A four-run eighth inning helped the Coeur d’Alene (Idaho) Lumbermen rally to an 11-8 win over the Kalispell Lakers in a nonconference American Legion baseball game at Griffin Field Friday.

Kalispell (26-23) led 8-7 after seven innings, but four straight Lumbermen reached base to start the eighth, including Brett Robbins, whose RBI-single gave Coeur d’Alene (15-25) its first lead since the second inning. Lumbermen shortstop Gibson Green homered to left field two batters later to tack on two more runs.

“We left it over the plate instead of out and (Green) hit a mistake,” Lakers coach Ryan Malmin said.

Malmin also lamented a missed opportunity earlier in the inning. With a runner on second and no outs, Coeur d’Alene’s Colby Kennedy placed a bunt to the third base side of the pitcher’s mound. Charging first baseman Dillon Eaves fielded the bunt, but didn’t have a play at at third and no one was covering first.

Lakers starter Hank McLeod was the losing pitcher, giving up nine runs on eight hits and five walks, despite racking up 11 strikeouts. Luke LaFontaine relieved McLeod with two on in the eighth and allowed both runners to score before coughing up Green’s two-run homer.

Green, Colton Gray and Joe Roletto each tallied three hits for the Lumbermen, who had 14 total.

The Lakers finished with 13 hits — led by two from Chris Combs, Sean O’Connell, Chris Sibley Robert Reaser and Justin Wallace — but they had just three hits after the fourth inning. They tagged Coeur d’Alene starting pitcher Jacob Gonzales for six runs on seven hits in the first three innings, then Reaser cracked a two-run triple down the right field line in the fourth against reliever Roletto, but Roletto held Kalispell scoreless the next four innings to earn the win. Elliott Sparks pitched a scoreless ninth inning to earn the save.

“I would say it’s just an adjustment (Roletto) made,” O’Connell said. “He was locating his pitches pretty well and had good off-speed stuff.”

Coeur d’Alene got off to a fast start with five runs in the first inning, but the Lakers answered with five in the bottom half of the frame. McLeod settled down toward the end of the second and retired nine in a row before Devin Kluss reached on an error in the fifth.

“After a slow first I thought Hank settled down and did a nice job for us on the mound,” Malmin said.

The Lakers travel to Missoula for a conference tilt with the Mavericks on Monday.

Coeur d’Alene 510 001 040 — 11 14 1

Kalispell 501 200 000 — 8 13 1

Jacob Gonzales, Joe Roletto (4), Elliott Sparks (9) and Colton Gray. Hank McLeod, Luke LaFontaine (8), Robert Reaser (9) and Dillon Matteson, Adam Frandsen (8). W - Roletto. L - McLeod. S - Sparks.

COEUR D’ALENE - Roletto 3-5, Brett Robbins 2-4, Devin Kluss 0-3, Gibson Green 3-4, Ethan Brandt 0-2, Sparks 0-2, Mike Hicks 1-4, Shawn Montee 0-5, Gray 3-5, Derek Griffin 0-2, Colby Kennedy 2-2.

KALISPELL - Chris Combs 2-5, Charlie Obermiller 1-4, Dillon Eaves 1-4, Sean O’Connell 2-4, Dillon Matteson 1-5, Reaser 2-4, Chris Sibley 2-5, Justin Wallace 2-4, Colton Wiley 0-3, Adam Frandsen 0-1.

2B - Gray, Roletto; Combs, Sibley. 3B - Reaser. HR - Green. RBIs - Gray 3, Green 3, Robbins 2, Hicks; Sibley 4, Reaser 2, Wallace, O’Connell.