POST FALLS - For the AA Prairie Cardinals, defeating Coeur d'Alene means everything.

"We live to beat Coeur d'Alene," Prairie slugger Jesse Marks said.

Unfortunately for the team from Post Falls, Tuesday wasn't very lively.

After getting run over in the first game 12-2, a chance to go home with some of that life came the Cardinal way. The team rallied with four seventh-inning runs in the second game, but fell 10-8 with a runner in scoring position and just one out.

"Whenever we play Prairie," Coeur d'Alene coach Lloyd Duman said, before pausing and nodding. "It's a battle."

Duman said the battles have decreased this summer, however, to which he credits scheduling more tournaments opposite of each other.

"We usually have played them five, six times by now," he said. "But this is just the fourth."

The Lumbermen (13-25, 4-4 North Idaho League) now hold the advantage, according to Prairie coach Dustin Frank, as the teams had split two matchups prior to Tuesday's league doubleheader at Post Falls High.

"I thought we competed, but we didnt get the clutch hit," he said, pointing to the team's three innings in the second game where it left three runners on base. "But we were scrappy.

"We just haven't been able to put a complete seven innings together yet, but we're hoping to a couple weeks from now (when the district tournament begins."

What separated the teams Tuesday?

"They hit the ball, dude," Marks said of Coeur d'Alene - and that was coming from a Prairie batter that had crushed three doubles on the day.

The Lums tallied double-digit hits in both games, and Joe Roletto's solo home run in the first one went the furthest.

The shot was only an insurance run, though, as Coeur d'Alene's 1 though 7 batters each crossed the plate in the first inning, and an eighth run soon thereafter. Devin Kluss, Gibson Green, Michael Hicks, Shawn Montee and Carter Chaffin got the credit with the RBIs.

Prairie (10-26, 2-6) finally got on the board in the fourth with a James Prockish single followed by a Jacob Koski triple. The team got its final run in the sixth, where it nearly avoided the 10-run rule, as Prockish led off with a single and scored on a Marks double.

The Lumbermen tacked on three runs in the top of the sixth on a Brett Robbins double, Kluss single, Green sacrifice fly and Elliott Sparks double.

In Game 2, Coeur d'Alene got off to another hot start, scoring five runs through the first two innings. Green hit a two-RBI single in the first, while Markee, Roletto and Robbins each drove in a run in the second on a triple, double and sac fly, respectively.

Prairie answered with a run in the second, as Marks scored Logan Bruner on a fielder's choice.

Pitching for both teams began to wane as the fourth inning began. Prairie walked three and hit three batters in the fourth and fifth, while Cd'A walked six and hit one.

The base runners opened up scoring opportunities for both teams, as Prairie scored consecutive runs on a hit batter and walk, while the Lums brought in five on a Kluss sac fly, Green double, and a pair of walks.

With Prairie down 10-4 in the bottom of the seventh, Marks led off with a single, before being tagged out on a fielder's choice on Blake Wrotenberry's at bat. The speedy Wrotenberry circled the bases, earning two on an errant pickoff throw from the catcher to first base, before scoring on a passed ball.

Ian Spendlove and Riley Denny drew consecutive walks, before Kris Jackson hit a two-run double and Austin Allen followed with a double of his own.

Dustin Ceballos hit a ball to deep center field that would have tied the game if it went out, before Prairie's momentum-filled inning ended with a strikeout.

Coeur d'Alene plays at the Glacier Twins (Whitefish, Mont.) Thursday and at Kalispell, Mont., on Friday. Prairie plays at the Ephrata (Wash.) tournament beginning Thursday.

FIRST GAME

Coeur d'Alene 801 003 - 12 13 2

Prairie 000 101 - 2 8 1

Game called after 6 innings due to 10-run rule.

Devin Kluss, Derek Griffin (6) and Colton Gray; Riley Denny, Killian Estes (3), Logan Bruner (6) and Treavor Hammell. W - Kluss. L - Riley.

HITS: Cd'A - Robbins 2, Roletto 2, Kluss 2, Green, Gonzales, Hicks, Montee, Sparks, Chaffin 2. Pra - Hansen, Prockish 2, Marks 2, Estes, Denny, Koski. 2B - Sparks, Robbins, Marks 2. 3B - Kluss, Koski. HR - Roletto.

SECOND GAME

Coeur d'Alene 230 320 0 - 10 11 1

Prairie 010 300 4 - 8 7 0

Colby Kennedy, Elliott Sparks (4), Carter Chaffin (6) and Ethan Brandt; Blake Wrotenberry, Jesse Marks (4), Dustin Ceballos (5), Kris Jackson (7) and Logan Bruner. W -Kennedy. L - Wrotenberry.

HITS: Cd'A - Roletto 2, Robbins 2, Kluss, Hicks 2, Green 2, Montee, Kennedy. Pra - Jackson, Allen, Ceballos, Bruner, Marks 2, Denny. 2B - Roletto 2, Kluss, Green, Hicks, Jackson, Allen, Ceballos, Marks. 3B - Montee, Bruner.