PREP SOFTBALL: Badgers finish season 11-11
Bonners Ferry High sophomore Jennifer Petersen readies to release a pitch during the first game of the 4A District 1 Championship best-of-three series against Timberlake on Monday.
Photo by Jason Duchow Photography
SPIRIT LAKE – The Bonners Ferry Badgers dropped two straight against the Timberlake Tigers to close out the season with a .500 record of 11-11, a strong year despite competing with a roster of mostly freshmen and sophomores.
The Timberlake Tigers (15-3) has also been competing well with a young roster. The two key performers in the team’s shutout 6-0 victory on May 5 in the 4A District 1 championship game were both freshmen.
Tigers pitcher Shae Jones struck out 11 in a four-hit shutout. Tigers freshman Alannah Winland went 2 for 3 with three RBIs as the top-seeded Tigers beat the second-seeded Badgers.
Since Timberlake swept Bonners Ferry in their three Intermountain League games, the Tigers needed only to win Monday’s first game of a best-of-3 series for the district title to advance to state.
Timberlake advances to state May 15-17 at Skyview High in Nampa.
DISTRICT CHAMPIONSHIP GAME
Bonnes Ferry 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 – 0 4 2
Timberlake 3 0 1 0 2 0 X – 6 11 0
PITCHING: BF – Peteresen (L): 6IP, 11H, 6R, 2BB, 4K. TL – Jones (W): 7IP, 4H, 0R, 2BB, 11K.
BATTING: HITS: BF – Frederickson 2, Short 1, Frago 1. TL – Kitchin 2, Winland 2, Jones 2, Needs 1, Allaway 1, McCune 1, Green 1, Lee 1. 2B: BF – Short 1. TL – Allaway 1, McCune 1, Jones 1. RBI: TL – Winland 3, Kitckin 1, Jones 1, McCune 1.