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Badger Baseball clinches first place in
Intermountain League with win over Timberlake |
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April 29, 2015 |
The Bonners Ferry Badger baseball team clinched
the Intermountain League Championship on Tuesday
with a 5-1 win over the Timberlake Tigers. This
is the second overall league championship for
the baseball team and first since 2007.
Junior Vince Bennett pitched a complete game
giving up six hits, while striking out three and
walking four batters.
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game was scoreless going into the bottom of the
4th when Steve Anzalone reached base on an
error. After a sacrifice bunt from Caleb
Blackmore, Caleb Gering was hit by a pitch to
advance Anzalone to second.
Shay Garcia then hit a line drive single to
center that got by the center fielder. Both
Anzalone and Gering scored on the play. Garcia
later scored on Vince Bennett’s ground out to
second, putting the Badgers up 3-0.
In the top of the 5th inning, the Tigers
responded with a run when Josh Lampert walked to
start the inning and later scored on a RBI
double from Jerrett Plunkett. The Badgers added
two more runs in their half of the 5th inning
when Jesse Dunham reached base on an error from
the shortstop with two outs. Anzalone then hit a
single up the middle and Dunham scored on a
misplay from the pitcher. Blackmore then walked.
While attempting to pick off Blackmore, the
pitcher threw the ball out of bounds to score
Anzalone making the score 5-1.
The win puts the Badgers overall record at 14-6
and 8-1 in league play. They will finish their
regular season on Thursday, April 30 against the
5A Post Falls varsity.
The District Tournament will be held in Bonners
Ferry May 4 and 5 with the Badgers playing the
#4 seed Monday afternoon at 4p.m. The winner of
the District Tournament advances to the State
Tournament in Ontario, Oregon May 14 – 16. The
runner-up will play in a winner to state game on
May 9th in Grangeville, Idaho.
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