SANDPOINT - It was a softball game with a football score, as Lakeland battered Sandpoint 12-8 and 27-14 in a 4A Inland Empire League softball doubleheader opener on Saturday at Sandpoint Middle School.

"All we needed was two touchdowns and we would have won it," joked Bulldogs head coach Derek Dickinson after the second game.

Brooke Leatham led the Lakeland offense with five hits and eight runs scored on the day, while Kari Prockish finished with six hits and two wins on the mound, as the Hawks (6-5, 2-0 4A IEL) were able to string together a lot of hits and capitalized on a handful of Bulldog errors.

Sandpoint (2-9, 0-2) led 2-0 heading into the fourth inning of game one, before things began to fall apart. Led by Topi Elsfelder's four hits, Sandpoint was able to produce plenty of offense, including banging out 27 hits on the day, but had trouble putting up zeroes on the scoreboard defensively.

"Lakeland got the timing down on our pitchers and put the barrel on the ball, hit some line drives," said Dickinson. "We let the first game slip away. We scored 14 runs, which feels good, and we hit one through nine. Tope is coming around."

Sandpoint is at Moscow on Tuesday.

Lakeland hosts Coeur d'Alene on Thursday.

FIRST GAME

Lakeland 000 504 3 - 12 14 1

Sandpoint 011 104 1 - 8 11 3

Kari Prockish and Tifani Schorzman; Lucinda Calvert and Sam Holland. W - Prockish. L - Calvert (2-7).

HITS: LL - Leatham 2, Prockish 4, Schhorzman 2, Williams 2, Langenderfer 2, Bodak, Vanderhoof. Spt - Buchmiller, L. Calvert, Martin, Holland, Bluemer 2, Elsfelder 2, A. Calvert 2, Sundquist. 2B - Elsfelder, A. Calvert, Sundquist, Prockish.

SECOND GAME

Lakeland 43(10) 28 - 27 17 0

Sandpoint 133 70 - 14 16 5

Game ended in fifth inning due to 10-run rule.

Prockish and Schorzman; Nycole Moreland, L. Calvert (4) and Holland. W - Prockish. L - Moreland (0-1).

HITS: LL - Woolley 2, Leatham 3, Prockish 2, Schorzman 2, Williams 2, Langenderfer, Bodak 2, Llaurdt, Kastning 2. Spt - Buchmiller 2, Bluemer 2, Martin, Elsfelder 2, Holland 2, Sundquist 2, Crabb 3, Moreland 2. 2B - Buchmiller, Bluemer, Woolley 2, Williams, Bodak.

Coeur d'Alene 11-8

Lewiston 0-3

LEWISTON - Sophomore Mariah Montee hit a two-run single in the fifth inning of the second game and was the winning pitcher, but her pep talk earlier in the game might have had the biggest influence as the visiting Vikings went on to sweep the Bengals in 5A Inland Empire League play at Airport Park.

Coeur d'Alene trailed 2-0 after the first inning when Montee adressed her teammates.

"In the second inning we were behind, and you could see their attitude completely change," Coeur d'Alene coach Larry Bieber said. "We were just a little bit in love with ourselves (before that)."

Kayla Albertson's three-run double highlighted a four-run second inning that put the Vikings (8-2, 3-0) ahead to stay.

In the first game, Breana Burke pitched a three-hit shutout with six strikeouts, and Kylie Rasmussen and Analisa Raynor each drove in a pair of runs.

Kayla Albertson had six hits on the day and Brooke Albertson added five for Coeur d'Alene, which travels to Post Falls on Wednesday for a doubleheader.

"We were hitting the ball all over the place," Bieber said. "And (shortstop) Sydni Parker had some great plays in the field."

Lewiston dropped to 5-2, 0-2.

FIRST GAME

Coeur d'Alene 321 50 - 11 13 2

Lewiston 000 00 - 0 3 5

Game called after 5 innings due to 10-run rule.

Breana Burke and Abby Howard; Wiik and Huffaker. W - Burke (5-2). L - Wiik.

HITS: Cd'A - K. Albertson 2, B. Albertson 2, Burke 2, Raynor 2, Smith 2, Howard, Parker, Clark. Lew - Dodge, Vowden, Johnson. 2B - K. Albertson 2, Raynor. 3B - Howard, Burke, Smith.

SECOND GAME

Coeur d'Alene 041 020 0 - 8 10 0

Lewiston 201 000 0 - 3 7 4

Mariah Montee and Bryce Catt; Atwood and Huffaker. W - Montee (3-0). L - Atwood.

HITS: Cd'A - B. Albertson 3, K. Albertson 4, Montee, Smith, Burke. Lew - Wells, Huffaker 3, Dodge, Fuhs, Collins. 2B - B. Albertson, K. Albertson, Huffaker 2. 3B - B. Albertson, Dodge.

Timberlake 21-18

Kellogg 2-8

SPIRIT LAKE - The host Tigers opened Intermountain League with a sweep of the Wildcats.

In the first game, Kellogg walked 21 and hit five batters.

"It was two good league wins," Timberlake coach Mike Menti said. "It was the way you'd want to start the league season out. It was not a great way to win games, but we're happy with the way we pitched and with our defense."

Sophomore Brittany Hibdon earned the win in the first game for the Tigers (4-5, 2-0 IML). She allowed six hits and two runs, finishing with five strikeouts and she walked two.

In the second game, Timberlake junior Katie Malloy went 2 for 2 with three runs scored and two runs batted in.

Kellogg is 1-4, 0-2.

The Tigers play Tuesday against Priest River.

FIRST GAME

Kellogg 001 10 - 2 6 0

Timberlake (12)42 3x - 21 3 0

Game called in 5th inning due to 10-run rule.

Schwartz, Wadsworth (2) and Chambers; Brittany Hibdon and Jamie Lickfold. W - Hibdon (1-3). L - Schwartz.

HITS: Kell - Johnson 2, Zisk, Chambers, Twidt, Margason. TL - Kalar, Hibdon, Carhart. 2B - Johnson, Zisk.

SECOND GAME

Kellogg 000 17 - 8 6 0

Timberlake 412 56 - 18 8 4

Game called in 5th inning due to 10-run rule.

Schwartz and Chambers; Shelby Salois and Jamie Lickfold. W - Salois (2-2). L - Schwartz.

HITS: Kell - Twidt, Zisk, Eixenberger, Schwartz, Chambers, Yergler. TL - Kalar 2, Owen, Malloy, Salois 2, Carhart. 2B - Eixenberger, Kalar, Malloy.

St. Maries 17

Grangeville 7

LEWISTON - Kelsey Auer, Kerstin Auer and Haylee Waddell had three RBIs each as the Lumberjacks rallied from a 6-3 deficit in the fifth inning to beat the Bulldogs in a Central Idaho League game at Airport Park.

"We spread our hits around, but just couldn't get anything going," St. Maries coach Todd Bitterman said. "We went into the game without a whole lot of focus, and that's on me. They were able to hit the ball around a little bit and got some things going, but we finally turned it on in the final two innings."

St. Maries beat Grangeville 35-0 and 22-0 in a doubleheader at Airport Park on Tuesday.

Jaycee McQueen struck out four in relief for St. Maries (6-4, 3-0 CIL), which faces Clearwater Valley on Tuesday in Lewiston.

Grangeville 301 021 - 7 5 3

St. Maries 101 177 - 17 13 1

Game called in 6th inning due to 10-run rule.

Sickels and Brannan; C.J. Scott, Jaycee McQueen (5) and McQueen, Shelby Holder (4). W - McQueen (3-2). L - Sickels.

HITS: Gra - Brannan 2, Walker 2, Daniels. SM - Kel. Auer 3, Ker. Auer, Waddell 2, Scott 3, Cordell 3, McQueen. 2B - Brannan 2, Walker, Scott, Cordell 2. 3B - Kel. Auer, Scott.