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A weekend trip to Orofino’s Trevor Haag Memorial tournament ended with a 4-2 record for the Colfax 12-under team, enough to land them in fifth place. They posted the run with just nine players on the squad.
Colfax will take a break this weekend and then depart for Colville on their last tourney trip Aug. 5-7 to play in the Bob Haney Memorial tournament.
The run at Orofino ended with the Colfax club topping Pullman Heat 13-3 in Sunday’s placing game. Colfax also took a one-run win over the Heat in the last round Saturday.
Colfax started the Orofino run Friday with a 12-0 shutout of the LC Sabers. Danny Robinson and Parker Huber pitched the shutout. Robinson batted 3-3 and scored twice. Hogan Heytvelt, the team’s Pomeroy recruit, hit 2-3 and also scored twice. Bryson Fry of Colfax hit a pair on singles and scored twice in the opener.
Colfax then booked a 12-2 win over the host Orofino team with Glenn Gosse, Cal Gregory and Heytvelt pitching. The O club scored both of their runs in the first inning but were shut out for the balance of the game.
Colfax added four runs in the second inning and kept stacking them through the fifth.
Hitters for Colfax against the hosts were Parker Huber, double and single; Gregory, triple and two singles; Robinson, two doubles, and Gosse, double and two singles. Gregory scored three times.
Saturday morning Colfax and Colville locked in a 0-0 battle until the northerners scored three runs in the top of the sixth inning. That was all the scoring in the shutout.
Robinson and Gregory each had two singles against the tough Colville pitching.
Colfax Saturday afternoon matched up for their first game with Pullman Heat and came out with a 4-3 win. Colfax led 3-0 after three innings before the Heat scored three in the fourth. Colfax added a run in the fourth to keep the lead and neither team scored in the fifth and sixth innings.
After posting a 3-1 mark in pool play, Colfax crossed over to the tourney’s other pool and bowed 5-6 to the Bitteroot Rockies. Bitteroot, which trailed for the first four innings, scored four runs in the fifth to take the lead. Colfax bounced back for two in the sixth, not enough to reclaim the lead and the win. Huber and Robinson each tagged a homer and a single.
Gosse, Robinson and Gregory pitched. Gosse homered, singled and scored twice. Huber and Gregory each hit 1-2, and Logan Gingerich and Brody Yarnell each tagged a single.
Colfax took a 3-2 tourney record into the Sunday morning final and again topped Pullman Heat, this time with a 13-3 score.
The game lasted just four innings with Colfax leading 11-1 after the third innings.
Robinson and Gregory pitched for Colfax.
Peyton Broennneke, Cooper Larsen and Payton Utzman pitched for Pullman.
Huber and Robinson each tagged a homer and single in the second Pullman game. Gregory doubled and singled and scored three times and Fry paired singles and scored twice.
Kyle Zakarison, Larsen, Broenneke, and Alex Pan-Cooke each had a hit for Pullman.
Hunter Cox from Pullman Heat won the Trevor Haag inspirational award at the Orofino tournament. He was selected from among 200 players in the tourney for outstanding sportsmanship, effort and positive attitude on and off the field.
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