LEGION BASEBALL: Prairie wins twice at showcase event
Coeur d'Alene Press | UPDATED 6 hours, 35 minutes AGO
PASCO, Wash. — Bryce Berger went 4 for 6 with two RBIs and two runs scored on the day as the Prairie Cardinals won twice at a Top Tier event on Saturday.
Prairie edged the Tri-Cities Badgers 17U 4-3 at Tri-Cities Prep, then beat the RSP Baseball Upperclass 11-1 at Columbia Basin College.
Against Tri-Cities, Logan Storrer’s RBI double in the third inning tied the game at 3 for Prairie. In the fifth, Isaiah Kearney walked and scored the go-ahead run on a groundout.
Against RSP, Alec Finn drove in three runs for the Cardinals (8-3-1), two on a seventh-inning double. Kasen Noffke struck out seven and walked two in six innings, allowing three hits and an unearned run.
Prairie, 2-0-1 at the event, is scheduled to play RSP Upperclass again, today at 3 p.m. at CBC.
PRAIRIE 4, TRI-CITIES 3
Prairie 003 010 0 — 4 6 1
Tri-Cities 300 000 0 — 3 8 2
Jackson Schreibeis, James Morast (6) and Kaiden Kubo; Dylan Brown, Luke Carter (5) and Max Baerlocher.
HITS: Pra — Howard, Berger 2, Storrer, Stinson, Kubo. TC — Stevens, Carter, Breedlove, Dickhaus, Baerlocher 2, Diaz, Hatfield. 2B — Stinson, Storrer, Dickhaus.
PRAIRIE 11, RSP 1
Prairie 301 030 4 — 11 10 1
RSP 000 001 0 — 1 3 2
Kasen Noffke, Alec Finn (7) and Houston Smith; C. French, J. Kennedy (5), Rivas (5) and Mugnos.
HITS: Pra — Howard, Wienker 2, Berger 2, Storrer, Finn, Kearney, Stinson, Noffke. RSP — DeLeon, Mugnos, Harvey. 2B — Stinson, Storrer, Finn. 3B — Harvey.
Coeur d’Alene 11
Kennewick 3
PULLMAN — Justin Fagan had a two-run triple to cap a five-run second inning as the Lumbermen AA team pulled away from the Kennewick Dusters 17U at the Palouse Summer Series at Washington State’s Bailey-Brayton Field.
Evan Huss doubled in a run in a six-run fourth for Coeur d’Alene (5-6), and Logan Strimback added an RBI single.
Huss allowed two hits over five innings.
Dusters 003 00 — 3 2 3
Lums 050 6x — 11 8 4
Griffin, No. 13 (3), No. 11 (4) and No. 3; Evan Huss and Colton Nordman.
HITS: Ken — Griffin, Eli. Cd’A — Pierce, MacNiven, Fagan 2, Huss, Nordman, Childress, Strimback. 2B — Huss. 3B — Fagan.