STATE LEGION BASEBALL: Lums survive and advance to final round
Coeur d'Alene Press | UPDATED 3 hours, 49 minutes AGO
LEWISTON – Coeur d’Alene’s Jack Pierce came around to score on a throwing error on a pickoff attempt at second base as the Lumbermen rallied to beat the Twin Falls Cowboys 5-4 in a loser-out game in the state class AA tournament at Harris Field on Sunday.
Coeur d’Alene (16-15) will face the Idaho Falls Bandits today at 10 a.m., with the winner advancing to face the Lewis-Clark Twins for the state title.
Today's winner advances to the Northwest Regional tournament Aug. 5-9 in Medford, Ore.
Coeur d’Alene tied the game at 4-4 on an RBI single by Justin Fagan in the sixth inning, scoring Rylan Anstine.
Colton Nordman went 3 for 3 with two RBIs for Coeur d’Alene, which has won four straight loser-out games in the tournament.
Twin Falls finished 18-17.
Coeur d’Alene 120 000 2 – 5 9 4
Twin Falls 120 100 0 – 4 6 2
Asa Morton, Jack Pierce (2), Justin Fagan (7) and Colton Nordman; Jaxson Kasel and Maddox Stadelmeir.
HITS: Cd’A – Pierce 2, Fagan, Huss, Davenport, Franklin, Nordman 3. TF – Stadelmeir, Murray, Walker, Lee, Reyes, Black. 2B – Pierce 2, Fagan, Walker, Stadelmeir.
Lewis-Clark 8
Northern Lakes 4
NAMPA – The Mountaineers, who scored four runs in the bottom of the seventh in last Sunday’s class A Area A championship game, had their season come to an end at the hands of the team they beat, falling to district rival Lewis-Clark at Rodeo Park.
Gage Haines hit a sacrifice fly to score Jake Larcher in the bottom of the sixth inning to cut the deficit to 7-4 for Northern Lakes, which finished 27-8.
Northern Lakes finished 4-3 against Lewis-Clark this season.
Lewis-Clark (24-15-1) advances to the championship game today against the defending champion Burley Green Sox. The Cubs need to win twice to advance to the Regional tournament Aug. 6-10 at Casper, Wyo.
Lewis-Clark 110 014 1 – 8 12 1
North. Lakes 000 202 0 – 4 8 0
Joha Hultman and Cody Blackwell; Cruz Weitz, Mathew Junkin (6) and Ethan Pecor.
HITS: L-C – Kuther 2, Cox, Hultman 2, Blackwell 2, Jones 2, Helm, Pilon, Clark. NL – Pecor, Perkl 3, Larcher, Junkin, Brennan, Haines. 2B – Kuther, Blackwell, Hultman. 3B – Jones.