Homers Spell Doom For Cards

Chris Gillette shaved North Idaho College with a solo home run Saturday.

Gillette’s blast provided the difference as College of Southern Idaho edged the visiting Cardinals 5-4 in a Region 18 baseball game at Twin Falls.

All of CSI’s runs came off homers. Dion Washington’s two-run shot in the fourth off starter and loser Sean Boesch was the lone non-solo homer.

NIC’s Joel Gorham homered twice.

CSI 5, North Idaho 4

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CSI 000 301 10x - 5 9 1

Boesch, Anstine (6), Caron (8) and Pindell; Wildeman, Nakaishi (4), Penner (5), Iverson (7), Cameron (8), Macleod (9) and Merritt. W-Nakaishi. L-Boesch. S-Macleod.

HITS: North Idaho College-Nelson, Bevacqua, Wilson, Bay, Lynch 2, Gorham 4. College of Southern Idaho-Silvey 2, Gillette, Gretz 2, Merritt, Washington, Cameron, Panaro. 2B-Siley, Wilson, Lynch. HR-Gorham 2 (4), Gillette, Merritt, Washington, Cameron.

Willamette 15-6, Whitworth 2-4

Chad Ripke, in the seventh, and Miguel Saldin, in the eighth, had two-out, RBI singles as the Pirates (13-17, 11-3) won the nightcap to earn a Northwest Conference of Independent Colleges split with the visiting Bearcats (21-10, 12-5).

Sam Fleming worked out of trouble in the sixth and ninth to win for Whitworth. Tim Bishop’s three-run homer in the first gave the Pirates a 4-1 lead, but Willamette tied the game thanks to Mitch Gregg’s two-run blast.

Ryan Flynn and Burke Eathorne homered, and Flynn had four RBIs as the Bearcats rolled in the opener. Mike Corey pitched a complete game, allowing just Eric Brown’s two-run homer.

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Corey and Kelly; McDougal, Yoshihara (5), Radke (7) and Chimienti, Schuerman (7). W-Corey (6-2). L-McDougal (3-4).

HITS: Willamette-Kelly, Cox 2, Zavislak, Flynn 2, Hazelbaker, Heath, Eathorne, Ohlsen 2, Edelrock, Westwood. Whitworth-Saldin, Arthaud, Ripke, Chimienti, Brown 2. 2B-Ohlsen, Flynn, Ripke. HR-Flynn (6), Eathorne (2), Brown (2).

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Kosderka and Kelly; Fleming and Schuerman. W-Fleming (5-4). L-Kosderka (7-3). HITS: Willamette-Kelly 2, Cox, Flynn, Hall 2, Eathorne 2, Gregg 2. Whitworth-Saldin 3, Arthaud 2, Francek 2, Bishop, Ripke 2, Schuerman 2, Fischer. 2B-Earthorne, Flynn, Kelly, Saldin. HR-Gregg (2), Bishop (8).

WSU 9-12, PSU 2-10

Jason Hairston’s two-out, two-run homer in the bottom of the ninth of the second game gave the Cougars (11-33, 6-9) a sweep of their Pacific-10 Conference North doubleheader with the visiting Vikings (9-33, 2-11).

The Cougars have won six consecutive games. Portland State has dropped five straight, all to WSU.

Dave Wheeler went the distance in the opener to become the Cougars’ first three-game winner. Mike Schneider (2-0), who pitched the ninth in relief of Todd Belitz, picked up the win in the nightcap. The teams conclude their five-game weekend series this afternoon.

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Maddox, Walker (6) and Andrade; Wheeler and Hairston. W-Wheeler (3-7). L-Maddox (3-5). HITS: Portland State-Keith, Burke, Schetzsle 2, Andrade 2, Manuokian. Washington State-Stevenson 2, Randall 2, Kelley, Hairston, Mitchell 2, Robinson 2, Gleason. 2B-Burke. 3B-Stevenson. HR-Gleason (1), Kelley (6).

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Oyler, Darling (5) and Boslar, Andrade; Belitz, Schneider (9) and Smith, Hairston. W-Schneider (2-0). L-Darling (1-2).

HITS: Portland State-Keith 4, Case 3, Burke 3, Southall 3, Boslar 2, Schetzsle, Manuokian. Washington State- Stevenson 2, Randall 2, Curran 3, Kelley, Mitchell 2, Robinson 2, Hattenburg, Hairston. 2B-Boslar, Keith, Mitchell, Robinson, Stevenson. HR-Burke 2 (6), Case (3), Southall (10), Curran (5), Hairston (10), Kelley (7).

CCS 9-1, Yakima Valley 4-4

Adam Flohr threw a complete game and Chad Kline reached 40 RBIs with his 13th and 14th doubles as the visiting Sasquatch won the opening game of a Northwest Athletic Association of Community Colleges doubleheader with the Indians.

Michael Penny of CCS added three hits and two RBIs in the opener. The Sasquatch bats went silent in the second game, but Kline had two more hits.

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Flohr and Zarfas; Yates and Love. W-Flohr (5-3). L-Yates.

HITS: Community Colleges of Spokane-Kline 3, Davis, Penney 3, Zarfas Crandall. Yakima Valley Community College-Taylor 2, Kennedy 2, Neumeyer, Mitzel, Crow, Leon 3. 2B-Kline 2, Crandall, Kennedy, Neumeyer, Leon. 3B-Davis.

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Higgins and Hare, Zarfas (6); Hill and Love. W-Hill. L-Higgins (2-4).

HITS: Community Colleges of Spokane-Hare 2, Kline 2, Crandall. Yakima Valley Community College-Taylor 2, Kennedy 2, Rogers 3, Rhodes, Leon 2, Doll. 2B-Taylor, Rogers.

Women’s tennis

Big West semifinals

Sixth-seeded Idaho upset No. 2 Long Beach State 5-4 at Ojai, Calif., to advance to today’s championship against Boise State.

Idaho split six singles matches with LBS but won two of three doubles matches. Idaho clinched the win when its No. 2 doubles team, Rachel Dive and Liza Mulholland, beat Andrea Avent and Veronica Selby 8-6.

Boise State, seeded No. 1, beat Nevada 5-1 in the other semifinal. BSU knocked off six-time conference champ UC Santa Barbara 5-0 Friday.

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