Colfax to host 1B playoff

Four SE qualifiers will be in Colfax Saturday for the first round of the state baseball playoffs. Touchet, the top team, will play Colton at 10 a.m. and St. John/Endicott and TCP will play in the 2-3 game at 1 p.m. Winners of those two rounds will play in a seeding game.

The two qualifiers out of the SE Colfax round will advance to a four-team regional round May 22 at Eisenhower in the Yakima Valley.

COLTON Monday defeated Orofino 9-6 in a non-leaguer with Bricyn Abdul giving up seven hits and striking out five. The game launched on a 3-3 tie in the first inning, and Colton broke out to a lead with four runs in the third. Bernie Druffel doubled and Chase Druffel, Abdul, and Josh Straughan had the other hits for Colton.

The Wildcats Saturday dropped two games at Asotin in a 1B-2B matchup. Asotin won the first game 15-1 on a 16 hit attack against three Colton pitchers.

The Panthers won 6-5 in the second game with the winning runs scoring in the bottom of the seventh inning. Panther Jesse Davis singled for the walk-off RBI. The Panthers had 14 hits in the second game.

Pat Lutskas and Andrew Tietjen had three of the of the eight Colton hits in the second game with Lutskas getting a triple.

Undefeated Touchet leads the 1B playoff pack.

The 1B SE playoff will be at Colfax Saturday with Colton going up against undefeated Touchet and St. John/Endicott playing Tri-Cities Prep in the second game.

Winners of those two games will play off for seeding in the regional round.

ST. JOHN/ENDICOTT will roll to Colfax after splitting a double with TCP in Pasco Tuesday. The Jags took the first game 11-8 and the Eagles took a one-run win 8-7 in the second round.

TCP in the first game stacked seven runs in the first two innings and the Eagle played catch-up. Ben Harrison pitched the opener. Each side had 12 hits.

In the second game the Eagles posted a 7-3 lead after three frames and scored one more in the fifth. Mason Van Lith allowed 10 hits in pegging the win. TCP had 10 hits.

LaCROSSE/WASHTUCNA finsihed their return to baseball with the split over Pomeroy. The young Tigercat team picked up a lot of experience with three eighth grades and two exchange students on the club. Coach Dan Hill expects eight starters back next season and hopes to pick up enough recruits to collect on the experience.