Serving Whitman County since 1877
Serving Whitman County since 1877
Colton falls to Sunnyside Christian in doubleheader
Alex Mortensen pitches in a game against Jenkins (Chewelah) on March 26.
COLFAX - The Bulldogs boys baseball team is off to a ho-hum start, winning one and tying one in the last two weeks.
Playing in a tournament in Orofino, Idaho, the Colfax boys (1-2-1) opened their season Friday, March 18, with an 8-8 tie against Orofino (6-2-1) in the Asotin Panthers baseball tournament.
Both teams put up 2 runs in the first inning and Colfax added another in the 2nd. The score would remain 3-2 until the bottom of the fourth, when the Maniacs put 5 more runs on the board to take a 7-3 lead.
In the top of the 6th and 7th innings, Colfax scored twice each to tie the game at 7 going into the final inning.
Both Colfax and Orofino scored a single run in the final inning; the game ended in an 8-8 tie.
J.D. Peterson, Cody Inderrieden and Mason Gilchrist all had 2 hits for the Bulldogs.
Braden Plummer, Alex Mortensen, J.P. Wigen, Erik Christensen and Ryan Henning each had one.
Orofino had 11 hits and 7 RBIs in the game.
Orofino E. Schneider scored 3 runs to lead the Maniacs, while Silas Naranjo added 2 and Emmett Lilly, Louden Cochran and Steven Bradley all scored once.
In the Bulldogs' second game of the tournament, Colfax took a 6-3 win over North Star, Idaho.
The Huskies jumped out to 3-0 lead in the first inning. But the Colfax bats warmed up in the second for 6 unanswered runs.
The North Star runs were scored by sophomores Evan Mixson and Johnny Szekeres, and junior Noah Green. Freshman Cole Young was credited with an RBI.
The Bulldogs returned to the diamond Saturday, March 26, against NE2B league rival Jenkins (Chewelah) Cougars.
The Cougars (4-0) swept Colfax, winning 5-2 in the first game and 10-6 in the nightcap.
Neither team reported individual stats.
Colton Wildcats
In other baseball action, the Sunnyside Christian Knights swept the Colton Wildcats (3-3) in a doubleheader on Saturday, March 18.
Sunnyside Christian took an early 3-0 lead in the opening game and finished with a 9-1 win. Colton's run came in the 6th inning.
Angus Jordan, Grant Wolf and Colton Pfaff had hits for Colton, and relief pitcher Kaiden Rogerson had three strikeouts.
Sunnyside Christian won the second game of the doubleheader, 9-8.
Colton was led at the plate by eighth-grader Tanner Baerlocher, who had 3 hits in the game. Teammates Grant Wolf, Angus Jordan and Colton Pfaff all added 2. Wyatt Johnson had 1 hit.
The Wildcats retuned to the diamond Saturday, March 26, to face Class 1B league rival the Touchet Indians.
The Wildcats dominated the game, winning 24-6, in 5 innings.
Colton put the game away in the bottom of the 3rd inning when the Wildcats scored 16 runs.
For the season, Jaxson Moore leads Colton with 4 runs.
Raph Arnhold, Dan Bell, Kaiden Rogerson and Wyatt Jordan all have 3 runs.
Angus Jordan, Grant Wolf and Colton Pfaff have all crossed the plate twice and M. Reisenauer and Tanner Baerlocher have scored once each.
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