PREP ROUNDUP: Lake City takes two from Bonners; Lakeland sweeps

• BASEBALL

COEUR d’ALENE — With more chances to get on the mound, the Lake City pitching staff is starting to round into form just as league play begins in a few weeks. 

Junior Noah Childress allowed one hit over three scoreless innings of relief in the opener, then seniors Kasen Noffke and Andy Everson combined to strike out nine in the second game as the Timberwolves swept the Bonners Ferry Badgers 11-6 and 5-2 on Saturday at Lake City High. 

“With more reps outside, the guys are getting better,” Lake City coach Gil Pierce said. “We did a good job of putting the ball in play in the opener and really had good pitching all day. Our pitchers just went out and did what they had to do all day and got ahead in the count.” 

Junior Logan Strimback, senior Kasen Noffke and junior Ethan Stach had two RBIs each in the first game for Lake City, which left 14 on base and trailed 6-2 before scoring six runs in the bottom of the fourth. 

Strimback and junior Cooper Chaffin had two runs scored each in the second game for the Timberwolves (4-6), who return to action April 7 with a doubleheader at Sandpoint. 

“It was good to get a couple of wins before the break,” Pierce said. “We’ll be back to work later this week and try to build on this.” 

Jake Solt, Colson Baisden and Ronin Hanson each had three hits on the day for Bonners Ferry (3-5), which travels to Lakeside of Nine Mile Falls, Wash., on Tuesday. 

FIRST GAME 

Bonners Ferry    113    100    0    —    6    10    5 

Lake City    200    630    x    —    11    8    2 

Jack Woods, Gavin Rider (4), Gordon Woelfle (5) and Kordale Burt; Maverick Lanigan, Noah Childress (5) and Logan Strimback. 

HITS: BF — Liermann, Maas, Woods, Hanson, Solt 2, Burt, Baisden 2, Dickson. LC — Strimback, Huss, Noffke 2, Stach 2, Everson 2. 2B — Everson. 

SECOND GAME 

Bonners Ferry    000    020    0    —    2    6    1 

Lake City    210    020    x    —    5    8    0 

Stryder Liermann and Gavin Rider; Kasen Noffke, Andy Everson (5) and Ethan Stach. 

HITS: BF — Woods, Hanson 2, Solt, Baisden, Schrock. LC — Chaffin 2, Jensen, Huss 2, Stenzel, Parson, Stach. 2B — Stenzel, Chaffin. 

Lewiston 4-2 

Post Falls 3-0

LEWISTON — The host Bengals scored the winning run with two outs in the bottom of the eighth inning in the opener, then scored two runs in the bottom of the third in the nightcap to sweep the Trojans at Church Field. 

Senior Karl Berend scored on a sacrifice fly for Post Falls to tie the game at 3-3 in the top of the seventh in the first game. Lewiston scored on an error with two outs in the eighth to get the win. 

Post Falls (2-6) hosts Colville on Friday in a single game at 3 p.m. 

FIRST GAME 

Post Falls    000    100    20    —    3    5    2 

Lewiston    000    030    01    —    4    6    1 

2 out when winning run scored.

Mike O’Connor, Marshall Tomlinson (5) and Marshall Tomlinson, Brandon Felix (5); Jayden Estlund, Landon Ortiz (3), Zavier McFee (6) and unknown. 

HITS: PF — Berend, Wienker 2, Berger, B. Carrasco. Lew — Casey, Peterson, Phillips, Henson 2, Bonebrake. 2B — none. 3B — none. 

SECOND GAME  

Post Falls    000    000    0    —    0    5    0 

Lewiston    002    000    0    —    2    7    0 

Caden Reese, Karl Berend (5) and Brandon Felix; Jaxon Holthaus, Carson Henson (6) and Cal Robbins.  

HITS: PF — Berend, Wienker, O’Connor, B. Carrasco, Kearney. Lew — Robbins 2, Phillips, Holthaus, Jones, Richardson, Ortiz. 2B — Kearney, Phillips, Robbins, Ortiz. 

Lakeland 14-9 

Lakeside 2-7 

NINE MILE FALLS, Wash. — Senior Jake Larcher and sophomore Nate Bevacqua drove in three runs each in the opener for the Hawks, who scored nine runs in the top of the fifth inning to battle back to beat the Eagles the first game of a nonleague doubleheader at Lakeside High. 

Larcher also scored four runs in the opener for Lakeland, which scored 13 unanswered runs. 

“We started having more quality at-bats and did a good job of waiting for our pitch,” Lakeland coach Al Bevacqua said. “We just dialed in offensively and our pitchers did a good job of challenging the strike zone and let our guys play defense.” 

In the second game, junior Parker Byrd singled to score junior Griffin Tamagni with the go-ahead run as the Hawks (2-4) scored twice in the top of the ninth to sweep the Eagles (2-2). 

Lakeland plays a doubleheader at Timberlake on April 7. 

FIRST GAME 

Lakeland    100    094    —    14    10    2 

Lakeside    002    000    —    2    2    3 

Game called after 6 innings due to 10-rule rule. 

Jace Taylor, Landon Puzio (5) and Nate Bevacqua; Drake Wood, Kannon Almond (5), Connor Fritz (6) and Cy Reeves. 

HITS: LL — Stoffer, Larcher 2, Taylor 2, Bevacqua 2, Knight 2, Puzio. LS — Reeves, Clancy. 2B — Reeves. 

SECOND GAME 

Lakeland    040    012    002    —    9    15    1 

Lakeside    102    400    000    —    7    7    3 

Luke Knight, Landon Puzio (3), Jake Larcher (5) and Nate Bevacqua; Maxx Clancy, Austin Simonson (4), Connor Fritz (9) and Cy Reeves. 

HITS: LL — Junkin, Larcher 3, Taylor 2, Bevacqua 2, Smith 2, Puzio 2, Byrd 2, Williams. LS — Almond, Phillips, Smeltzer, Clancy 2, Simonson 2. 2B — Byrd, Larcher, Bevacqua, Smeltzer. 3B — Junkin. 

Timberlake finishes 3-1 

At Southfork tourney 

KOOSKIA — Junior Nate Beardsall had two hits and five RBIs and senior Eric Wylie went 4 for 4 with three runs scored for the Tigers in an 11-1 win over North Star Charter of Eagle in the Southfork tournament at Clearwater Valley High. 

Senior Tanner Van Tassel struck out four in 3 2/3 innings for Timberlake against North Star Charter (1-8). 

Against Potlatch, junior Ryker Brennan singled and scored on an error in the first inning for the lone run for the Tigers, who fell to the Potlatch Loggers (6-1) 4-1 to finish the tournament 3-1. 

Brennan also struck out five in 4 1/3 innings for Timberlake (6-4), which hosts Lakeland in a doubleheader on April 7. 

TIMBERLAKE 11, NORTH STAR CHARTER 1

N.S. Charter    001    00    —    1    5    3 

Timberlake    103    16    —    11    11    3 

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

Logan Mahler, Andrew Marron (5) and Jacob Jones; Titus Tenney, Tanner Van Tassel (2) and Gage Haines. 

HITS: NSC — Irwin 2, Fox, Marron, Houtz. TL — Brennan, Perkl, Wylie 4, Beardsall 2, Van Tassel, Haines, Shively. 2B — Haines, Shively, Wylie, Van Tassel, Beardsall. 

POTLATCH 4, TIMBERLAKE 1 

Timberlake    100    000    0    —    1    2    4 

Potlatch    210    100    x    —    4    5    3 

Ryker Brennan, Ethen Blansfield (5) and Gage Haines; Jameson Morris, Michael Scalzo (6) and Jay Marshall. 

HITS: TL — Brennan, Haines. Pot — Carpenter, Scalzo 2, Pollock, Mitchell. 2B — none. 3B — none. 

• TRACK AND FIELD

Kellogg's Harju wins 400

at Colville meet

COLVILLE — Kellogg junior Davin Harju won the 400-meter dash in 50.98 seconds, leading the Wildcats to a third-place finish at the Ezra Gordon Invitational at Colville High. 

Priest River senior Niki Porinchok won the shot put (48 feet, 6 inches) and discus (162-4). 

Freeman of Rockford, Wash., won the boys team title with 138 points. 

Riverside of Chattaroy, Wash., won the girls team title with 132 points. 

BOYS  

TEAM SCORES — 1, Freeman 138. 2, Colville 109.5. 3, Kellogg 49. 4, Newport 47.5. 5, Chewelah 45. 6, Riverside 44.5. 7, Priest River 40. 8, Reardan 39.5. 9, Northport 28. 10, St. Maries 27. 11 (tie), Clark Fork, Cusick 18. 13, Deer Park 17. 14, Republic 14. 15, Columbia 5. 16, Curlew 1. 

Winners, locals in top three 

100 — 1, David Jackson, Republic, 11.22. 2, Santiago Prenzato, St. Maries, 11.27. 200 — 1, Santiago Prenzato, St. Maries, 22.66. 2, Davin Harju, Kellogg, 23.75. 3, Ian Lamanna, Priest River, 23.76. 400 — 1, Davin Harju, Kellogg, 50.98. 800 — 1, Justice Whittekiend, Chewelah, 2:02.98. 1,600 — 1, Malik Ortiz, Colville, 4:33.16. 3,200 — 1, Malik Ortiz, Colville, 10:00.46.  

110 hurdles — 1, Trenton Sandborn, Freeman, 14.99. 2, Westin Caven, Clark Fork, 17.83. 300 hurdles — 1, Westin Caven, Clark Fork, 44.62. 4x100 relay — 1, Riverside, 45.95. 4x400 relay — 1, Freeman, 3:45.72.  

Shot put — 1, Niki Porinchok, Priest River, 48-6. 2, AJ Peak, Kellogg, 44-8 ½. 3, Luke Little, Kellogg, 44-3 ½. Discus — 1, Niki Porinchok, Priest River, 162-4. 3, AJ Peak, Kellogg, 122-7. Javelin — 1, David Parker, Riverside, 163-6. High jump — 1, Trenton Sandborn, Freeman, 6-8. 2, Davin Harju, Kellogg, 6-2. Pole vault — 1, Ian Lamanna, Priest River, 13-6. Long jump — 1, Tyce Gilbert, Freeman, 21-5 ¾. Triple jump — 1, Darnell Ah Loo, Colville, 44-0.  

GIRLS 

TEAM SCORES — 1, Riverside 132. 2, Freeman 124. 3, Colville 90.5. 4, Deer Park 76. 5, Curlew 54. 6, St. Maries 47.5. 7, Newport 39.5. 8 (tie), Chewelah, Northport 25. 10, Reardan 24. 11, Kellogg 10.5. 12, Clark Fork 6. 13, Republic 5. 14, Columbia 4. 15, Priest River 3. 

Winners, locals in top three 

100 — 1, Fiona Anderson, Freeman, 12.81. 200 — 1, Ruby Schneider, Riverside, 27.23. 400 — 1, Fiona Anderson, Freeman, 1:00.58. 3, Sophia Tondee, St. Maries, 1:06.71. 800 — 1, Audrey Santman, Freeman, 2:28.51. 1,600 — 1, Audrey Santman, Freeman, 5:37.72. 3,200 — 1, Olivia Collins, Newport, 12:19.96.  

100 hurdles — 1, Brooklynn Jacobs, Deer Park, 18.47. 300 hurdles — 1, Andee Kroiss, Colville, 49.56. 4x100 relay — 1, Riverside, 51.57. 4x200 relay — 1, Deer Park, 1:57.41. 4x400 relay — 1, Riverside, 4:19.30.  

Shot put — 1, Athena Jones, Riverside, 37-2. 3, Meijah Yearout, St. Maries, 28-4. Discus — 1, Meijah Yearout, St. Maries, 105-11. Javelin — 1, Dimerica Spooner, St. Maries, 92-7. High jump — 1, Alyssa Riek, Riverside, 5-2. Pole vault — 1, Fiona Anderson, Freeman, 11-7. Long jump — 1, Andee Kroiss, Colville, 15-11. Triple jump — 1, Joelle Brandtner, Newport, 32-3 ½.  

• TENNIS

Viks' Knutson/Knutson finish

second on No. 1 girls doubles

The Coeur d’Alene No. 1 girls doubles team of Natalie Knutson and Gabby Knutson advanced to the championship match of the Larry McConnell Invitational, falling 6-3, 5-7, 10-5 to a team from Mead of Spokane to finish second in the event, held in Lewiston and Clarkston.

Coeur d'Alene's No. 2 doubles team of Emily Stillert and Morgan Knutson also advanced to the championship match, falling 6-2, 6-3 to a team from Mead. 

The Coeur d’Alene No. 2 boys doubles team of Britten Ethington and Ryan Drappo lost in the semifinal round. 

Coeur d’Alene hosts Post Falls on April 7. 

    MARK NELKE/Press Lake City sophomore Cooper Chafin (4) prepares to tag out Jake Solt of Bonners Ferry at third base in the first game Saturday at Lake City.
  

    Courtesy photo The Coeur d'Alene girls No. 1 doubles team of Natalie Knutson, left, and Gabby Knutson advanced to the championship match of the Larry McConnell Invitational at Clarkston High on Saturday, falling in the finals to a team from Mead High in three sets.