Caston Foils Colville’s Chance For League Lead

Matt Caston cast aside Colville’s bid to take over first place in Frontier League baseball.

Caston struck out 10 and walked none Tuesday to help Cheney (6-0) to a 4-1 win over visiting Colville (4-1).

Trevor Webber hit a two-run homer in the third inning and Bryan Miller did the same in the fifth for the Blackhawks.

Cheney 4, Colville 1

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Cheney 003 010 x - 4 7 2

Spears and Noble; Caston and Barthelmes. W-Caston (2-0). L-Spears.

HITS: Colville-Bateman 3, Fox 2, Noble, McGloghlen. Cheney- Miller 3, Fiddes, Webber, Collins, Barthelmes. 2B-Miller. HR- Miller, Webber.

Clarkston 9, West Valley 8

Jason Larson scored on a bases-loaded walk to Tom Lyden in the eighth, leading the visiting Bantams (2-4) over the Eagles (2-5).

Ian Harty’s two-run homer in the fifth and Kevin Risley’s RBI single in the sixth allowed WV to force extra innings.

Clarkston 023 102 01 - 9 11 3

West Valley 020 141 00 - 8 10 1

Burns, Romesburg (7) and Lammerding; Hall, Isherwood (6) and Lawler. W-Romesburg. L-Isherwood (1-2).

HITS: Clarkston-Romesburg 2, Lyden, Burns, McCall 2, Lammerding, Cridlebaugh 2, Larson 2. West Valley-Hilsabeck, Harty 3, Lawler, Macarty, Risley 2, Hall, Howe. 2B-Burns, McCall, Harty, Macarty, Hall, Howe. HR-Harty (1).

Pullman 12, Riverside 5

Steve Burn and Andy O’Fallon, who both tripled, combined for five RBIs to send the visiting Greyhounds (2-3) over the Rams (1-6).

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Riverside 111 020 0 - 5 7 3

Chamberlain, McDonald (7) and Hobbs; Morrow, Vangrimbergen (5), Patton (6) and Vannatter. W-Chamberlain. L-Morrow.

HITS: Pullman-Linehan 2, O’Fallon, Chamberlain, Hobbs 2, Cummings 3, Meyers, Wilson, Burns 2. Riverside-Beckham, Lee, Morrow, Loosier 2, Vannatter, Vangrimbergen. 2B-Hobbs, Wilson, Morrow, Loosier 2. 3B-O’Fallon, Cummings, Burns.

Frontier boys soccer

East Valley 4, Cheney 2

Tony Pass scored three goals in a match for the second time this year as the visiting Knights (6-0-0, 18 points) topped the Blackhawks (5-1-0, 15) to break a first-place tie.

Cheney’s Nick Reynolds scored his 14th goal. He has two or more goals in every other league match.

First half-1, EV, Pass (Misterek), 17:00. 2, Che, Reynolds (Gosse), 23:00. 3, EV, Pass (Misterek), 37:00. Second half-4, EV, Pass, 42:00. 5, EV, Swenson (Whitney), 52:00. 6, Che, Malisani (Oyolokor), 62:00.

Shots on goal-East Valley 12, Cheney 10. Saves-East Valley, Escobar 6. Cheney, Stitt 7.

Riverside/DP 5, Colville 0

Ryan Baker scored three times, two on breakaways, to give him 11 for the year as visiting R/DP (5-1-0, 15) beat the Indians (1-5-0, 3) to tie for second place.

First half - 1, R/DP, Ziehnert (Dauber), 15:00. 2, R/DP, Baker, 23:00. 3, R/DP, Emch, 31:00. Second half - 4, R/DP, Baker 27:00. 5, R/DP, Baker 34:00.

Shots on goal - Riverside/Deer Park 15, Colville 9. Saves - Riverside/Deer Park, Nelson, 3. Colville, Covey (5), Salter (6).

West Valley 5, Pullman 0

Chadd MacKay, pulled out of the first half and instructed to shoot the ball, scored three times within 6 minutes of the second half as the Eagles (4-2-0, 12) beat the visiting Greyhounds (0-5-1, 1).

On WV’s second goal, Ben Brattebo took the ball down the right side and crossed it to Nick Young for a volley to the near post.

First half - 1, WV, Sharpe (pen.kick), 14:00. 2, WV, Young (Brattebo), 36:00. Second half - 3, WV, MacKay (T.Wacenske), 41:00. 4, WV, MacKay (S.Wacenske), 43:00. 5, WV, MacKay (Sharpe), 47:00.

Shots on goal - Pullman 2, West Valley 22. Saves - Pullman, Lopez 14. West Valley, Kuntz 1.

Medical Lake 1, Clarkston 0

Andy John scored on a penalty kick with 6 minutes left as the visiting Cardinals (1-4-1, 4) beat the Bantams (1-5-0, 3).

First half - none. Second half - 1, John (penalty kick) 74:00.

Shots on goal - Medical Lake 7, Clarkston 10. Saves - Medical Lake, Denman 9. Clarkston, Legg 6.

Frontier softball

Colville 26, Pullman 0

Tarrah Brown and Melissa Wollan combined on a one-hitter, and Brown drove in six runs to lead the Indians (3-1) over the visiting Greyhounds (0-4).

Mandy Lawson and Ellen Shaw had three RBIs apiece. Pullman has just six hits all season.

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Colville 08(10) 8x - 26 18 2

Parrish and Schultz; T.Brown, Wollan (3) and Lawson. W-Wollan (2-0). L-Parrish.

HITS: Pullman-Thompson. Colville-H.Brown, Cox, Lawson 3, T.Brown 3, Shaw 2, Wollan 2, Simpson 2, Puett, Entwistle, True 2. 2B-Lawson. 3B-T.Brown 2.

Panorama League baseball

NWC 20, St. Michael’s 1

Sophomore Eric Bell, making his first start, pitched a five-inning no-hitter as the Crusaders completed a sweep of the visiting Warriors.

Bell struck out six and walked three. SM scored in the second on a walk, two wild pitches and a sacrifice.

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