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Bend breaks RiverHawks’ four-game winning streak

Joe Pratt’s RBI single in the seventh inning Thursday snapped a 6-all tie and led the Bend Elks to an 8-6 win over the Spokane RiverHawks in West Coast Collegiate Baseball League play at Avista Stadium.

Spokane led 4-2 after Aaron Headrick’s RBI double in the fourth. Bend responded with a four-run fifth.

Spokane knotted the game at 6 with a two-run sixth. Mark Purser led off the inning with a homer to left-center and Headrick added a one-out RBI single to left-center.

Bend (11-11) is 4-0 against the RiverHawks this season. Spokane (10-12) ended a four-game winning streak.

Rodeo

Clarkston’s Mike Fuller and his partner, Shawn Brown of Bend, Ore., had the second-best time in team roping (7.1 seconds) on the first day of the Cheney Rodeo at Bi-Mart Arena. Results in Scoreboard, C4.