PREP ROUNDUP: Big fifth inning sends Timberlake baseball past Clarkston in season opener

• BASEBALL

CLARKSTON, Wash. — Junior Nate Beardsall hit a bases-clearing double with two outs in the top of the fifth inning as the visiting Timberlake Tigers scored six runs in the frame en route to a 7-3 victory over the Clarkston Bantams in the nonleague opener for both at Clarkston High on Tuesday. 

“We were a little asleep at the wheel for the first few innings, but both teams were,” Timberlake coach Bryce Johnson said. “We started to have some good at-bats in the fourth inning and picked up where we left off in the fifth. We started to get some clutch hitting in the fifth.” 

Junior Ryker Brennan and sophomore Dane Perkl also had RBIs in the fifth for Timberlake, which visits Vallivue High of Caldwell in the Bucks Bags Tournament on Thursday. 

“It was good for the guys to see someone different and adjust,” Johnson said. “There were some nerves and it took us a while to get going. But I was happy to keep them at bay until we could get going offensively.” 

Timberlake    000    061    0    —    7    4    1 

Clarkston    100    020    0    —    3    5    2 

Eric Wylie, Ryker Brennan (4) and Gage Haines; Kendry Gimlin, Jacob Stewart (5), Parker Nugen (6) and Jacob Ostermiller. 

HITS: TL — Perkl, Beardsall, Van Tassel, Tenney. Clark — Green, Gimlin 2, Sevy, Nugen. 2B — Beardsall, Green.  

Gonzaga Prep 14 

Post Falls 4, 5 inn. 

SPOKANE — The visiting Trojans committed five errors in a loss to the Bullpups in a nonleague game at Gonzaga Prep. 

Ayden Carrasco and Mike O’Connor had RBIs in the fifth inning for Post Falls, which faces Ridgevue and Twin Falls in the Buck’s Bags Tournament on Thursday at Ridgevue High in Nampa. 

Post Falls    000    04    —    4    4    5 

Gonzaga Prep    481    01    —    14    8    1 

Game called with one out in bottom of 5th inning due to 10-run rule. 

Mike O’Connor, Ian Tandy (2), Bryce Berger (3), Finley Odell (4), Dylan Vranich (5) and Marshall Tomlinson, Mason Perkins (5); Jacob Wilson, Dylan Croall (3), Gavin Lortie (4) and Anthony Karis. 

HITS: PF — A. Carrasco, Tomlinson, O’Connor, Wienker. GP — Keller 3, Karis, Mott, Comfort 2, Fray. 2B — O’Connor, Comfort, Mott, Keller 2.  

Kellogg at Bonners Ferry (2), 2. 

• SOFTBALL

Clarkston 7 

Timberlake 5 

CLARKSTON, Wash. — Sophomore Shae Jones hit a two-run home run in the top of the first inning for the Tigers, who dropped their season opener to the Bantams. 

Sophomore Sadie Green had two of Timberlake’s four hits. 

Jones struck out 12 and walked two for the Tigers. Only two of the seven runs she allowed were earned. 

Timberlake plays host to West Valley on Thursday. 

Timberlake     200    011    1    —    5    4    4 

Clarkston     300    400    x    —    7    6    0 

Shae Jones and Prestyn Gardner; O. Tannahill and M. Gillie. 

HITS: TL — Gonzales, Jones, Green 2. Clark — Line, McCormack-Marks 3, Gillie, Leonard. 2B — McCormack-Marks. HR — Jones. 

• TRACK AND FIELD

Dittman wins pole vault 

at Kamiah Invitational

KAMIAH — Kootenai junior Tyla Dittman won the girls pole vault at the Kamiah Invitational at the Bob Squires Sports Complex, winning with a mark of 9-feet. 

The Wallace girls 4x200 relay team of senior Aubrey Birdsell, freshman Sophia Field, freshman Meadow Pearson and sophomore Italia Plummer won in 2 minutes, 4.67 seconds. 

Kootenai freshman Juniper Stevenson was third in the 800 in 2:41.50 and sophomore Harleigh Dutton third in the shot put with a throw of 30 feet, 1 inch. 

Wallace junior Reece Williams was third in the boys javelin with a throw of 103-1. The Miners 4x100 relay team of junior Simon Sodbat, sophomore Ashton Holbert, Williams and sophomore Cooper Miller was second in 49.45. 

McCall-Donnelly swept team titles. 

• POSTPONEMENTS

Today's Lake City-Lakeland baseball game, which was postponed from Tuesday and rescheduled for today in Rathdrum, has now been moved to the artificial turf of War Memorial Field in Sandpoint, scheduled for 4 p.m.