Baseball Roundup: 12-game winning streak, looking to districts
Bonners Ferry 3, Timberlake 0
BONNERS FERRY — The Tigers and Badgers tuned up for their upcoming best-of-3 series for the 3A District 1 title next week with a pitchers’ duel in their Intermountain League finale.
Trey Bateman pitched a two-hit shutout for Bonners Ferry (16-6), and Caden Robinett struck out 13, walked none and allowed five hits for Timberlake (9-11).
Trey Bateman went 3 for 3 with an RBI double in the first inning for Bonners, which took advantage of a Timberlake error to add two more runs in the fourth.
"Trey did a lot of work today," Bonners Ferry coach Tom Turpin said. "And Robinett, he was bringing it today."
Monday’s game, the fifth league meeting of the season between the two teams, was designed as a de facto tiebreaker. But since Bonners Ferry had already won three of the first four meetings with the Tigers, the Badgers had already earned the right to host next week’s district championship series.
Games are scheduled for Monday and Wednesday, and Thursday if necessary, all at 5 p.m. in Bonners Ferry.
Timberlake 000 000 0 — 0 2 1
Bonners Ferry 100 200 x — 3 5 0
Caden Robinett and JT Armes; Trey Bateman and Teigan Banning.
HITS: TL — Wells, Holly. BF — Bl. Rice, Tr. Bateman 3, Fess. 2B — Tr. Bateman.
Badgers crush Kellogg for Senior Night
Bonners Ferry 11-10
Kellogg 10-6
BONNERS FERRY —- Bottom of the seventh, bases loaded, two outs and tied 10 all, on the first pitch Trey Bateman launched the ball to back fence for the Badgers (15-6) giving them the win over Kellogg in game one of a double header 11-10 on Friday for Senior Night.
The game ended 11-10, due to the game ending once the first Badger base runner hit home plate.
In game 1, Trey Bateman led the Badgers with five RBIs, three hits, a home run and batting average .750.
In the fifth inning, senior Porter Schulte for Bonners Ferry earned three RBIs hitting a double and giving the Badgers an 8-1 lead.
The Wildcats came back hammering in four and five runs in the final inning tying it all up.
In game 2, the Badgers led 2-0 in the first and went on to score five runs in the third, leading 6-3. The Badgers won 10-6.
Game 1
Kellogg 100 004 5—10
BF 102 142 1—-11
HITS—BF: 1, Br. Rice, Banning, Naylor, Schulte, Hammons; 2, Bl. Rice, Th. Bateman; 3 Tr. Bateman. K: 1, Clapper, Coberty, Smith, Graaskamp, Eixenberger; 2, K. Luna and Whatcott.
GAME 2
Kellogg 012 03x xx 6—-4 2
BF 215 2– 10—5 0
HITS—BF: 1, Dahl, Bl. Rice, Th. Bateman, Tr. Bateman, Hammons; 2, Banning. K: 1, Clapper, K. Luna, Whatcott; 2, Fields.