Colfax stacks playoff win

Colfax softball players crunched Liberty 15-3 over five innings in the first playoff round Tuesday night at McDonald Park.

The win puts Colfax in the number-two slot for the district round next week at the Merkey complex in north Spokane.

Liberty will also make the trip to Spokane. The two clubs from Colfax and the two from the Northwest Christian round will play for seeding slots in the regional eliminations for the following week.

Liberty, the number- three finisher in the league race, started the Tuesday action at McDonald Park with a 12-2 win over Reardan in the first game. The loss ended Reardan’s season.

Colfax in the next round booked a 7-1 lead in the first inning of the second game and took it over the 10-run margin with a five run outburst in the bottom of the fourth.

Bulldog pitcher Erica Eng allowed the Lancers just three hits in the playoff round. She fanned five Lancers and walked four.

Eng also led the Bulldog bats with a single and triple for four RBIs. Senior catcher Rachel Robinson hit two singles and a double for three RBIs in her last game on the home field.

Kori Goodwin had three singles, and Kasey Cloaninger had two. Also tagging a rap for Colfax were Brittany Lewis, Amara Huber and Andra Hamilton.

In Friday’s makeup twinbill at McDonald Park against Waitsburg /Prescott, the Bulldogs again ran into another SE power team. The visitors took the first game 8-4 with 11 hits and controlled the action most of the way.

Both teams had a string of errors with the Bulldogs charged with 14 over the two games.

Coach Terry Eng noted only two of the eight WP runs in the first game were earned.

Pitcher Erica Eng allowed 11 hits, struck out six and walked two batters.

The Bulldogs had nine hits with Eng tagging two singles and a double, and Robinson rapping a triple. Hitting singles were Lewis, Goodwin, Cloaninger, Roxanne Allenbach and Huber.

Waitsburg took the second game 15-10. The game score was 4-3 for the Cards after four frames before the scoring explosion, boosted by errors on both sides, turned out the run barrage in the last three frames.

Kasey Cloaninger pitched the first five innings for the Bulldogs in the second game, and Eng pitched the last two. The duo allowed WP batters 12 hits, struck out two and walked seven.

Colfax took the loss despite booking 13 hits with Hamilton tagging three singles, and Eng hitting two singles.

All the other hits were singles, one each by Lewis , Sidney Sheer, Goodwin, Robinson, Cloaninger, Allenbach, Huber and Sarah Appel.

The two losses finished off the Bulldogs’ regular season at 12-8 going into the first playoff round Tuesday.