Area Roundup: Red Devils open baseball season by splitting pair of games
Sunday, March 2, 2008 6:13 AM PST
By The Daily News
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E-mail this articleYAKIMA - Lower Columbia College bounced back after a disheartening loss in its season opener by pounding Yakima Valley 22-2 here Saturday in nonleague baseball action.
The Red Devils (1-1) dropped a 10-9 decision to Everett earlier Saturday. Everett hit a walk-off home run in the bottom of the ninth inning to complete a total collapse by the LCC bullpen.
"I thought our pitching would be much better," said Devils head coach Kelly Smith. "We had some first-game jitters. Our guys were uncharacteristically wild and the strike zone was small."
The Devils scored 13 runs on eight hits in the first inning against Yakima Valley.
Brooks Lindsley had four hits, and Jett Hart and Sean Winston added three apiece in the drubbing. Luke Zirkle added a three-run home run.
Tyler Lichty started for LCC against Everett and pitched 3 2/3 scoreless innings.
"He pitched OK, but he couldn't throw enough strikes and we got into our bullpen early," said Smith.
The Devils 'pen surrendered all 10 Everett runs (six earned).
LCC trailed 4-0 in the sixth inning, but rallied to tie the game on an RBI double from Bas Nooij and a three-run homer by Bo Lybeck. The Devils trailed 6-4 in the seventh when Lindsley stroked a two-run single, and 9-6 in the ninth before Shawn Peterson jacked a three-run homer to tie it again.
LCC plays Yakima Valley twice today, and opens its home schedule next Saturday against Chemeketa.
girls basketball
Lassies fall, take sixth
AUBURN - Kelso finished a long week of playoff basketball like a team at the end of a long week of playoff basketball.
But regardless of the Lassies' 62-55 loss to Auburn on the Trojans' home floor here Saturday in a West Central-Southwest Bi-District seeding game, they are headed to state.
Kelso will learn its first-round opponent for the Class 3A state tournament at 3 p.m. today at WIAA headquarters in Renton.
The Lassies (19-7) open state on Wednesday at the University of Washington's Bank of America Arena as a No. 6 seed.
Had Kelso held on against Auburn on Saturday, it would have been a No. 4 seed.
"The difference in the ballgame was boards," said Lassies coach Lacey DeWeert. "They came out and just whupped us on the boards in the second half. It was an incredibly long week, and we looked tired. That pop or that surge we needed in the second half didn't happen."
Auburn's Nneka Payne led all scorers with 29 points, and the winners outscored Kelso 38-26 after halftime. The Lassies had 22 rebounds and Auburn 14 in the first half, but Auburn grabbed 22 to Kelso's five in the second.
Sophomore post Carly Perkins had 22 points and 13 rebounds for Kelso, which was playing its fourth game in eight days. Senior Sadie Salte added 13 points and six rebounds, sophomore Caitlynn Jackson 10 points and three assists, and Jill Karnofski six rebounds.
Trojans 62, Lassies 55
KELSO (55) -
Danielle Birch 4, Jill Karnofski 4, Caitlynn Jackson 10, Sadie Salte 13, Carly Perkins 22, Jessica Warthen 2
AUBURN (62) -
Payne 29, Young 4, Strickland 12, Chaney 1, Soushek 9, Morgan 2
Kelso 12 17 8 18-55
Auburn 8 16 20 18-62
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