Two wins advance Colfax to regional

Two solid baseball wins in the NE finals at Medical Lake put Colfax in the top slot for the regional rounds which have been booked for May 20. Coach Mike Parrish said the Bulldogs will play in Spokane against the number-two finisher of district six. That foe was yet to be named as of Tuesday night.

The state regionals are the playoff round of 16 in which four teams hook up at four sites around the state. The two-game winner at each site advances to the state show which will be back at Centralia May 26-27.

Northwest Christian, third place finisher Monday at Medical Lake, will also play in Spokane. Number-two Asotin will play at Yakima, and number-four Kettle Falls will have to travel all the way to Anacortes.

Colfax Monday topped Kettle Falls 11-1 in the first game and then topped Asotin 8-3 in the second game.

"They were both great games for us," coach Parrish said. "We had solid pitching and solid defense."

Colfax had just one error for the two games.

In the 11-1 win over Kettle in the opener, the Bulldogs scored eight runs in the third inning and held Kettle scoreless until the sixth inning when they looped their lone run.

Colfax came back in the bottom of the frame to score three and shut the game down on the 10-run rule.

The Bulldogs had eight hits in the opener.

Colfax senior pitcher Danny Robinson allowed six hits to the K-dogs, but he did not allow them to link up runs. Colfax defense booked three double plays in the first game, and Kettle stranded a total of six runners.

Robinson walked two Kettle batters and struck out nine. Robinson doubled and tripled to lead eight Colfax hits in the game.

Colfax went up against Asotin in the second game after the Panthers dropped Northwest Christian in a 15-8 scramble in the first game. That put the NE's top two finishers from the south side matched up for the top two slots in the league.

Colfax pitcher Parker Huber held the Panthers scoreless through six innings before Asotin broke out for three runs in the seventh inning.

Huber also walked just two batters. He fanned seven Panthers and allowed three hits.

Catcher Cal Gregory had three of the 10 Colfax hits in the second game, and Logan Gingerich and Matt Sharp each had two hits. Nate Akesson and Sharp doubled.

The two wins at Medical Lake advanced the Colfax baseball record to 17-1. That included a sweep of NE foes through the season. The lone Colfax loss was to Colton in the first game of the season at a tournament in Lewiston.