SOFTBALL: Badgers end season, Timberlake nabs fifth straight district title
JASON DUCHOW PHOTOGRAPHY Marissa Needs of Timberlake slides safely into third base as Bonners Ferry third baseman Jaydin Falck covers Thursday in Spirit Lake, in Game 2 of a best-of-3 series for the 3A District 1 softball title.
SPIRIT LAKE — Acacia Pecor struck out 10, walked one and pitched a two-hitter, and the top-seeded Timberlake Tigers beat the second-seeded Bonners Ferry Badgers 12-2 in six innings on Thursday to sweep their best-of-3 series for the 3A District 1 title.
Timberlake won its fifth straight district title, and 17th district title since 2000.
Reese Allaway had two hits and drove in three runs for Timberlake (14-8), which advances to state May 16-18 at the Moscow School District Community Playfields.
Bonners Ferry finished 4-15.
Alillah Dykes delivered a two-run single as Timberlake took a 3-0 lead in the bottom of the second inning. Allaway singled in a pair of runs in the third as the Tigers went up 6-0.
Allaway’s single in the sixth inning scored Casey Whaley to end the game on the 10-run rule.
“Acacia pitched a great game today for us,” Timberlake coach Casi Lupinacci said. “We did a good job of stringing together hits and creating chaos on the base paths. If we can continue to play this well we will make a run at the (state) tournament.”
Whaley and Marissa Needs each scored three runs for Timberlake.
Bonners Ferry 000 200 — 2 2 7
Timberlake 033 321 — 12 8 1
Taylor Sumpter, Jodee Curtis (6) and Ava Frederickson, Rebekah McBride (x); Acacia Pecor and Logan Walsh.
HITS: BF — A. Frederickson, K. Sumpter. TL — Dykes 2, Kitchin, Walsh, Whaley, Cameron, Allaway 2. 2B — Ava Frederickson, Kitchin, Walsh.