MOSCOW - With the game on the line, Griffin Rod's instructions to Theo Howard were simple: Keep calm, get out of the inning and don't throw the ball in the dirt.
Two out of three was enough to get it done.
Howard's very next pitch to Lewiston's Hayden Woods went into the ground, but the following throw made contact with Woods' bat, hung in the air, then landed in the glove of centerfielder Duke Richardson to seal the Moscow Blue Devils' 5-4 win and a doubleheader sweep of their legion foe.
Howard's complete game was the perfect encore to the one Devin Carscallen threw in their first victory, a mercy-rule shortened 11-1 blowout Wednesday evening at the Moscow School District Community Playfields.
"We got a tough run in front of us, so the fact that those guys came out and threw respective complete games was awesome heading into tomorrow's tough games against Orofino," Rod said, looking ahead to today's 5 p.m. doubleheader at Bear Field.
FIRST GAME
Lewiston 000 01-1 2 4
Moscow 020 63-11 10 1
Carscallen and Knott. Alspach and Savolainen.
Moscow hits - Charlie Lidean 3, Theo Howard 2, Duke Richardson 2, Mat Shears, Redinger, Knott
L-C hits - Jonah Carpenter, Kyle Van Boeyen
SECOND GAME
Lewiston 002 000 2-4 9 2
Moscow 022 010 x-5 4 1
Howard and Gottschalk. Lund and Savolainen.
Moscow hits - Duke Richardson 2, Chad Robertson (2B), Brock Garrity
L-C hits - Garrett Beckman 2, Kyle Van Boeyen, Jonah Carpenter 2 (2B), Wyatt Baldwin, Trey Charlo, Nate Savolainen, Keegen Tanata
L-C Twins 9, Yakima Hawks 5
Pitcher Julian Washburn held the Yakima Hawks hitless through six innings and the Lewis-Clark Twins beat their visitors at Harris Field.
That improved the Twins to 7-1.
Yakima 000 010 4-5 5 0
Twins 030 411 x-9 12 4
Meador, Bivins (3) and White. Washburn, Powell (7) and Grijalva.
Yakima hits - White, Haas 2, Whitman, Meador (2B)
L-C hits - Light, Phillips 2 (2B), Munoz 2 (2B), White 2, Moore 3 (2B), Tibbits 2
Orofino Merchants 13-10, Asotin County Blues 6-7
OROFINO - In a late reported pair of games from Tuesday, the Orofino Merchants swept the Asotin Count Blues during an American Legion twinbill. The Merchants won 13-6 and then 10-7.
In both games it was because of a big third inning that the Merchants won. In the first game, the Merchants put up eight runs in the third inning and in the second contest, Orofino put up nine runs in the third to gain control.
First Game
Asotin 200 022 0-6 5 2
Orofino 138 001 x-13 11 4
Bonin, Lejameyer (3) and Wilkinson. Dunaway and Adkison.
Asotin hits - Bean, Chadwick, Miller, Kinzer (HR), Fry.
Orofino hits - Burke 2 (2B), Adkison 3 (3B), Wilson 3 (2B), Bolling, Dunaway, Coomer.
SECOND GAME
Asotin 010 240 0-7 9 2
Orofino 109 000 x-10 11 2
Mullikin, Bean (3), Fry (6) and Marks. Isbelle, Wilson (5) and Adkison.
Asotin hits - Bean 2, Beizett, Miller, Kinzer, Marks (HR), James (2B), Fansbeck
Orofino hits - Burke (2B), Adkison, Wilson 2, Brink 3, Bolling (2B), Coomer (2B), Dunaway (2B)
