Longview Rips Blue Devils In State Legion Tournament

The Spokane Blue Devils fell to 0-2 Sunday at the Senior American Legion state baseball tournament in Vancouver.

Longview pounded out 16 hits en route to a 13-3 victory.

Ray Bowser’s RBI single in the bottom of the third inning staked Spokane to a 1-0 lead, but Longview came right back to score four runs in the top of the fourth and never trailed.

The Blue Devils (22-21) play Richland today at 4 p.m.

Federal Way scored four runs in the third inning then held off Spokane’s South Hill All-Stars for a 5-2 victory that decided the state Pony League championship at Seattle.

The All-Stars came back in the last of the seventh when Shawn O’Brien doubled then stole home. The team of 13 and 14-year-olds completed its season with a 9-2 record.

Junior Olympics

Ben Poffenroth-Green of Spokane placed seventh in the midget boys division 1,500 meters as the USATF Junior Olympics concluded at Seattle.

Poffenroth-Green was timed in 4 minutes, 50.60 seconds. Winner Chris Dominic of San Francisco stopped the timer in 4:33.50.

Motorsports

Andy Brown has been as hot as the weather lately in Northwest Mini-Supers winning his fifth straight main event Saturday night at Stateline Speedway.

Rob Vest won for the third straight week in Hobby Stocks, while Mark Jones was winning for a second time in Compact Streets. Bill Husk (Fever Four Hobby’s) and Steve Cantrell (Street Stocks) were first-time winners.

In the featured 100-lap Interstate Superstock race, Ephrata’s Christian Roeder picked up his first victory of the season.

Mark Wakefield won for a second straight week and logged his fifth Hobby Stock victory of the season at Spokane Raceway Park. Rick Rice notched his second Fever Four win in three weeks, and John Gamble grabbed his first Street Stock win of the season.

On the drag strip, Brandon Traynham won for the second straight week and seventh time this season in Street Eliminator. Ron Schnell won for the first time in two months in Super Pro, while Kenny Newitt and the K-n-K Racin” team raced to their first Pro Eliminator victory.

At Yakima, Garrett Evans of Orondo, Wash., won his second consecutive NASCAR Northwest Series race and third overall and continued to close the gap on points leader Gary Lewis.