BONNERS FERRY — Bonners Ferry High School could not get past Coeur d’Alene in both games of a doubleheader, losing by four and five runs respectively. Wearing special uniforms for military appreciation day, the Badgers scored three runs in both fixtures on April 11. 

Game 1: Coeur d’Alene 7, Bonners Ferry 3 

Colson Baisden and Kordale Burt each had two hits for the Badgers, who held CDA scoreless for three innings before a tough fourth inning proved costly. 

Tyson Dickson and Baisden each doubled, but the Badgers struck out 10 times. Maddox Mertzweiller and Baisden each collected an RBI. 

Stryder Liermann hit leadoff and started pitching, giving up two earned runs in four innings. Gordon Woelfle followed on the mound and finished the game with three innings, collecting four strikeouts. 

Neither team threatened at the beginning of the game, but an error followed by Dickson’s double gave the Badgers runners second and third with one out. However, a flyout and strikeout ended the threat. 

In the bottom of the third inning, Bonners Ferry started a two-out rally. After a walk and hit by pitch, a single by Jake Solt nearly scored a run, but Jack Woods was thrown out at home. 

Three singles in the top of the fourth, combined with an error, got the scoring started with a four spot for CDA.  

Bonners Ferry responded with one run in the fourth, as Baisden’s double scored Mertzweiler. 

Two quick outs in the top of the fifth spelled hope for the Badgers, before a double and single tacked on another run for Coeur d’Alene. Another run was plated in the sixth inning. 

Singles from Burt, Ronin Hanson and Baisden gave the Badgers two runs in the sixth, but that would be all the scoring they mustered, before another run was tacked on in the seventh by CDA.  

Bonners Ferry 0 0 0 1 0 2 0 — 3 7 4 

Coeur d’Alene 0 0 0 4 1 1 1 — 7 10 3 

HITTING  

Hits: Burt 2, Baisden 2, Hanson 1, Solt 1, Dickson 1. 2B: Baisden 1, Dickson 1. RBI: Mertzweilier 1, Baisden 1. Runs: Hanson 1, Burt 1, Mertzweilier 1. 

PITCHING 

Liermann: 4IP, 5H, 4R (2ER), 2K, 2BB. Woelfle: 3IP, 5H, 3R (2ER), 4K, 1BB. 

Game 2: Coeur d’Alene 8, Bonners Ferry 3 

A five-run second inning from the visitors took the game away from the Badgers who fell to 4-9 on the season after their doubleheader loss. 

Stryder Liermann, Keenan Maas, Ronin Hanson, Gavin Rider and all recorded hits for Bonners Ferry. Joining them was Jeremiah Becker, who had the only double of the game for the team. 

Jack Woods came on in the middle of the game, throwing 4.1 innings in relief, adding six strikeouts along the way. Brent Worley pitched a scoreless seventh inning. 

The Badgers were down after the first inning, as despite a successful pickoff move to second base, a line drive led to the first run of the game for Coeur d’Alene. Five runs followed in the second inning for the visitors, who racked up three singles, two walks and two hit by pitches in the frame. 

It remained scoreless until the bottom of the fourth, when Becker’s pinch-hit double gave Bonners Ferry a run after a groundout. The next inning, the Badgers scored without a hit, as a drop third strike and an error led to a run. 

Two more runs from CDA in the sixth inning gave them a six-run advantage. A consolation run from Bonners Ferry was the last of the scoring. 

Bonners Ferry 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 — 3 5 2 

Coeur d’Alene 1 5 0 0 0 2 0 — 8 7 3 

HITTING 

Hits: Liermann 1, Maas 1, Becker 1, Hanson 1, Rider 1. 2B: Becker 1. RBI: Becker 1, Mertzweilier 1, Hanson 1. Runs: Dickson 1, Baisden 1, Becker 1. 

PITCHING 

Rider: 1.2IP, 2H, 6R, 3BB. Woods: 4.1IP, 3H, 2R, 6K, 4BB. Worley: 1IP, 2H, 0R, 1K.  

    Lefty Jack Woods throws out of the stretch.