LEGION BASEBALL: Weatherhead, Gwaltney pitch Lums to sweep
COEUR d’ALENE — Nate Weatherhead pitched a two-hitter in the opener, and Aaron Gwaltney followed with a two-hitter in the nightcap as the Coeur d’Alene Lumbermen “AA” team swept the Mt. Spokane Wild 18U “AAA” squad 11-1 and 12-0 on Saturday at Thorco Field.
Weatherhead struck out six and walked none in the opener for Coeur d’Alene (4-3), allowing a home run in the fifth inning.
Travis Usdrowski drove in five runs for the Lums, two on a third-inning double. Charlie Dixon drove in three runs, two on a fourth-inning single.
In the second game, Gwaltney struck out seven, walked none and allowed just a two-out single in the first.
Dixon hit a two-run double to highlight a nine-run first inning. Austin DeBoer had an RBI double in the inning, and Usdrowski and Chase Saunders each had run-scoring singles.
Mt. Spokane pitchers walked 16 and hit five in the two games, and the Wild committed nine errors.
Coeur d’Alene returns to action June 10 with a noon doubleheader vs. the Lewis-Clark Twins at Thorco Field. The Lums and Twins are the only class “AA” teams in North Idaho.
FIRST GAME
Mt. Spokane 000 01 — 1 2 3
Coeur d’Alene 104 42 — 11 6 2
Game called in 5th inning due to 10-run rule.
Preston Wurslin, Johny Horner (4), Matt Cobean (4) and Ben Wiser; Nate Weatherhead and Chase Saunders.
HITS: MS — Busch, Airey. Cd’A — Christ, Saunders, Mangini, Usdrowski, Dixon, Ziegler. 2B — Usdrowski. HR — Airey.
SECOND GAME
Mt. Spokane 000 00 — 0 1 6
Coeur d’Alene 902 1x — 12 5 2
Joe Spier, Ben Wiser (3) and Justin Davis; Aaron Gwaltney and Chase Saunders.
HITS: MS — Wurslin. Cd’A — Christ, Saunders, DeBoer, Usdrowski, Dixon. 2B — DeBoer, Dixon.
N. Lakes 12
Prairie 16U 1
POST FALLS — Jace Taylor struck out 10 and scattered five hits, and the Mountaineers “A” team broke a tie with 11 runs in the top of the seventh inning to beat the Cardinals 16U squad at Brett James Memorial Field.
Northern Lakes (2-0) beat Prairie for the second time in three days, winning 7-4 on Thursday in Rathdrum.
Evan Shanley’s RBI single in the seventh made it 4-1 Northern Lakes. James Moore’s two-run single made it 7-1.
Jace Cooksey, who was intentionally walked earlier in the inning, delivered a three-run double to make it 11-1, and Eric Wylie’s run-scoring single closed out the scoring.
Taylor walked three. Prairie scored first in the bottom of the first when Gavin Wienker singled in Isaiah Kearney, who led off with a single.
Northern Lakes tied it in the fifth when Moore singled with one out and scored on a two-out single by Caleb Mason.
Northern Lakes returns to action next Sunday against Moscow in a North Idaho League doubleheader in Rathdrum.
N. Lakes 000 010 (11) — 12 10 0
Prairie 16U 100 000 0 — 1 5 3
Jace Taylor and Jace Cooksey; Tim Howard, Caden Perkins (6), Alec Finn (7), Bryce Berger (7) and Mason Perkins.
HITS: NL — Lenz, Mason 2, Taylor, Cooksey, Wylie, Shanley, Holly, Moore 2. Pra — Kearney 2, Wienker, Berger, Morton. 2B — Lenz, Cooksey.