COEUR d’ALENE — Two of the area heavyweights, with the title coming down to the final swings.

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“Isn’t that how league titles are supposed to be like?” first-year Lake City coach Mike Criswell said. “It feels like I’ve been in the ring with Mike Tyson.”

Coeur d’Alene senior Bryce Stockton hit a two-run home run in the first inning of the opening, helping lead the Vikings to an 11-6 win. In the nightcap, Owen Mangini had three RBIs, including a two-run double in the seventh as the Timberwolves clinched the league title with an 11-9 win at Ted Page Field on Tuesday.

Bryce Hall and Nolan Christ had two RBIs each for Coeur d’Alene in the first game.

Coeur d'Alene needed to sweep, and win by a total of nine runs, to earn the top seed to regionals.

“Our approaches were great in that first game,” said Coeur d’Alene coach Erik Karns, in his fourth season. “We had a lot of base hits and quality at-bats today.”

Lake City senior Eric Bumbaugh pitched a scoreless sixth and seventh inning in the second game.

“We were definitely better in the second game than the first,” Criswell said. “Coeur d’Alene swung the bats really well and you could tell that was how it was going to be today. It was a battle all day and just exactly what it should have been.”

In Monday’s opening round of the 5A Region 1 tournament, Lake City (17-6, 16-2 IEL) will host fourth-seeded Post Falls (10-13, 8-10) and second-seeded Coeur d’Alene (14-10, 14-4) hosts third-seed Lewiston (13-11, 9-9), both starting at 4 p.m.

“We’re coming together as a group,” Karns said. “We competed in our at-bats and did a good job of answering back. Hats off to Lake City. They competed hard.”

FIRST GAME

Lake City 022 200 0 — 6 10 4

Coeur d’Alene 300 314 x — 11 12 3

Nate Weatherhead, Cooper Reese (6), Karl Schwarzer (6) and Cooper Smith; Harrison Trunkey-Evans, Logan Markowski (2), Aaron Gwaltney (4), Cooper Erickson (5) and Chase Saunders.

HITS: LC — Smith, DuCoeur 3, Dannenberg 2, Newby 2, Cherry, Ross. Cd’A — Hall 3, Karns, Brown 2, Stockton 2, Smart, Christ 3. 2B — Dannenberg, Karns, Christ. HR — Stockton.

SECOND GAME

Lake City 340 100 3 — 11 13 1

Coeur d’Alene 130 320 0 — 9 10 3

AJ Currie, Charlie Dixon (5), Eric Bumbaugh (6) and Joe DuCoeur; Andrew Karns, Aidan Blanco (2), Zeb Blattstein (5), Jesse Brown (7) and Richie Hackett, Chase Saunders (3).

HITS: LC — Smith, Dannenberg, DuCoeur, Stoddard 3, Mangini 3, Usdrowski 2, Bumbaugh, Shepard. Cd’A — Hall, Karns, Brown, Erickson, Smart 2, Hackett, Saunders, Christ. 2B — Mangini, Smith, Bumbaugh, Dannenberg, Karns, Christ, Erickson. 3B — DuCoeur. HR — Mangini.

Lewiston 17-8

Post Falls 0-4

POST FALLS — The host Trojans slipped to the fourth seed in next week’s 5A Region 1 tournament after being swept by the Bengals in the Inland Empire League finale for both programs at Post Falls High.

Post Falls (10-13, 8-10 IEL) will open at Lake City next Monday. Lewiston (13-11, 9-9) will visit second-seeded Coeur d’Alene in the other opening round game.

Senior Chris Ricard hit two home runs, finishing with four RBIs in the first game for the Bengals, who hit five home runs in the first game.

“We just didn’t show up in that first game and Lewiston was ready to play and crushed the ball,” second-year Post Falls coach Kurt Reese said. “You can’t make five errors, walk nine and expect to compete.”

In the nightcap, Gabe Cooley had a two-run single in the bottom of the second inning for Post Falls, which had rallied to cut the deficit to 8-4 in the fifth inning when the game was called due to darkness.

Carson Weeks had a two-run double in the first inning for the Bengals, who scored six runs to take the early lead.

FIRST GAME

Lewiston 100 233 8 — 17 10 1

Post Falls 000 000 0 — 0 5 5

Carson Kolb, Wiley Wagner (7) and Tyler Granlund; Langan Naylor, Danny Davoren (5), Jackson George (6), Gabe Diamond (7), Tyler French (7) and Isaac McKeown, Gabe Cooley (6).

HITS: Lew — Jelinek, Bensching, Ricard 3, Daniels, Elliott, Weeks, Granlund 2. PF — Naylor 2, Smith, Bustamante, French. 2B — Ricard. HR — Daniels, Ricard 2, Granlund, Elliott.

SECOND GAME

Lewiston 601 10 — 8 6 1

Post Falls 020 11 — 4 7 0

Game called after 5 innings due to darkness.

Guy Krasselt and Jared Jelinek; Isaac Ziegler, Caleb Jimerson (1) and Gabe Cooley.

HITS: Lew — Bensching, Ricard 2, Daniels, Weeks, Wagner. PF — Naylor 2, Smith, Ziegler, George, Cooley 2. 2B — Weeks, Ricard, Smith, Ziegler.

Orofino 16

Kellogg 6

OSBURN — The Wildcats fell to 8-12, 6-5 in Central Idaho League play following a loss to the Maniacs at Morehouse Field.

Further information was not available.

The teams meet again on Saturday in Orofino.