Sandpoint Short A Legion team second in league
—Courtesy photo Pictured front row, from left to right: Caleb Davis, Mike Riley, Ethan Edlund and Toben Pincher. Back row: Manager Josh Edlund, Tyler Lehman, Kade MacDonald, Tristan Authier, Connor Bird, Kerry Johnson, Eli Daugherty, Tyler Stewart, Matt Cometto, Trevor Brackett and coach K.C. MacDonald.
SANDPOINT — The Sandpoint Dawgs American Legion Short A baseball wrapped up a successful season recently by beating the Prairie Cardinals 6-1 to finish second in league play.
The Dawgs finished with a 14-3 record, including strong wins over Spokane teams Lewis and Clark, Gonzaga Prep and North Central. The Dawgs raked to a .287 team batting average, while holding their opponents to a paltry .185 on the season.
Freshman Tyler Lehman led the team with monstrous .526 batting average, featuring a powerful lefty bat able to hit to all fields, sophomore Caleb Davis used a line-drive stroke to hit .419 and sophomore Kade MacDonald hit .340 to lead the offense.
“Not only were the bats hot,” said the team’s manager Josh Edlund, “but our pitching was awesome.”
Flame-throwing sophomore Tristan Authier pitched struck out 39 batters in 41 innings, MacDonald added 20 quality innings with 22 punchouts, and Lehman rang up 23 hitters in 22 innings of work, as the trio averaged a strikeout per inning of work, a number any manager will take.
This is the third season of Dawgs baseball, and the first with two teams, as the Legion A team is wrapping its season up this weekend in Moses Lake.
“For those of us who have been involved with the growth of the Dawgs, the decision to get more players involved with baseball this summer has been extremely gratifying and the interest from the players, parents and coaches highly inspiring,” said Dawgs Single A manager Ken Oler. “Bravo Zulu to the players, parents and coaches for an exceptionally strong first season as Dawgs.”