Colville Downs EV 2-0, Will Meet Cheney For Title

Frontier League

Colville’s baseball team defeated visiting East Valley 2-0 in the Frontier League District 7 Tournament elimination game on Tuesday.

The Indians (13-6) will travel to Cheney (12-6) for a best-of-three series starting Saturday at noon. If a third game is needed, it will be played on Tuesday at 4 p.m.

Against the fourth-seeded Knights, the No. 2-seeded Indians used Jason Spears’ solid pitching to get the win. Spears scattered two hits and struck out four to move his record to 9-2.

Colville got all its runs in the bottom of the fifth when Tim Sprangers doubled in Brandon True and Andy Hardison doubled in Sprangers.

Prior to losing to Colville, EV (13-7) eliminated No. 4 seed West Valley 8-1, also at Colville.

EV’s Steve Pipkin struck out nine and held the usually hot-hitting Eagles (12-7) to just three hits.

EV’s Bill Tincup matched the WV effort at the plate with three hits in four at-bats.

Softball

WV stopped visiting Clarkston 13-1 behind Darcy Sohns’ three-run homer in the fourth. Sohns also remained unbeaten (10-0) with a two-hit outing.

WV’s teammate Carie Koker was 3 for 4 with one RBI and four runs.

At 14-1, the Eagles can secure a No. 1 berth to the district playoffs next week with a win today against Pullman.

Clarkston (6-6) is chasing the fourth and final Frontier berth to district. The Bantams have six rescheduled games to play this week because of bad weather.

In another makeup game, Colville beat host Cheney 8-5. The Indians got the win as Tarrah Brown moved her record to 9-3 on the year. Cheney is 4-10.

, DataTimes