Bonners Ferry baseball had a difficult year, finishing with a 5-17 record and were unable to advance past the district playoffs. However, there were several impressive team and individual moments throughout the season.

The Badgers got off to a 2-0 start with 17-7 and 18-0 blowouts against Kellogg, before later winning at Riverside. However, the most impressive performance came on April 14, when Bonners Ferry came back from a 4-0 deficit to defeat league rivals Timberlake at home by a score of 11-6. 

On an individual level, Colson Baisden led the team with a .378 average. He was followed by Ronin Hanson at .281. Kordale Burt and Tyson Dickson each hit .278. 

Dickson had a .480 on-base percentage, reaching safely nearly every other at-bat. Baisden (.444) and Gordon Woelfle (.400) had the next highest OBPs.  

Dickson (.869), Baisden (.861) and Burt (.751) had the highest on-base plus slugging percentage. Baisden had 18 hits, the most on the team. Hanson had 16, with Stryder Liermann and Burt each adding 15.  

Burt had a team-high five doubles. Gavin Rider had four and Keenan Maas had three. Maas, Hanson and Jack Woods had one triple each. Liermann had the team’s only homerun.  

Maddox Mertzweiler, Baisden and Hanson tied for the team lead with 10 RBIs. Liermann scored 19 runs, comfortably in first place ahead of Maas (13) and Baisden (11). Woods and Rider each drew nine walks.  

Woods and Liermann got hit by a pitch five times throughout the season. Baisden reached ten steals on the season, with Liermann on six and Mertzweiler on five.  

As a pitcher, Liermann threw 34 innings with a team-high two wins. He stuck out an even 20 batters.  

Woods threw 27.2 innings, collecting one win and a team-best 36 strikeouts. Gavin Rider struck out 24 batters in just 18.1 innings of work.