PREP BASEBALL: Lakeland, Lake City split IEL twinbill

COEUR d’ALENE — Freshman Landon Puzio singled to right field to score junior Broxton Lukey with the go-ahead run with two out in the top of the seventh inning to lift the Lakeland Hawks past the Lake City Timberwolves 3-2 in the first game of an Inland Empire League doubleheader on Thursday at Lake City High. 

Freshman Austin Hocking scored earlier in the seventh on an error to tie it at 2-2 for Lakeland. 

Lake City took the lead in the bottom of the sixth as senior Owen Moore scored on an error to make it 2-1. Junior Maverick Lanigan allowed four hits and no earned runs in the first game for Lake City., which committed five errors in the opener. Freshman Brody Weitz struck out six for Lakeland.

"I thought Lanigan pitched well enough to win a game for us, but we can't have five errors with only two hits," Lake City coach Mike Criswell said. "This team needs to put up double digit runs to compete. Weitz had a great outing for them, and they swing the sticks. Al (Bevacqua, Lakeland coach) is doing a great job over there."

In the nightcap, senior Jack Pierce hit a bases-clearing triple in the bottom of the second inning as the Timberwolves scored nine runs in the frame and went on to beat the Hawks 17-5 in five innings to get the split. 

Avrey Cherry, Ethan Stach and Tanner Franklin had two RBIs each for Lake City in the second game. Nate Bevacqua and Tadgh Ellwood had two RBIs each in the second game for Lakeland. 

"Tanner locked it down early and added a couple of hits to help turn the order over," Criswell said. "Our approach was much better in the second game, that's for sure. The boys responded in the second game and never looked back. We needed that after our Game 1 performance."

Lake City (9-4, 8-3 IEL) hosts Coeur d’Alene in an IEL doubleheader on Saturday. 

Lakeland (5-13, 3-11) hosts Lewiston in a league doubleheader on Saturday. 

FIRST GAME 

Lakeland    100    000    2    —    3    6    3 

Lake City    000    011    0    —    2    2    5 

Brody Weitz, Evan Shanley (7) and Hunter Avriett; Maverick Lanigan, Mark Holecek (6) and Tanner Franklin. 

HITS: LL — Tamangi, Caywood, Shanley, Puzio, Hocking 2. LC — Moore, Lanigan. 2B — Shanley. 

SECOND GAME 

Lakeland    140    00    —    5    8    1 

Lake City    192    5x    —    17    9    1 

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

Landon Puzio, Josh Caywood (2), Tadgh Ellwood (4), Jake Jovick (4) and Hunter Avriett; Aven Adams, Tanner Franklin (2), Jack Pierce (5) and Avrey Cherry. 

HITS: LL — Tamangi 2, Bevacqua 2, Ellwood, Shanley, Hocking, Lukey. LC — Pierce, Holecek, Cherry, Moore, Adams, Stach, Franklin 2, Noffke. 2B — Holecek, Stach, Franklin. 3B — Cherry, Pierce. 

Post Falls 10-2 

Moscow 1-4 

POST FALLS — Senior Kyler Cooley went 2 for 4 with two RBIs and three runs scored for the Trojans in an Inland Empire League win over the Bears in the first game of a doubleheader at Post Falls High. 

Mike O’Connor, Brandon Felix and Brandon Morrison also drove in two runs each for Post Falls, which led 8-0 after three innings. 

In the nightcap, Caleb Jimerson scored on a groundout to cut the deficit to 4-2, but the Trojans were unable to push the tying run across from second base as the Bears held on in six innings after the game was called due to darkness. 

Cooley and O’Connor had RBIs in the second game for Post Falls (7-11, 4-8 IEL), which hosts Lakeland in a doubleheader on Tuesday. 

Moscow is 13-6, 8-5. 

FIRST GAME 

Moscow    000    100    0    —    1    6    5 

Post Falls    242    002    x    —    10    11    2 

Wyatt Hartig, Keaton Clark (3), Mason Helbling (6) and Tyson Izzo; Gavin Wienker, Marshall Tomlinson (6) and Brandon Felix. 

HITS: Mos — Izzo, Holloway, Clark, Helbling, Rigney, Rauch. PF — Tomlinson, Cooley 2, O’Connor, Morrison, Reese, Felix, Perkins, Kearney 3. 2B — Rigney, Felix, Cooley. 

SECOND GAME 

Moscow    000    031    —    4    8    1 

Post Falls    000    101    —    2    4    2 

Game called after 6 innings due to darkness.

Max Winfree, Conor Isakson (6) and Tyson Izzo; Connor Perkins, James Morast (5), Bryce Berger (6) and Marshall Tomlinson. 

HITS: Mos — Isakson, Hurley 2, Izzo, Holloway, Hartig, Rigney, Rauch. PF — Jimerson, Tomlinson, O’Connor, Morrison. 2B — Hartig, Izzo, Tomlinson. 

Bonners Ferry 12

Kellogg 2

BONNERS FERRY — Further details were not available.

    MARK NELKE/Press Lakeland's Griffin Tamagni (2) throws to first base as Kyle Johnson (15) of Lake City slides into second during the first game of a doubleheader Thursday at Lake City High.