After 0-3 Start, Saxons Catapult To Third In Gsl

Ferris’ softball team has skyrocketed from last place in the Greater Spokane League to third place in a matter of five days.

Jenny Lytle hit a three-run homer in the seventh and Kylee Curry won her fourth game in five days as visiting Ferris defeated Shadle Park 9-6 Saturday.

Both teams are 4-3, tied with Mead and Central Valley for third place. Ferris began the year 0-3 after leading all three games.

Ferris’ Amanda Ovlen hit a two-run homer in the fourth. Shadle walked 10 Saxons, five of whom scored.

Ferris 9, Shadle Park 6

Ferris 300 210 3 - 9 9 2

Shadle 001 103 1 - 6 7 4

Curry and Rudell; Stockman, Rice (4) and Drake. W-Curry (5-3). L-Stockman (3-3).

HITS: Ferris-Domonouski, Lytle 2, Curry, Ovlen, Meeker, Blevins, Ganey, Rudero. Shadle Park-Buckley 3, Drake, Rice 2, Madden. 3B-Blevins. HR-Lytle (3), Ovlen (1), Rice (1).

Colville 6-10, Clarkston 0-0

Tarrah Brown threw a seven-inning one-hitter in the opener, and combined with Melissa Wollan on a five-inning one-hitter in the second game as the second-place Indians (6-1) swept the visiting Bantams (2-5) in the Frontier League.

Rachel Cox hit a fifth-inning three-run homer in the opener and Brown struck out 13. Mandy Lawson had two RBIs in the second game.

Clarkston 000 000 0 - 0 1 1

Colville 110 040 x - 6 12 0

Gates and King, Compton (6); T.Brown and Lawson. W-T.Brown (3-1). L-Gates (1-3).

HITS: Clarkston-Gates. Colville-H.Brown, Tripp, Lawson 2, T.Brown 2, Shaw, Cox 2, Wollan 2, True. 2B-Lawson, T.Brown. 3B-True. HR-Cox (1).

Clarkston 000 00 - 0 1 6

Colville 144 1x - 10 12 3

Snell and King; T.Brown, Wollan (3) and Lawson. W-Wollan (3-0). L-Snell (0-1).

HITS: Clarkston-Gribble. Colville-H.Brown 2, Tripp, Lawson 2, Shaw, Cox, Wollan, Entwistle 3, True. 3B-Gribble, Entwistle.

Cheney 11-13, Pullman 1-0

Ginger Ewing finished the day 8 for 8, including four bunt singles, to guide the Blackhawks (2-6) in a Frontier sweep of the visiting Greyhounds (0-7).

Ewing scored five runs. Cheney’s Kria Bliss struck out seven in the opener.

Pullman 001 00 - 1 8 2

Cheney 301 25 - 11 11 2

Parish and Hobbs; Bliss and Bogle. W-Bliss (2-6). L-Parish. HITS: Pullman-Thompson, Parish, Hobbs, Pollastro 2, Esvelt, Keck 2. Cheney-Ewing 4, Bogle, Olson 2, Birchler, Montague, Bliss, Grant. 2B-Bogle.

Pullman 000 00 - 0 2 2

Cheney 245 2x - 13 12 0

Parish and Shultz; Bliss, Urdahl (3) and Beeman. W-Urdahl (1-0). L-Parish.

HITS: Pullman-White 2. Cheney-Ewing 4, Smith 2, Olson, Birchell 2, Grant, Beeman 2. 2B-White, Beeman 2.

Baseball

Pullman 11, East Valley 6

Kurt Druffel went 2 for 3 with two RBIs to help the visiting Greyhounds (3-6) over the Knights (4-6) in the Frontier League.

EV’s Brian Lamarche hit a solo homer in the second. The second game of the scheduled doubleheader was rained out.

Pullman 200 321 3 (11) 8 4

EV 010 030 2 - 6 5 2

McDonald and Hobbs; Allen, Burnett (5), Reise (7), and Stengle. W-McDonald (1-4). L-Allen (0-2).

HITS: Pullman-Linehan 2, Druffel 2, Myers 3, Smith. East Valley-Faseno, Lamphere, Lamarche 2, Ford. HR-Lamarche (1).

Clarkston 12, Riverside 0

J.D. Burns and Jason Romesburg combined on a one-hitter as the visiting Bantams (6-4) defeated the Rams (1-8) at Chattaroy to creep closer to second-place Colville (5-3) in the Frontier.

Clarkston 211 116 x - 12 8 1

Riverside 000 000 0 - 0 1 4

Burns, Romesburg (6) and Lammerding; Beckham, Vangrimbergem (5), Gable (6) and Vannatter. W-Burns. L-Beckham.

HITS: Clarkston-Romesburg, Burns 2, McCall, Larson, Kruse, Blankenship 2. Riverside-Morrow. 2B-Romesburg. 3B-Blankenship.

Colville at West Valley (2), ppd.

Rain washed out the Frontier doubleheader, which was rescheduled for 1 p.m. Monday.

Freeman 18, Deer Park 7

Senior cleanup hitter Kenny Beeler hit for the cycle as the visiting Scotties (2-3) beat the Stags (0-5) in the Northeast A.

In order, Beeler had a ground-rule double, tripled to right, homered to left, walked and singled.

Chewelah 12-1, Colfax 1-0

Chris Eggleston and Eric King both threw no-hitters, and the Cougars (5-1) turned three double plays during an NEA sweep of the visiting Bulldogs (3-3).

Frontier boys soccer

Riverside/Deer Park 8, Pullman 0

Ryan Baker had three assists and scored twice, giving him 13 goals on the season, as R/DP (6-2-0, 18 points) stopped the visiting Greyhounds (0-8-1, 1) at Riverside.

Jason Remington and Jeff Westenskow also scored twice. R/DP goalkeeper Jeremy Nelson notched his third shutout. When the teams first met, R/DP won 3-2.

SCORING: First half-1, Ziehnert (Baker), 5:00. 2, Remington (Baker), 14:00. 3, Daubel (Baker), 19:00. 4, Westenskow (Hodson), 36:00. Second half- 5, Remington (penalty kick), 50:00. 6, Westenskow (Krohn), 59:00. 7, Baker (Hodson), 65:00. 8, Baker (Ziehnert), 71:00.

Shots on goal-Pullman 9, Riverside/Deer Park 19. Saves- Pullman, Daoud 10. Riverside/Deer Park, Nelson 7.

Clarkston 2, Colville 1

Will Smith scored twice to guide the host Bantams (4-5-0, 12) to their second 2-1 win over the Indians (1-7-0, 3).

Bryan Skinner fed Micah Throop for Colville’s lone score.

SCORING: First half -Cl, Smith ( Lohrmeyer) 4:00, 2, Col, Throop Skinner) 27:00. Second half -1, Cl, Smith 48:0.

Shots on goal-Colville 17, Clarkston 25. Saves-Colville, Covey 8. Clarkston,, Legg 11.

Track and field

Inland Empire Invitational

Lewiston’s boys and East Valley’s girls came away easy winners in the meet at the University of Idaho.

Lewiston’s depth and sprinters led to 143.5 points and a win over 14 boys teams.

EV’s girls used their depth in the distances to post 121 points. Orofino was next with 70 and Post Falls third with 67.

Brad Rice won the 200-meter run in 23.29 seconds; David Taylor set a meet record in the 3,200 (10:11.2); Mickey Hewitt captured the 300 hurdles (42.51); and Rick McCrery won the long jump (21 feet, 3/4 inches) for Lewiston.

Matt Hill of Grangeville (172-6 discus) and teammate Ryan Carver (1:56.35 in the 800, 4:29.26 in the 1,600) set meet records.

Korinda Godwin in the 3,200 (12:24.76) and Ann Marie Adams in the 800 (2:26.07) won for EV.

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