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Badger Boys win District Tournament, advance to
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Badger Girls lose one-run heartbreaker |
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May 11, 2016 |
In exciting baseball and softball action
yesterday, the Bonners Ferry Badgers Baseball
team walked through the District
Tournament undefeated, winning the Championship
game defeating Timberlake 9-2. The Badgers
now move on to the Idaho State Tournament.
Badger
pitcher Vince Bennett was named the
Intermountain League's MVP for the baseball
season. Named to the All-Intermountain
League team were Caleb Gering, Jesse Dunham, and
Caleb Blackmore.
On the Softball side, the BFHS Girls lost their
first game against a league opponent yesterday.
The Badger Girls had defeated Kellogg 15-0 to
take the first District game, then lost a
heartbreaker to Timberlake on a controversial
umpire call to end the game in extra innings in
the District Championship game against
Timberlake.
Entering the bottom of the extra-innings ninth,
with Timberlake leading by two runs, the Badger
girls put a run across the plate to pull within
one. They advanced a runner to second
base. A Badger batter then hit a sharp
grounder to the shortstop, who bobbled the ball
as the Badger runner from secon base advanced to
third base, then on to home. The run went
up on the scoreboard, tying the game at five,
with the Badgers still up to bat in the bottom
of the ninth inning. At that point, the
home plate umpire stopped the game, and stated
that the Badger baserunner had interfered with
the Timberlake shortstop fielding the ball in
the run from second to third, called that
baserunner out, and took the run off the
scoreboard, making the score 5-4 in favor of
Timberlake. The field umpire, who was a
mere few feet away from the play and was right
on top of the play, had made no indication that
there was interference.
The 5-4 score held up for Timberlake as the game
ended in the ninth inning.
Badger pitcher Kadi Bateman was awarded
Intermountain League MVP honors for the year.
Named to the all Intermountain League team were
Trinity Golder, Kassy Skeen, and Jorryn Bennett.
The Badger Girls will next play for second place
at Districts on Thursday. The winner of
that game travels to a play-in game in Orofino,
with the winner of that game advancing to the
State Tournament.
Full stories of the Boys' Baseball Tournament
games are located in the Sports section of
NewsBF. |
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