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Tribe Sweeps Hawks, Returns Home Tonight

In a Northwest League baseball game that resembled “can you top this?” the Spokane Indians one-upped the Boise Hawks once again.

Home runs by Doug Blosser and Brandon Berger and a three-run double by Kris Didion sparked the Tribe to a 9-7 triumph Monday to complete a four-game sweep of the South Division leaders.

The Indians (11-16) head home for a three-game series against the team directly ahead of them in the North, Bellingham, beginning at 7:05 tonight at Seafirst Stadium.

After yielding a first-inning run on a Matt Curtis double - the first of five RBIs for the Hawks catcher in the game - the Indians methodically carved out a 9-1 lead.

Blosser clubbed his second homer, off Brewster’s Jerrod Riggan, for 2-1 lead in the second.

Berger’s seventh homer - and third in two nights - was good for two and a 4-1 lead in the third.

Spokane sent eight men to the plate in the fourth, with Didion ending a 1-for-15 slump in the series with a base-clearing double for 8-1.

Juan Robles’ sacrifice fly in the fifth capped the Spokane scoring.

Then the Indians hung on.

Curtis popped a three-run homer in the fifth and had a sacrifice fly in a three-run seventh. It was 9-7.

But Modesto Villarreal, in his first appearance since he blew a lead Thursday, put the cuffs on the Hawks for his first save.

Spokane amassed 39 runs on 48 hits in the sweep - without taking batting practice.

Indians 9, Hawks 7

Spokane Boise ab r h bi ab r h bi Giambi cf 2 2 0 0 Drrngtn 2b 5 2 2 0 Didion 3B 5 0 1 3 Fefee lf 5 2 2 0 Pellow rf 5 0 0 0 Curtis c 4 1 2 5 Berger lf 5 1 3 2 Murphy cf 4 1 2 1 Layne dh 4 2 2 0 Gllspie 3b 5 0 0 0 Blossr 1b 3 2 1 2 Neal dh 4 0 1 1 Robles c 3 1 0 1 Rodrigz rf 4 0 0 0 Harp 2b 4 0 1 0 Byers 1b 4 0 2 0 Sees ss 0 0 0 0 Abbott ss 4 1 1 0 Taft ss-2b 3 1 2 1 Totals 34 9 10 9 Totals 39 7 12 7 Spokane 022 410 000 - 9 Boise 100 030 300 - 7 E-Robles (2), Didion (10), Abbott (11). LOB Spokane 8, Boise 7. DP-Boise 2. 2B-Curtis (13), Didion (3), Layne (6), Murphy (7). HR-Blosser (2), Berger (7), Curtis (5). SB-Durrington (17), Pellow (3), Berger (5). S-Harp. SF-Robles, Curtis.

Spokane IP H R ER BB SO ASndrs W,3-0 6 8 4 4 1 1 Villreal S,1 3 4 3 1 0 3 Boise IP H R ER BB SO Riggan L,2-1 5 6 9 9 4 3 Plooy 2-2/3 3 0 0 1 1 Cowsill 1-1/3 1 0 0 2 3 WP-Riggan, Villareal. PB- Curtis. HBPby Riggan (Blosser). T-2:46. A-4,877.