COEUR d'ALENE - One day, Coeur d'Alene High junior Kolby DeHaas might end up playing college baseball like his brother.

Thanks to his walk-off home run in the second game of Saturday's 5A Inland Empire League doubleheader against the Lewiston Bengals, he's already got one up on big brother.

After losing the first game 9-2 to Lewiston, Coeur d'Alene battled back to take game two on DeHaas' first home run of the season, sailing over the left field fence with one out in a 4-3 win at Ted Page Field.

"After that second pitch, I'm not usually a pull hitter, but I hit the ball foul and knew I had his timing down," DeHaas said. "It feels good to get a win, but I wish we could have gone through with a sweep and make things a little easier on ourselves next week."

With the split, Lewiston (16-4, 7-3 5A IEL) still leads Coeur d'Alene (14-5, 6-3) by one-half game, with the Bengals having a doubleheader Tuesday against visiting Post Falls remaining in league. Coeur d’Alene travels to Lake City, then plays Post Falls twice to wrap league play. With wins in all three remaining league games, Coeur d’Alene will be the No. 1 seed at the 5A Region 1 tournament.

Lewiston and Coeur d’Alene split their four games in league play. The second tiebreaker for the league title comes down to how each fared against the next team in the standings — Lake City entering Saturday.

Coeur d’Alene has won all three against Lake City, with Lewiston going 3-1 against the Timberwolves.

“We’ve got to take it game by game,” Coeur d’Alene coach Nick Rook said. “Obviously we’ll need to focus on Tuesday and let that take care of itself. It’s good to be in a position to control your own destiny, but we just need to continue to compete and see where the chips fall.”

DeHaas’ older brother Kaleb is a sophomore third baseman at NCAA Division II Northwest Nazarene University in Nampa.

“He’s been down there hitting bombs this year, so it’s good to finally get one,” DeHaas said. “He never had a walk-off, so it was good to get one up on him.”

“It was a great job by Kolby getting a pitch and putting it over the fence,” Rook said. “Our kids are learning to compete more and more. They did a good job, and it’s good to get the split. Now, next week is paramount for our season.”

John Fuller and Kyler Brooks had four hits each in the first game for the Bengals, who scored seven runs in the first four innings off Viking starter Sean Sutton. Lewiston starter Tyler Charlo struck out five over seven innings.

The loss was Coeur d’Alene’s first at home since the 2010 season.

“Credit to Charlo, he threw well,” Rook said. “Sean’s thrown well all year and that’s his first outing where he’s been hit all around. You’ve got to score more than two runs to win a high school game, but they showed up to hit that first game.”

Lewiston finished with 17 hits in the first game, compared to four in the second game.

“We’ve had a few games lately like the first game at Lake City (won 18-14 Wednesday) and today where we just seem to be a real contagious team and when someone starts hitting, other guys are hitting,” Lewiston coach Tom Grunenfelder said. “Then, if a few guys aren’t hitting, then nobody is, like the second game.”

Lewiston committed eight errors in the second game, three coming in the fifth inning to allow Coeur d’Alene to take a 3-1 lead.

“Our pitching was really good today,” Grunenfelder said. “Outside of that inning, I thought we played 16 innings of really good defense.”

FIRST GAME

Lewiston 204 101 1 — 9 17 2

Coeur d’Alene 110 000 0 — 2 8 3

Tyler Charlo and Jake Ralstin; Sean Sutton, Logan Brastrup (5) and Kolby DeHaas. W — Charlo (5-0). L — Sutton (7-2).

HITS: Lew — Charlo 3, Fuller 4, Brooks 4, Martin 2, Ralstin, Ewing, Hasenoehrl, Meacham. Cd’A — Barrowcliff, Green, Pereira 2, DeHaas, Nyquist. 2B — Fuller, Brooks, Martin, Ewing, Pereira. 3B — Green.

SECOND GAME

Lewiston 000 010 200 0 — 3 4 8

Coeur d’Alene 000 030 000 1 — 4 6 1

One out when winning run scored.

Kyler Brooks, Bryce Wakefield (10) and Jake Ralstin; Devin Kluss, Brent Wingham (8), Levi Pereira (8) and Kolby DeHaas. W — Pereira (1-0). L — Wakefield (0-2).

HITS: Lew — Brooks 3, Reynolds. Cd’A — Barrowcliff, DeHaas, Nyquist 3, Plum. 3B — Brooks 3. HR — DeHaas (1).