Lewiston Tops Cda For Crown

The Lewiston Bengals clubbed error-prone Coeur d’Alene 12-6 to capture the State A-1 baseball title on Saturday night at Hawks Memorial Stadium in Boise.

CdA lost leads of 3-0, 4-1 and 5-2 when its defense collapsed. The Vikings’ seven errors factored into all but one Lewiston run.

Pitcher Jesse Hoorelbeke and catcher Mike Dorame couldn’t make connections, leading to a combined six wild pitches or passed balls. And yet in the fifth, when Lewiston was busy scoring five runs to take a 10-5 lead, Dorame stone-walled three potential run-scoring wild pitches.

Simultaneous with CdA’s defensive woes, Lewiston bunching all 12 of its hits between the third and sixth innings.

Lewiston made no errors.

Track and field

The Highland (Pocatello) boys defended their State A-1 track and field title at Boise State University’s Bronco Stadium, holding off Centennial 76-72.

Post Falls’ bid for a top-five finish fell short as the Trojans earned 36 points and tied for sixth.

Post Falls senior Darick Pope took second in the 110-meter high hurdles. Bryce Knight of Lake City became the first Timberwolf to earn a state medal - he was third in the 800.

April Near of Bonners Ferry finished second in the 100 and 300 hurdles at the A-2 meet.

The Moscow girls were fourth.

Lakeland’s boys finished fifth with 40 points.

Wallace’s Dana Streeter collected a second gold medal as the A-3 meet concluded, defending her 100-meter hurdles title. She won the long jump Friday.

At the A-4 meet, four area athletes earned second-place honors - Becky Straw of Falls Christian, Matt Clifford of Mullan, Mike Gow of Clark Fork and Dan Usdrowski of Kootenai.

Fastpitch softball

Centennial’s 5-4 win over Lake City in the championship game at Caldwell was decided by gloves and throwing arms.

Lake City (25-4) committed nine errors and yielded four unearned runs.

Coeur d’Alene also suffered defensive meltdowns, losing 4-0 to Capital in the consolation championship. Nampa topped Lewiston 5-2 for third place.

A wild pitch in the bottom of the seventh inning gave Emmett a 6-5 win over St. Maries as the Lumberjacks settled for fourth place in A-2 play at Fruitland.

The Lumberjacks (18-6) defeated Intermountain League rival Lakeland, 6-3, to reach the third-place game.

Lakeland had lost a championship semifinal game to Middleton, 7-6 in eight innings.