Crawdads place third in playoff

Colfax Crawdads finished in third place in the Senior Babe Ruth fall league playoff over the weekend at Rogers High School in Spokane.

Top eight finishers in the 15-team league run qualify for the playoffs with the teams matched up in inverse order for the first round Saturday in an elimination round.

The locals started the playoffs Saturday with a 4-2 win over the Spokane Marlins in the elimination round. Christian Palomo of Pullman struck out six Marlins in taking the win. Patrick Jacobs had RBI hits in the third and fifth inning and Brent Becker had an RBI in the first inning.

In the next r...