COEUR d'ALENE -- The Coeur d'Alene High baseball team had to forfeit Tuesday's 5A Region 1 championship game victory over Lewiston for using a pitcher in too many innings in consecutive days.

The pitcher threw the final inning of the Vikings' victory over Lake City in the regional opener on Monday, then pitched seven innings in Coeur d'Alene's win at Lewiston the following day.

Idaho High School Activities Association rules state, in this instance, a player cannot pitch more than seven innings in two games on two consecutive days.

"He (Coeur d'Alene High baseball coach Nick Rook) thought it was for nine innings, not seven," Coeur d'Alene High athletic director Todd Gilkey said. "He misinterpreted the rule. It was unintentional, but it was a rules violation."

Gilkey said the Vikings appealed the ruling to the District 2 Board of Control, as the game was held in District 2. Someone from Lewiston, Gilkey said, initially notified the IHSAA of the possible rules violation.

The forfeiture means Lewiston, which won the 5A Inland Empire League title, is awarded the regional title, and takes the top seed from Region 1 to next week's state tournament in Boise. Coeur d'Alene, the No. 2 seed to regionals, will play host to No. 3 seed Lake City today at 4 in a loser-out game. Originally, Lake City was to have traveled to Lewiston today for a loser-out game.

"Unfortunately, it's 100 percent my fault," Rook said. "I'm extremely disappointed I misinterpreted the rule. I apologize to our program, and our kids and all our supporters."

Rook suggested that pitch counts, rather than innings pitched, would be a better way to control how much a pitcher is allowed to throw in a designated amount of time.

"At no time, was our player at risk," Rook said. "Unlike Little League rules or other summer baseball rules, the pitching rules for high school apply to innings pitched, not number of pitches thrown.

"For example, a player could throw 200 pitches in two days -- 50 pitches in one inning on Monday, throw another 150 pitches on Tuesday in six innings and be completely within the rules in a total of seven innings. But he can't throw 119 pitches in two days -- 11 pitches on Monday in one inning and 108 pitches in seven innings on Tuesday totaling eight innings.

"Nonetheless, I misunderstood the rule and this is my fault."

Meanwhile, a member of Coeur d'Alene's boys golf team was disqualified for a couple of rules violations -- turning in an incorrect scorecard, and failing to sign his scorecard -- after Monday's 5A Region 1 golf tournament at Avondale Golf Club in Hayden Lake.

Coeur d'Alene golf coach Bryan Duncan said there was a dispute during the round over the player's score on a hole -- turns out, he had misapplied the number of penalty strokes he should have received on the hole, and he should have had an 8 instead of a 7.

The score was later adjusted after the round to an 8, leaving Coeur d'Alene and Lake City tied for the final team berth to state, and the teams went out for the playoff.

But it was discovered after the playoff that the player had already turned in the scorecard without signing it, and with the lower score -- both violations.

Coeur d'Alene DQ'd the player, his score was thrown out, a higher score from another player that was originally thrown out had to be counted (teams play five players, and count the top four scores), and Lake City ended up finishing two strokes ahead of the Vikings to earn the third qualifying berth to state.