LEGION BASEBALL: 19U Lakers split twinbill with Lewis-Clark

19U LAKERS

LEWISTON — After Jorden Tyler pitched the Lakers to a 2-1 win in the first game, the team almost pulled off the impossible in the second game, scoring 11 unanswered runs in a 14-12 loss as North Idaho split a doubleheader with the Lewis-Clark Cubs at Harris Field on Tuesday.

In the first game, the Lakers scored both their runs in the top of the first inning. Mason Little, who singled to lead off the game, scored on an error and Dallen Williams hit a sacrifice fly to center to score Soren Caprio, who walked earlier in the inning. On the mound, Tyler pitched a gem, putting in six innings of work and giving up just four hits, one earned run and three walks while striking out eight batters. Williams pitched a 1-2-3 seventh inning in relief, which included two strikeouts, to record his first save of the season.

In the second game, Williams started things off by hitting an RBI single to left in the first, but Lewis-Clark responded with 10 runs in the bottom half of the inning and four more in the third to take a 14-1 lead. In the fifth, the Lakers bats got hot. Finn Mellander, Gavin Day, Parker Reichart and Jacob Hansen all hit RBI singles to narrow the deficit to eight runs. In the sixth, it was much of the same as Caprio hit an RBI single and North Idaho put up five more runs thanks to a couple of errors and fielder’s choice. Down 14-11 heading into the final inning, Mellander hit a sacrifice fly to left, but the Lakers would fall just two runs shy after the huge rally. In relief, Caprio single-handedly kept North Idaho in the game after pitching 5 ⅓ innings, giving up four hits, no earned runs and two walks while striking out six batters.

North Idaho (4-1) takes on Coeur d’Alene Lumbermen at home today.

GAME ONE

North Idaho 200 000 0 — 2 5 1

Lewis-Clark 000 100 0 — 1 4 3

W — Tyler: 6IP, 4H, 1ER, 3BB, 8K. L — McFee: 6IP, 4H, 2ER, 3BB, 2K.

HITS: NI — Little 2, Mellander 1, Medeiros 1, Reichart 1. LC — Collins 2, Woods 1, Cox 1.

No extra-base hits.

RBI: NI — Williams 1. LC — None.

SB: NI — Medeiros 1. LC — None.

GAME TWO

North Idaho 100 055 1 — 12 14 4

Lewis-Clark [10]04 000 X — 14 5 7

W — Eilers: 5 IP, 10H, 1ER, 1BB, 1K. L —  Reichart: 0.1 IP, 1H, 5 ER, 2BB, 0K.

HITS: NI — Little 2, Mellander 2, Day 2, Medeiros 2, Hansen 2, Johnson 1, Reichart 1, Williams 1, Caprio 1. LC — Collins 1, Woody 1, Curry 1, Cox 1, Blackwell 1.

2B — Little.

RBI: NI — Reichart 3, Day 2, Mellander 2, Williams 1, Caprio 1, Johnson 1, Hansen 1. LC — Cox 3, Blackwell 1, McFee 1, Crosby 1, Helm 1, Bonebrake 1, Collins 1.

SB: NI — Williams 2, Little 2, Inge 1. LC — None.

16U LAKERS

SANDPOINT — The 16U North Idaho Lakers fell to the Prairie Cardinals 17-8 at War Memorial Field on Tuesday. 

The Lakers scored all of their runs on either errors, walks, or fielder’s choices.

Kieran Ryan pitched a solid 3 ⅓ innings in relief for North Idaho, giving up seven hits, three earned runs and no walks while striking out four batters.

North Idaho (0-7) will travel to Rathdrum to take on Northern Lakes on Tuesday, June 18.

Prairie 027 013 4 — 17 11 4

North Idaho 000 205 1 — 8 0 12

W — Patliotto: 3IP, 0H, 0ER, 0BB, 2K. L — Garvin: 2IP, 3H, 4ER, 3BB, 2K.

HITS: NI — None. PR — Lanzaro 3, Fitzpatrick 2, Measel 2, Bowlin 1, Brown 1, St. Marie 1, Schreibeis 1.

2B — Lanzaro.

RBI: NI — Gutierrez 1, Miller 1, Alexander 1. PR — Measel 2, Kearney 2, Brown 1, Bowlin 1, Paliotto 1, Fitzpatrick 1, Schreibeis 1, Rigler 1.