Colfax baseball adds four league wins

Colfax baseball players added four league wins to their record over the week by sweeping St. George’s in a double at McDonald Field Saturday and taking two more league wins on the road at Davenport Tuesday.

The run of four leaves Colfax with an 11-3 record in third place with other league teams lagging in the number of games played.

Lind/Ritzville Broncos, who swept Colfax in the league opener, now leads the league with an 11-1 mark, and Northwest Christian has a 10-2 mark with games to make up.

Colfax will travel to Northwest Christian for their next league outing Tuesday.

Colfax sophomore Patrick Jacobs allowed the Gorillas just four hits in the opener Tuesday at Davenport for the 10-6 win. Jacobs put the win on his tally sheet despite seven errors on the part of the Colfax defense. The Colfax sophomore fanned nine Gorillas and walked just three.

Colfax offset the errors with 12 hits with Bryce Kramlich booking two singles and two triples.

The Bulldogs led 4-1 after the first three innings and capped it with three runs in the top of the sixth.

Also hitting for Colfax in the first game were Brady Ellis, single and double; Jaime Bledsoe, single; John Mellor, single; Brock Morgan, double, and Conner Appel, single.

In the second game, Colfax closed it down 13-2 after six innings with Ellis on the mound. He held the G club to just four hits, struck out eight and walked just two. Mellor’s bat came to life in the second game with a double and two triples. He finished with six RBIs in the nightcap.

Colfax tagged 15 hits in the second game.

Ellis hit three singles; Morgan, single and double, and Austin Getz, two singles. Also getting hits were Kramlich, Jacobs, Bledsoe, Dillon Aeschliman and Mark Webber.

Saturday at McDonald Field, Jacobs threw a perfect game at the St. George’s Dragons over five frames. The feat meant 15 Dragon batters went down in a row without getting a hit.

Colfax took the opener Saturday 12-0 with six hits led by a double by Kramlich. Colfax led the young Dragons 11-0 after three innings.

The Bulldogs took a 19-6 win in the second game with 12 hits. They scored six runs in the first inning and smothered the Dragons with 10 more in the bottom of the fourth.

St. George’s rallied in the fifth for four runs, not enough to erase the 10-run Colfax gap.

Kramlich doubled and Ellis tripled to top Colfax bats in the second game.