as the North Idaho Lakers beat the visiting Merchants in the first game, a class A North Idaho League game, at War Memorial Field.

Orofino won the nonleague second game 9-3.

In the first game, each Lakers starter had at least one hit. Mason Little was 3 for 4 with two doubles, a single, and three RBIs. Six different Lakers had multi-hit efforts and the team recorded 18 hits overall. The Lakers did the majority of their damage in the bottom of the fourth when they put up 10 runs.

In the second game, North Idaho out-hit Orofino 11-7, but committed all three of its errors in the second inning, when the Merchants scored eight runs.

Jorden Tyler was 2 for 2 with two singles, an RBI, and two walks for the Lakers.

The Lakers (6-6, 3-2 NIL) will be back in action against the Coeur d’Alene Lumbermen on Tuesday at War Memorial Field.

FIRST GAME

Orofino 210 51 — 9 12 1

North Idaho 225 (10)x — 19 18 2

Game called in 5th inning due to 10-run rule.

W – Medeiros. L – Hanna.

HITS: Oro — Hanna 3, Tondevold 2, Barlow 2, S. Naranjo, Olive 2, Phillips. NI — Little 3, Inge 3, Medeiros 3, Tyler 2, Aexel 2, Johnson 2, Kuprienko, Roop, Reichart. 2B – Little 2, Olive, Medeiros, Johnson, Aexel. 3B – Inge, S. Naranjo, Olive.

SECOND GAME

Orofino 080 010 0 — 9 7 2

North Idaho 200 000 1 — 3 11 3

W – S. Naranjo. L – Tyler.

HITS: Oro – Tondevold, S. Naranjo, Q, Naranjo, Hanna, Phillips, Barlow, Christopherson. NI — Little 2, Medeiros 2, Tyler 2, Inge, Reichart, Roop, Miller, Hamelin-Johnson. 3B – Hanna.