LEGION BASEBALL: Northern Lakes takes two in Sandpoint
MAX OSWALD/Bonner County Daily Bee Northern Lakes third baseman Grant Allaway tags out North Idaho Laker Gavin Day to end a run down between third and home in the first game of Wednesday's doubleheader at Memorial Field.
MAX OSWALD/Bonner County Daily Bee Northern Lakes pitcher Jace Taylor goes into his windup during the first game of Wednesday's doubleheader with North Idaho at Memorial Field in Sandpoint.
SANDPOINT — Caleb Mason singled to score James Moore with the go-ahead run with one out in the top of the seventh inning as the Northern Lakes Mountaineers rallied to beat the North Idaho Lakers 4-3 in a class A North Idaho League game at Memorial Field on Wednesday.
“We’re very evenly matched,” Northern Lakes coach Bryce Johnson said. “We’ve had some classics with them the last few years and tonight was really a blood pressure kind of evening.”
Sage Medeiros singled to score M. Little to give North Idaho a 1-0 lead in the first inning. The Lakers added two runs on an error to make it 3-0 after the first.
Mason put Northern Lakes on the scoreboard with an RBI double, also scoring Moore in the third inning. Evan Shanley tied the game at 3-3 with an RBI single later in the frame.
Taylor struck out six in the first game for Northern Lakes.
In the second game, Ethan Pecor singled to score Taylor, one of his three RBIs in the game as the Mountaineers beat the Lakers 4-3 in 8 innings in a nonleague game.
Pecor also had a two-run single in the first inning for Northern Lakes (14-5, 11-1 NIL), which hosts Orofino in a doubleheader on Friday at Timberlake High starting at 11 a.m.
FIRST GAME
Northern Lakes 003 000 1 — 4 7 2
North Idaho 300 000 0 — 3 3 1
Jace Taylor and Jace Cooksey; Dallen Williams, Cole Sanroman (5) and Coleman Inge.
HITS: NL — Mason 3, Allaway 2, Shanley, Cooksey. NI — Day, Medeiros 2. 2B — Mason 2.
SECOND GAME
Northern Lakes 300 000 01 — 4 8 2
North Idaho 000 300 00 — 3 5 0
Grant Allaway, Eric Wylie (6) and Jace Cooksey; Sage Medeiros, Parker Reichart (8) and Gavin Day.
HITS: NL — Lenz, Mason, Taylor 2, Allaway 2, Pecor 2. NI — Medeiros, Mellander, Williams, Johnson, Tyler. 2B — Tyler.
MAX OSWALD/Bonner County Daily Bee Northern Lakes pitcher Jace Taylor goes into his windup during the first game of Wednesday's doubleheader with North Idaho at Memorial Field in Sandpoint.