EAST WENATCHEE - Warden's baseball team is playing the right kind of baseball and the most appropriate of times.

Yesterday, the Cougars made cat food of the Kittitas Coyotes as they rolled to a 14-7 District 5/6 championship title and will enter the Class 2B state tournament as a number one seed out of the region.

They play a yet to be determined opponent at 10 a.m. in Spokane at Shadle Park High School.

Marcelo Pruneda went 6.1 innings, scattering six hits and striking out seven to earn the win for Warden (!8-3), who pulled away from a narrow 6-5 deficit after three innings to take control. Manuel Amezola recorded the final two Kittitas outs to earn the save for the Cougars.

The Cougars scored four times in their half of the sixth inning and cemented the win with three more runs in the seventh. 

"I was really proud of our pitching and defense," Warden head coach Dan Caballaero said. "We are really finding our stride and hitting the ball really well right now as a team. Batters one through nine we can have any of these young men put the ball in play."

Warden led 6-0 after a four-run third inning that saw the emergence of freshman Louie Reyes who hit a two-out, two-run single for Warden.

The Cougars' offense had five different batters record two hits - Derek Pruneda, Ty Jesse, Jacob Yamane, Garritt Marks, and Cruz Pruneda.