MOSCOW - Julian Washburn fired a one-hitter to keep the Lewis-Clark Cubs alive, and the valley team then erupted for a convincing win over the same Moscow Blue Devils club for the championship of a district Class A Legion baseball tournament Sunday.
The scores were 1-0 and 18-2, the second game settled in five innings, as Lewis-Clark completed a five-game journey through the losers' bracket.
The title puts the Cubs into the state A tournament at Orofino, where they open at 10 a.m. Thursday against Owyhee. The Blue Devils, who had entered the day needing only one win for title, are now done for the season at 26-11.
"We'd been really solid all year long," Cubs coach Cody Weiss said, "and we did exactly what we've been doing all year long. Being aggressive and making things happen."
Washburn struck out five in the opener and won a pitchers' duel with Devin Carscallen as the Cubs forced a second title contest. Duke Richardson singled in the third for Moscow's only hit, and Carscallen allowed only two singles.
"We took a gamble saving him till the last day, but it ended up working out for us," Weiss said of Washburn.
In the second game, Cooper Lund pitched a four-hitter and Riley Ray doubled twice and singled. Washburn and Alex Light added three hits apiece.
FIRST GAME
Moscow 000 000 0-0 1 1
Lewis-Clark 100 000 x-1 2 0
Carscallen and Knott. Washburn and Fuller.
Moscow hits - Richardson
Lewis-Clark hits - Washburn, Baldwin.
SECOND GAME
Lewis-Clark 060 84-18 19 1
Moscow 000 20- 2 4 1
Lund and Fuller. Carscallen, Lidean (3), Grady (4), Broeneke (5) and Knott.
Lewis-Clark hits - Ray 3 (2-2B), Washburn 3 (2B), Baldwin 2, Fuller 2, Shoults 2, Wallace 2, Carpenter 2, Light 3 (2B).
Moscow hits - Richardson, Carscallen, Redinger, Lidean.
LC Black 10, Blues 7
OLYMPIA, Wash. - One catastrophic inning doomed the Asotin County Blues as they watched their season end with a loss to LC Black in the Washington state AA Legion tournament.
The Blues committed all three of their errors in a third inning that also included two LC Black hits, two plunked batters, two bases on balls and nine runners for the Redmond club.
"One bad inning - other than that, we played a very solid game," Blues assistant coach Perry Black said.
Taran Smith tallied three hits and two RBI for Asotin County, while Josh Lane and Devon Barton reached base three times apiece.
The Blues went 0-2 in the tournament but otherwise "finished the season really strong," Black said. "One of the last 16 teams in the state."
Asotin County 000 205 0- 7 13 3
LC Black 109 000 x-10 9 3
Sakti Woodbury, Blake Rimmelspacher (3), Josh Lane (5) and Elliott Marks. LC Black battery NA.
Asotin County hits - Havin Heytvelt, Lane 2, Rimmelspacher 2, Dylan Beeler, Dalton James (2B), Devon Barton 2 (2B), Taran Smith 3, Woodbury.
LC Black hits - unavailable
BABE RUTH 14
L-C 8, West Linn 3
Kyle Van Boeyen pitched a complete game, allowing no earned runs, as Lewis-Clark defeated West Linn, Ore., in a pool-play game at Harris Field in the Pacific Northwest Regional Babe Ruth tournament for 14-year-olds.
Donovan Santana and Kieran Garcia collected two singles and a double each for Lewis-Clark, while Keegen Tanata laced two doubles and drove in three runs.
The other Idaho entry, Central Idaho of Orofino, lost 13-3 in six innings to Klamath Falls, Ore. Brandon Barton had two hits for Central Idaho.
In other games, Twin Cities of the Centralia, Wash., area defeated Kelso, Wash., 8-5; and Hazel Dell Metro of southwestern Washington downed Calgary, Alberta, 14-3.
In today's games, it's Mt. Vernon, Wash., vs. Calgary at 9 a.m., Glacier, Mont., vs. Twin Cities at noon, Hazel Dell Metro vs. Central Idaho at 3 p.m. and Lewis-Clark vs. Kelso at 6 p.m.
West Linn 000 012 0-3 4 2
Lewiston 100 601 x-8 12 3
