PREP BASEBALL: Lake City, IEL champ Coeur d'Alene split to conclude regular season
COEUR d’ALENE — Owen Moore and Andy Everson combined for seven RBIs for Lake City, which finished with 15 hits in a 13-6 win over rival Coeur d’Alene in the first game of an Inland Empire League doubleheader at Ted Page Field on Tuesday.
Coeur d'Alene scored twice in the bottom of the seventh inning to capture the nightcap 8-7.
Tanner Franklin pitched 6.2 innings for Lake City in the opener.
“Tanner was a dog on the bump,” Lake City coach Mike Criswell said. “We woke the sticks up early and allowed him to pitch with a lead the entire game. 15 hits as a team is right where we need to be.”
Harrison Trunkey-Evans and Gavin Helms had two RBIs each in the opener for Coeur d’Alene.
“Lake City showed up, Tanner threw it well and they hit the ball well as a team,” Coeur d’Alene coach Brandon Williams said.
Gavin Helms hit a walk-off double in the second game for Coeur d’Alene (15-2, 13-2 IEL), which clinched the league title last Saturday with a sweep at Lake City.
“We put ourselves in a hole in the second game, but the guys grinded and had a better approach at the plate,” Williams said. “We had the guys take a pitch just to see it. We started to have some quality at-bats.”
Lake City (10-7, 9-6) will face Post Falls in a 6A District 1 loser-out game, with the winner advancing to face Coeur d’Alene in a best-of-3 regional championship series starting Tuesday at Coeur d’Alene.
“We are swinging it well and the defense was pretty clean early on,” Criswell said. “I think we are playing solid baseball, even though we are dealing with a lot of injuries. This next week is going to be interesting.”
Post Falls was supposed to resume suspended games vs. Lake City today and Coeur d’Alene on Thursday. But since the results would not affect district seeding, those games will not be completed.
FIRST GAME
Lake City 530 001 4 — 13 15 2
Coeur d’Alene 200 000 4 — 6 9 3
Tanner Franklin, Aven Adams (7) and Avrey Cherry; Will Beckenhauer, Dylan Cook (2), Kai Wheeler (7) and Hunter Chambers.
HITS: LC — Pierce, Johnson 3, Usdrowski 2, Cherry 2, Franklin, Moore, Everson 3. Cd’A — Voorhees, Helms, Coey 3, Fenter, Robertson, Chambers 2, Hackett. 2B — Johnson, Fenter. 3B — Coey.
SECOND GAME
Lake City 013 201 0 — 7 12 3
Coeur d’Alene 010 311 2 — 8 7 1
2 out when winning run scored.
Maverick Lanigan, Aven Adams (4), Travis Usdrowski (5), Jack Pierce (6) and Avrey Cherry; Bam Fenter, Tyler Voorhees (3), Kolbe Coey (6) and Hunter Chambers, Colten Nordman (5).
HITS: LC — Holecek, Pierce 2, Johnson, Usdrowski 2, Cherry, Mangini 2, Moore 2, Noffke. Cd’A — Helms 2, Coey, Fenter 2, Hackett, Stevens. 2B — Holecek, Moore, Mangini, Johnson, Helms. HR — Coey.
Post Falls 11-9
Lakeland 1-8
POST FALLS — Caleb Jimerson went 2 for 4 with two RBIs and two runs scored, and allowed one hit over three scoreless innings on the mound in the Trojans win in the first game of an IEL doubleheader against the Hawks at Post Falls High.
In the nightcap, Jimerson scored the go-ahead run on a balk in the bottom of the fifth inning as the Trojans picked up the sweep.
Marshall Tomlinson had four hits and Mike O’Connor and Brandon Morrison had two RBIs each in the second game for Post Falls (9-11, 6-8 IEL), which visits Lake City in a 6A Region 1 loser-out game on Friday at 4 p.m.
“We came out hitting the ball really and it was a solid all-around first game,” Post Falls coach Kurt Reese said. “It was rough getting it going in the second game. Overall, Marshall really carried us in the second game. Lakeland played hard and it was a good little battle. They’ve got a lot of good, young players.”
Nate Bevacqua went 2 for 4 with three RBIs in the second game for Lakeland (5-17, 3-15), which opens the 5A Region 1 tournament on Tuesday.
FIRST GAME
Lakeland 000 10 — 1 2 0
Post Falls 406 01 — 11 8 2
Game called with 0 out in bottom of 5th inning due to 10-run rule.
Jake Jovick, Braxton Lukey (3), Jacob Holte (4) and Nate Bevacqua; Caleb Jimerson, Caden Perkins (4), James Morast (5) and Marshall Tomlinson.
HITS: LL — Tamangi, Lund. PF — Jimerson 2, Tomlinson, Cooley, O’Connor, Reese, Perkins, Wienker. 2B — Tomlinson.
SECOND GAME
Lakeland 050 210 — 8 6 1
Post Falls 231 21x — 9 13 4
Brody Weitz, Landon Puzio (4) and Nate Bevacqua; Ian Ingle, Gavin Wienker (2), Marshall Tomlinson (4) and Brandon Felix.
HITS: LL — Tamangi, Bevacqua 2, Avriett, Shanley, Caywood. PF — Jimerson, Tomlinson 4, Cooley, O’Connor 2, Reese, Felix 2, Wienker, Kearney. 2B — Shanley, Bevacqua, Felix, Tomlinson.
Kellogg 12-14
St. Maries 1-4
OSBURN — Alex Cassidy and Maddux Allen scored three runs each for the Wildcats, who beat the Lumberjacks in the conclusion of Saturday’s game that was suspended due to rain in the fifth inning.
In the regularly scheduled game, Henry Larson and Preston Grasscamp drove in two runs each for the Wildcats, who improved to 3-12, 3-7 in the Central Idaho League with a win over the Lumberjacks (3-15, 2-7).
Larson, Kaden Keller and Grasscamp scored three runs each for Kellogg, which is scheduled to host Orofino in a doubleheader on Friday at Morehouse Field in Osburn.
St. Maries travels to Grangeville in a doubleheader on Friday.
KELLOGG 12, ST. MARIES 1, COMPLETION OF SUSPENDED GAME
Kellogg 302 034 — 12 12 1
St. Maries 000 001 — 1 5 2
Game called after 6 innings due to 10-run rule.
Talon Clark, Kaden Keller (6) and Preston Grasscamp; Peyton Lingo, Amado Stewart (4), Kaiden Morris (5) and Amado Stewart, Kris Brusseau (2).
HITS: Kell — Larson, Keller 2, Grasscamp, Cassidy 3, Allen, VanVleet, Lindcoat 2, Brown. SM — Morris 2, Holmes, K. Brusseau, Lingo. 2B — none. 3B — none.
KELLOGG 14, ST. MARIES 4, 5 INN.
St. Maries 310 00 — 4 8 1
Kellogg 542 12 — 14 12 0
Game called with two outs in bottom of 5th inning due to 10-run rule.
Jordan Hammons, Peyton Lingo (2) and Amado Stewart, Hunter Wilborn (4); Preston Grasscamp, Talon Clark (2), Kaden Keller (5) and Maddux Allen.
HITS: SM — Morris 2, Lingo 2, Holmes, Hammons 2, K. Brusseau. Kell — Larson 3, Keller 2, Grasscamp 3, VanVleet, Lindcoat 2, Rose. 2B — Larson, Grasscamp 2.