BELLEVUE, Wash. - Elliott Sparks scattered seven hits in the first game, and the Coeur d'Alene Lumbermen split a pair of games at the Baden Northwest Invitational on Friday at Newport High.

Sparks struck out four and walked one to improve to 8-0 for Cd'A (26-14), in a 10-1, five-inning win over Lightning Baseball from Denver.

Coeur d'Alene later lost 6-1 to the Seattle Select.

"Elliott got himself to where he was at two summers ago," Lumbermen coach Zach Clanton said. "He became a very crucial part of our pitching staff. We can hand him the ball in any given situation. It's easier to pitch when you get good run support. He did a really good job in getting us the complete game."

Gibson Green, returning from a torn hamstring, went 3 for 3 with three runs and two RBIs for the Lums.

"We were without Gibson for a month," Clanton said. "He's our best hitter, he's our vocal leader. When he's back, it's been a totally different lineup."

Cody Garza, Devin Kluss and Dominic Conigliaro each had two RBIs.

In the loss, Conigliaro had the lone RBI on a single in the first inning, but Seattle roared back with five runs in the top of the third inning.

Coeur d'Alene plays the Spokane Expos today in pool play at Bannerwood Park on the Seattle University campus. The Lums are 1-3 in pool play.

COEUR d'ALENE 10, Lightning Baseball 1, 5 inn.

Coeur d'Alene 340 21 - 10 11 0

Lightning 100 00 - 1 7 2

Elliott Sparks and Grant Wade; Scott and Grattino. W - Sparks (8-0). L - Grattino.

HITS: Cd'A - Vaudreuil 2, Garza 2, Green 3, Kluss 2, Conigliaro, Wade. Lightning - Dudlen, Neider 2, Cope 2, Williams, Kloppenburg. 2B - Vaudreuil, Garza, Green.

Seattle Select 6, COEUR d'ALENE 1

Seattle 005 000 1 - 6 8 2

Coeur d'Alene 100 000 0 - 1 5 3

West and Stansberry; Sam Slusser and Grant Wade. W - West. L - Slusser.

HITS: Seattle - Harieta 2, Pate, Nary 3, Simone, Dan. Cd'A - Green, Conigliaro 2, Gabrielson 2. 2B - Green, Gabrielson, Harieta.

Lums 16U win

district finals opener

COEUR d'ALENE - Brady Thompson pitched a two-hitter and struck out 12 as the Coeur d'Alene Lumbermen 16-and-under squad beat Sandpoint 6-0 in the first game of the Spokane Legion Single-A league district championship at Thorco Field.

Game 2 in the best-of-3 series is today at 1 p.m. in Sandpoint.

Jack Bloom and Justin Bates each went 2 for 3 for the Lums, and Micheal Dooley doubled and drove in two runs.

LATE THURSDAY

Lewis-Clark 10-14

Prairie 0-5

POST FALLS - Preston Benson's two-run home run in the fourth inning of the second game for Prairie was the first of his career.

Prairie will be the fourth seed to next week's four-team class AA Area A (district) tournament at Ramsey Park. The Cardinals open the tourney Thursday at 5 p.m. vs. No. 1 seed Lewis-Clark. No. 2 seed Coeur d'Alene faces No. 3 seed Northern Lakes on Thursday at 8 p.m.

FIRST GAME

Lewis-Clark 071 11 - 10 10 1

Prairie 000 00 - 0 2 2

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

Tyler Gay and Cole Grijalva; Jerrett Plunkett, Gage Wark (2), Brock Zeller (5) and Sam Schulze. W - Gay. L - Plunkett (0-3).

HITS: Lew - Jessup 2, Murphy 2, Moore, White 3, Jones, Grijalva. Pra - Porter, Schulze. 2B - Porter. HR - White (2).

SECOND GAME

Lewis-Clark 105 043 1 - 14 9 3

Prairie 210 200 0 - 5 9 10

Kolt Olson, Logan Chase (4) and Scott Jessup; Sam Schulze, Jared Porter (3), Dalton Lozier (5), Brock Zeller (7) and Jerrett Plunkett. W - Chase. L - Schulze (0-7).

HITS: Lew - Jessup, Murphy, Moore 2, White, Jones, Woods, Stamper 2. Pra - Bailey, Lebsock, Busch 2, Plunkett 2, Benson, Wark 2. 2B - Woods, Stamper, Bailey, Lebsock. HR - Moore, Benson.