COEUR d'ALENE - Pete Hoffman hit a three-run double in the first inning and Colin Comack had a two-run single in the sixth inning as the Coeur d'Alene Lumbermen beat the Twin City Titans 5-1 on Saturday at McEuen Field to advance to the semifinals of the Best of the Northwest tournament.

Coeur d'Alene (17-2) will face the Spokane Dodgers today at 1 p.m. at Central Valley High. Prairie will face Yard Academy in the other semifinal.

"It basically turned into a pitcher's duel after the fourth inning," Coeur d'Alene coach Lloyd Duman said. "They brought in their ace and he was popping some good speed. We brought in Colin and there wasn't many baserunners after that. It was an exciting game when it became a pitcher's duel. Both pitchers were throwing really well."

Earlier, Chad Nyquist hit a three-run double in the fourth inning to lead the Lumbermen past the Blaze of Portland 5-1 in a pool play game at McEuen Field.

The game was called on Friday in the bottom of the first inning due to rain and concluded with Lumbermen pitcher Grant Curtis striking out seven in a complete-game win.

"Grant was in command from the get-go," Duman said. "It was nice because we weren't sure how that was going to go. Both pitched just one inning the night before, and you don't know if their arm is going to come back. Grant's did."

On Friday, Coeur d'Alene lost 11-2 to Athletes in Motion. The Lums went 3-1 in pool play and finished second in their pool.

COEUR d'ALENE 5, BLAZE 1

Coeur d'Alene 020 300 0 - 5 8 2

Portland Blaze 000 001 0 - 1 4 3

Grant Curtis and Kolby DeHaas; Campos, Weiss (5) and Fultz. W - Curtis (3-1). L - Campos.

HITS: Cd'A - Roletto, Cabeza, Comack 2, C. Nyquist 2, N. Nyquist, DeHaas. BL - McKean, Sablan, Fultz, Aprilado. 2B - Cabeza, C. Nyquist, DeHaas.

COEUR d'ALENE 5, TWIN CITY 1

Twin City 001 000 0 - 1 4 0

Coeur d'Alene 300 002 0 - 5 5 0

Klute, Hilty (4) and Weitz; Jacob Gonzalas, Colin Comack (6) and Joe Roletto. W - Gonzalas (3-0). L - Klute. S - Comack (2).

HITS: TC - Morris, Arahe, Weitz, Johnson. Cd'A - Cabeza, Comack, Hoffman, Curtis, O'Hagan. 2B - Morris, Arahe, Weitz, Hoffman.

Prairie 10, Lewis-Clark 2: Eric Cooper went 3 for 3 with three RBIs and Jeremy McKinney and Taylor Valente hit solo home runs to lead the Prairie Cardinals past the Lewis-Clark Twins in the Best of the Northwest tournament at McEuen Field.

Prairie (11-7) will face Yard Academy of Portland in a semifinal game today at 10 a.m. at Central Valley High in Spokane.

McKinney homered leading off the fourth inning and Valente's homer ended the game in the fifth due to the tournament's 8-run rule.

"Eric had two clutch hits for us today," Prairie coach Dustin Frank said. "We just played good defense and didn't give them a lot of free bases."

Lewis-Clark 000 02 - 2 5 2

Prairie 112 51 - 10 11 2

Game called in 5th inning due to 8-run rule.

Kracke, Bush (3) and Fuller; Tyler Shaffer and Zack Reeder. W - Shaffer (2-2). L - Kracke.

HITS: LC - J. Fuller 2, R. Fuller, Smith 2. Pra - Givens, Metcalf, Cooper 3, Collier, Schwalbach, McKinney, Valente 2, Charbenneau. 2B - J. Fuller, Cooper. HR - McKinney (1), Valente (1).

Loggers fall at

tournament

WALLA WALLA - Dan Bryant went 1 for 3 with an RBI for the Coeur d'Alene Loggers, who fell to the Pendleton Red Bulls 9-4 in a pool play game on Saturday in the Walla Walla tournament at Walla Walla Community College.

The loss dropped Coeur d'Alene (7-8) to 1-2 in pool play with a game against Walla Walla on Saturday evening. No report was received on that game by press time.

Lakers 10-15

Colville No. 2 6-8

COEUR d'ALENE - Dominic Conigliaro struck out four in four innings in the first game and Brodie Larsen went 3 for 4 with three RBIs in the second game as the Coeur d'Alene Lakers swept a Spokane Junior Northern "A" League doubleheader against the Colville No. 2 Cardinals at Lake City High.

Emias Mularski went 2 for 2 with a ground-rule double and Trevor Brown had a two-run double in the first game and Cody Garza went 2 for 4 with two RBIs in the second game for Coeur d'Alene (5-2), which hosts the Colville No. 1 today in a doubleheader starting at 11 a.m. at Lake City.

Lumberjacks 4-9

Colville No. 1 2-3

COEUR d'ALENE - Connor Cardinel and Nathaniel English combined to strike out six in the first game and Brendan Delgado struck out five in the second game as the Lumberjacks swept a Spokane Junior Northern "A" League doubleheader against the Colville No. 1 team at Canfield Middle School.

In the first game, Elliot Sparks, Clayton Carter and Cardinel each had a hit and an RBI for Coeur d'Alene.

Sparks drove in three runs in the second game and Jeremy Hartin had two hits and two RBIs for Coeur d'Alene (14-3, 11-0), which hosts Colville No. 2 in a doubleheader today at 11 a.m. at Croffoot Park.