PREP BASEBALL: Lake City pulls away in completion of suspended game
POST FALLS — Lake City’s Mark Holecek broke the game open with a three-run double in the top of the sixth inning as the Timberwolves went on to beat the Post Falls Trojans 16-5 in the completion of an Inland Empire League that was suspended due to darkness on April 23.
Lake City scored once and led 5-4 with one out in the top of the sixth when the game was suspended last week. The T-Wolves scored six in the sixth and six more in the seventh.
Jake Dannenberg and Cooper Smith each had a two-run double in the seventh for Lake City (17-5, 14-4 IEL), which clinched the league title with a sweep of Coeur d’Alene on Thursday.
Isaac Ziegler and Gabe Diamond had two RBIs each for Post Falls (11-9, 8-9), which plays at Lakeland in the conclusion of a suspended game today at 4 p.m.
Lake City 000 046 6 — 16 8 3
Post Falls 210 100 1 — 5 6 0
Avrey Cherry, Nate Weatherhead (3), AJ Currie (6) and Cooper Smith; Austin DeBoer, Danny Devoren (5), Kaleb Gadley (6), Jackson George (6), Isaac Ziegler (6), Kyler Cooley (7) and Aidan Tomlinson.
HITS: LC — Usdrowski, Smith 2, Holecek 2, Hawkins, Moore, Jimenez. PF — French, Ziegler 2, A. Tomlinson, Diamond 2. 2B — Smith, Holecek, Diamond, A. Tomlinson.
Moscow 9-21
Lakeland 0-5
RATHDRUM — Raiston Ellwood had a three-run double in the fifth inning of the second game for the Hawks, who were swept in an Inland Empire League doubleheader by the Bears at Gorton Field.
Lakeland (9-12, 4-11 IEL) will face Post Falls in the conclusion of a suspended game today at 3 p.m.
Seeds were already set for the 4A Region 1 tournament prior to Thursday's play.
On Monday at the Moscow School District Community Playfields, the second-seeded Hawks will face third seed Sandpoint in a loser-out game at 3 p.m., and the winner advancing to face top-seeded Moscow (15-7, 11-5) at 5 p.m. in the first game of a best-of-3 game championship series.
FIRST GAME
Moscow 011 024 1 — 9 6 2
Lakeland 000 000 0 — 0 4 3
Levi Anderson, Connor Isakson (7) and Tyson Izzo; Tadgh Ellwood, Jake Jovick (6), Raiston Ellwood (6) and Kevin Slover, Hunter Averitt (6).
HITS: Mos — Green 2, Izzo, Anderson 2, Hurley. LL — Taylor, Mason, Reilly, Averitt. 2B — Averitt.
SECOND GAME
Moscow 004 377 — 21 13 2
Lakeland 100 040 — 5 7 7
Butch Kiblen, Keaton Clark (5) and Tyson Izzo; Jace Taylor, Jake Larcher (3), Evan Shanley (4), Roan Reilly (5) and Kevin Slover, Hunter Averitt (6).
HITS: Mos — Breese 3, Green 2, Izzo, Anderson 2, McLaughlin, Isakson, Holt 2, Rauch. LL — Taylor, Shanley, Mason, T. Ellwood, Killian, Slover. 2B — Anderson, Green, Breese, R. Ellwood, Slover.