Prairie, Sandpoint split doubleheader
SANDPOINT — Cody Brubaker, Kelly Hall and Jayson McMillen drove in two runs each as the Prairie Patriots defeated the Sandpoint Riley Creek Lakers 8-4 in the first game of a North Idaho League doubleheader Tuesday at Memorial Field.
Clay Montgomery pitched a three-hitter and struck out seven in the second game as Sandpoint won 12-2 in five innings.
Brubaker hit a two-run single in the fourth inning as Prairie (4-10 NIL, 13-21) built an 8-1 lead. Hall had a pair of RBI singles for the Pats.
Ricky Klontz hit a two-run single in the fifth inning for Sandpoint.
In the second game, Steve Wold of Sandpoint hit a disputed two-run homer to left field in the third inning to tie the game at 2. Prairie contended the ball bounced over the temporary fence for a ground rule double; the umpires ruled otherwise.
Later in the inning, an apparent catch by Prairie right fielder Jeremy Roth was ruled a drop, and another run eventually scored.
Klontz hit a two-run double in the fifth inning, and scored on a single by Montgomery to end the game on the 10-run rule.
Brubaker hit a two-run homer in the first for Prairie. Montgomery gave up one hit over the final four innings — a double by Brubaker in the third.
Prairie travels to Lewis-Clark on Friday for a league doubleheader.
FIRST GAME
Prairie 302 300 0 — 8 13 3
Sandpoint 010 021 0 — 4 10 0
Josh Lander and Kelly Hall; Glen Poelstra and Alex Wolfe. W — Lander (4-4). L — Poelstra.
HITS: Pra — Stewart 2, Carlile 2, Brubaker, Lander, Hall 3, McMillen, Bonwell, O'Hara, Roth. Spt — Wold, Klontz 2, Walkington, Howell, Hodges, Poelstra 2, Argabrite, Wolfe. 2B — Carlile, Hall, Bonwell, Klontz, Argabrite. 3B — McMillen.
SECOND GAME
Prairie 200 00 — 2 3 3
Sandpoint 004 44 — 12 13 1
Ryan Stewart, David Carlile (4), Jayson McMillen (4) and Kelly Hall; Clay Montgomery and Ben Turner. W — Montgomery. L — Stewart (2-3).
HITS: Pra — Carlile, Brubaker 2. Spt — Wold 3, Klontz 2, Walkington, Turner 2, Montgomery 2, Poelstra, Pearlstein 2. 2B — Brubaker, Klontz 2, Turner. HR — Brubaker (11), Wold.
Coeur d'Alene 13-10
Cranbrook 3-3
CRANBROOK, British Columbia — Dan Lau drove in three runs in the opener and hit a grand slam in the second game for the Lumbermen in the North Idaho League sweep.
Lau hit a two-run single in a seven-run fifth inning in the opener for Coeur d'Alene (8-6 NIL, 25-14-1), which scored 12 runs in its final two at bats.
Alex Capaul drove in four runs, three on a fourth-inning homer. Cory Kreighbaum hit a two-run single in the fourth to help support Daley Benson (7-0), who gave up one earned run.
In the second game, Lau's slam capped a six-run sixth inning that broke a 1-all tie. Mike Estrada, who entered the game in the sixth for defensive purposes, hit a three-run homer in the seventh.
Coeur d'Alene scored nine runs in its final two at bats.
"I think we wore the pitchers down," Coeur d'Alene coach Jim Straw said. "We had a number of quality at-bats leading up to (those big innings)."
Max Lyons struck out six, walked four and allowed two earned runs for the Lums.
Coeur d'Alene plays a key league doubleheader at Trail today at 5.
FIRST GAME
Coeur d'Alene 010 75 — 13 13 1
Cranbrook 000 12 — 3 5 3
Daley Benson and Travis Georgius, Charlie Johnson (5); Scott Reinarz and Tyler Durand. W — Benson (7-0). L — Reinarz.
HITS: Cd'A — Kreighbaum 3, Winter 2, Lau 2, Al. Capaul 2, Barlow 2, Holland 2. Cran — Nutzhorn, Durand, Hunter 2, Pepper. 2B — Barlow. HR — Al. Capaul.
SECOND GAME
Coeur d'Alene 010 006 3 — 10 11 4
Cranbrook 100 000 2 — 3 5 3
Max Lyons and Travis Georgius; Josh Lowden, Travis Holmes (6) and B.J. Heisler. W — Lyons (2-2). L — Lowden.
HITS: Cd'A — Winter, Lau 2, Georgius, Al. Capaul, Barlow, Lyons 3, Holland, Estrada. Cran — Nutzhorn 2, Heisler, Hunter, Torgerson. 2B — Holland, Heisler. HR — Lau, Estrada.