LEGION BASEBALL: Lums open with two wins at Spokane/Cd'A wood bat tourney
COEUR d’ALENE — The Coeur d’Alene Lumbermen “AA” team jumped out to a 5-0 lead after two innings en route to a 6-1 victory over the Changeup Baseball Archers Red 18U for its second win of the day to open the Spokane/Coeur d’Alene Wood Bat Classic on Thursday at Thorco Field.
Earlier, the Lums beat the Bitteroot Red Sox of Hamilton, Mont., 6-2.
In the second game, Kyle Johnson hit an RBI single in the second inning, and Travis Usdrowski drove in a pair of runs for Coeur d’Alene.
Aven Adams, Tyler Voorhees and Asa Morton teamed to strike out six and scatter three hits for the Lums.
In the first game, Jack Pierce hit a two-run double to highlight a five-run fifth inning that gave Coeur d’Alene the lead. Pierce finished 2 for 4 and scored twice.
Tanner Franklin struck out six, walked none and scattered seven hits in a complete game for the Lums.
Pod play wraps up today, with Coeur d’Alene (18-15) facing the Spokane Expos (Williamson) at 4:30 p.m. and the Edmonton Expos at 7, both at Thorco Field.
COEUR d’ALENE 6, BITTEROOT 2
Bitteroot 200 000 0 — 2 7 2
Coeur d’Alene 000 150 x — 6 8 3
Cash Lawrence, Hunter Harrness (6) and Elijah McNair-Neal; Tanner Franklin and Hunter Avriett.
HITS: Bit — Lawrence, Widmer, Lubke, Tadvick, Earp 2, McNair-Neal. Cd’A — Holecek, Johnson, Usdrowski, Pierce 2, Hunter, Cook 2. 2B — Earp, Cook, Holecek, Pierce.
COEUR d’ALENE 6, CBA RED 1
Coeur d’Alene 320 100 0 — 6 4 1
CBA 000 001 0 — 1 3 1
Aven Adams, Tyler Voorhees (4), Asa Morton (5) and Tanner Franklin; Jayden Jensen, Jake Pawlyk (5) and Jax Zingle.
HITS: Cd’A — Holecek, Johnson 2, Hunter. CBA — Russell, Perin, English. 2B — Hunter, Perin.
Northern Lakes splits on first day of tourney
SPOKANE — Eric Wylie went 3 for 3 with five RBIs as the Northern Lakes Mountaineers beat the Billings Bandits 13-3 in their first game in the Junior Division of the Spokane/Coeur d’Alene Wood Bat Classic at Mead High.
In their second game, the Mountaineers fell 4-3 to the Yakima Valley Peppers 17U, also at Mead.
In the first game, Wylie had an RBI single in the first inning, and two-run singles in the third and fifth innings.
Tadhg Ellwood struck out nine in 4.2 innings for Northern Lakes. Griffin Tamagni went 2 for 3 with an RBI and four runs scored.
Against the Peppers, Ethan Pecor went 2 for 4 with an RBI single in the first inning for the Mountaineers.
Northern Lakes (19-4) wraps up play at the Mead pod today with games against the 49ers AA at 1 p.m. and the Mead Panthers at 6,
NORTHERN LAKES 13, BILLINGS 3
Northern Lakes 103 27 — 13 11 2
Billings 010 20 — 3 3 7
Game called after 5 innings due to 10-run rule.
Tadhg Ellwood, Jake Larcher (5) and Ethan Pecor; Loden Eastlick, Bradyn Eaton (3), Esai Flores (5) and Jayden Ott.
HITS: NL — Tamagni 2, Pecor 2, Ellwood, Wylie 3, Brennan 2, Van Tassel. Bill — Flores, Robinson, Fox. 2B — Tamagni, Pecor, Ellwood, Flores.
YAKIMA VALLEY 4, NORTHERN LAKES 3
Yakima Valley 210 100 0 — 4 11 4
Northern Lakes 110 010 0 — 3 7 3
Ryker Muir and Andrew McDaniel; Ryker Brennan and Jace Cooksey.
HITS: Yak — Orejudos 3, Cerna, Jansen 2, McDaniel 2, Scheibner 2, Jansen. NL — Tamagni, Pecor 2, Taylor, Ellwood, Brennan, Lenz. 2B — Jansen.