Prep roundup: Bears double up Bombers

Austin Bergdahl was a two-headed monster for the Central Valley Bears on Tuesday in a 4A Regional loser-out tilt against the Richland Bombers in Richland.

Bergdahl allowed two first-inning runs and then surrendered just one hit the rest of the way and helped his cause with a two-run home run to power the Bears to a 4-2 victory.

Central Valley will travel to Walla Walla to take on Greater Spokane League rival University in a loser-out game on Saturday.

District 7 2A

John Sage drove in six runs with a triple and a pair of doubles and the West Valley Eagles rallied late to post an 11-10 victory over the visiting Cheney Blackhawks in a matchup to determine the top two seeds to regionals. Blake Davis allowed two runs in three innings of relief to get the win for West Valley.

District 7 1A

Hudson Petek drove in two runs with a bases-loaded single in the top of the sixth inning to propel the Medical Lake Indians to a 3-1 victory over the host Lakeside Eagles in a loser-out game. Rudy Cordova had three hits for Lakeside. The Indians travel to Freeman to take on the Scotties in the semifinal round of district.

• Brandon Coy plated the winning run on a suicide squeeze with one out in the bottom of the seventh inning to lift the Deer Park Stags to a 6-5 win over the visiting Chewelah Cougars in a loser-out game. It was Deer Park’s first postseason baseball win in more than 25 years. The Stags travel to Colville to take on the Indians today in the other semifinal.

1B subregional

Liberty Christian scored three runs in the top of the fifth inning and held on to beat Colton 3-2 in Ritzville to advance to Saturday’s semifinals.

Liberty Christian opened the tourney with a 6-2 win over Curlew. Curlew and Colton will play in loser-out games on Friday.

Track and field

Scout Cai won two field events to propel the Colfax Bulldogs to the District 7 2B title in Ritzville. Cai won the pole vault, clearing 11 feet, 3 inches and the shot put with a toss of 32-3 1/4.

Colfax had 109 points, eight in front of runner-up Lind-Ritzville.

St. George’s outscored Northwest Christian 98-84 for the boys title.