TRAIL, British Columbia - Kaleb DeHaas drove in two runs with a double in the bottom of the eighth inning as the Coeur d'Alene Lumbermen defeated the Prairie Cardinals 10-7 on Saturday at Butler Park to qualify for the Class AA state tournament starting Wednesday at Skip Walker Field in Twin Falls.

With a second chance on Saturday night, Prairie beat Lewis-Clark 8-6 to qualify for state for the first time since 2003.

Coeur d'Alene (38-19) plays Prairie (24-22) today at 11 a.m. in the championship game of the Area A (district) tournament for seeding to state. An if-necessary title game would be played at 2:30 p.m.

Lewis-Clark defeated the host Trail Jays 6-4 in a loser-out game earlier Saturday.

Coeur d'Alene 10, Prairie 7: Zack Reeder led off the game with a double as Prairie jumped out to a 3-0 lead after two walks and two errors by Coeur d'Alene in the inning. Derek Tymesen had a two-run double in the sixth for Prairie to pull within 8-5.

Prairie got to within 8-7 on RBI singles by Eric Cooper and Darnell Metcalf, but Coeur d'Alene's Jason Pattis pitched a scoreless ninth to earn the save.

"Colin pitched well to a small strike zone," Coeur d'Alene coach Lloyd Duman said. "The team responded well to the challenge of an early deficit."

Grant Curtis had three doubles and Joe Roletto, Chad Nyquist and DeHaas had two hits apiece for Coeur d’Alene.

COEUR d’ALENE 10, PRAIRIE 7

Prairie 300 002 020 — 7 9 3

Coeur d’Alene 602 000 02x — 10 12 3

Cody Vandever and Darnell Metcalf; Colin Comack, Jason Pattis (9) and Kaleb DeHaas. W — Comack. L — Vandever. S — Pattis.

HITS: Pra — Reeder Tymesen, Metcalf, Cooper, Mobeck 2, Schwalbach, Burnett. Cd’A — Roletto 2, Pattis, Curtis 3, Hoffman, Nyquist 2, DeHaas 2, Cabeza. 2B — Reeder, Tymesen, Roletto, Curtis 3, Nyquist, DeHaas, Cabeza.

Prairie 8, Lewis-Clark 6: Derek Tymesen hit a two-run home run with two outs in the eighth inning to break a 6-all tie and give Prairie the lead for good as the Cardinals qualified for state for the first time in eight seasons.

“We’re excited,” said second-year Prairie coach Dustin Frank, who played on the last Cardinals team to qualify for state. “Our kids definitely deserved it. They learned a lot from last year and after a lot of hard work this year, it finally paid off.

“We definitely deserved it,” Frank added. “Lewis-Clark and Coeur d’Alene did too. I’m looking forward to going down to show what we’ve got.”

Tyler Burnett hit a two-run home run in the fourth inning and Daniel Mobeck struck out seven for Prairie (24-22).

PRAIRIE 8, LEWIS-CLARK 6

Prairie 012 210 020 — 8 14 0

Lewis-Clark 200 010 300 — 6 9 0

Daniel Mobeck, Zack Reeder (7) and Darnell Metcalf; Bush, Willey (5), Kerns (9) and Smith. W — Reeder. L — Wiley.

HITS: Pra — Reeder, Tymesen, Metcalf 2, Cooper, South, Givens 2, Schwalbach, Vandever, Burnett 2. LC — Presby, Roth, Knigge 3, Fuller 2, Smith 2. 2B — Metcalf, Cooper, South, Givens, Presby, Roth, Knigge, Smith 2. HR — Tymesen, Burnett, Knigge.

CLASS AA AREA A (DISTRICT) TOURNAMENT

At Butler Park, Trail

Saturday

Coeur d’Alene 10, Prairie 7

Lewis-Clark 6, Trail 4, loser out

Prairie 8, Lewis-Clark 6, loser out, winner to state

Sunday

Game 10 — Coeur d’Alene (38-19) vs. Prairie (24-22), 11 a.m., championship

Game 11 — If-necessary championship game if Prairie wins Game 10

Loggers solve Blue Devils, advance to state A tourney

OSBURN — Sean Sutton hit a two-run home run and drove in three runs as the Coeur d’Alene Loggers defeated the Moscow Blue Devils 10-2 in a loser-out game in the Class A Area A (district) tournament at Morehouse Field to qualify for the state tournament at Treasure Valley Community College starting on Thursday.

“We were 0-5 against them coming into the loser-out game,” Coeur d’Alene coach Tom Barlow said. “We finished the season 1-5 against Moscow, but that one counted pretty big.”

Leif Krapas struck out five in a complete game for Coeur d’Alene, which eliminated Prairie earlier on Saturday with a 7-4 win.

“It feels great after being 10-runned by them earlier in the tournament,” said Barlow of beating Moscow. “To have the kids play the way they did was crazy. They showed they wanted it more than them. Leif was lights out on the mound and we banged out 16 hits. I couldn’t have asked for more.”

Coeur d’Alene (31-21) will face Lewis-Clark in the championship game today at 1 p.m. in Osburn. Both teams qualify for state.

Coeur d’Alene 7, Prairie 4: The Loggers drew nine walks and capitilized on three Cardinal errors to remain alive in the tournament.

John Galloway had two hits for Prairie.

COEUR d’ALENE 7, PRAIRIE 4

Prairie 200 100 1 — 4 8 3

Coeur d’Alene 012 221 x — 8 4 1

Austin Allen and James Prockish; Sean Sutton, Kyle Parson (5) and Kolby DeHaas. W — Sutton. L — Allen.

HITS: Pra — Galloway 2, Prockish, Johnson, Charbonneau, Bumgarner, Smith, Allen. Cd’A — Fortis, Osmanski 2, Burgess. 2B — Osmanski.

COEUR d’ALENE 10, MOSCOW 2

Cd’A 330 112 0 — 10 16 2

Moscow 000 002 0 — 2 6 2

Leif Krapas and Kolby DeHaas; Garrett Jones, Austin Jones (2) and Drew Papineau. W — Krapas. L — G. Jones.

HITS: Cd’A — Robbins 2, O’Hagen, Se. Sutton 2, Fortis, D. Sutton 3, DeHaas, Osmanski 2, Nyquist 2, Burgess 3. Mos — Martin, Papineau 2, O’Sullivan, Paul, Jones. 2B — Nyquist. HR — Sutton.

CLASS A AREA A (DISTRICT) TOURNAMENT

At Morehouse Field, Osburn

Saturday

Coeur d’Alene 7, Prairie 4 (loser out)

Coeur d’Alene 10, Moscow 2 (loser out, winner to state)

Sunday

Game 10 — Lewis-Clark vs. Coeur d’Alene, 1 p.m. (championship; both to state)

Game 11 — If-necessary game if Coeur d’Alene wins Game 10