BRIEFLY

CUSICK — The Cusick Panthers baseball team won a doubleheader Curlew (8-4, 8-1) at home Saturday, taking the first game 19-14 and the second 17-13.

The Panthers were at home against Selkirk Tuesday, April 28 for a doubleheader, then off until the Northeast 1B tournament starts May 5.

Cusick sits atop the North conference of the league with an 8-5, 8-2 record. Selkirk is second with an 8-7, 6-3 record, followed by Curlew (4-9, 4-6) and Republic (2-12, 1-6).

In the South conference of the league Almira/Coulee- Hartline leads with a 7-4, 4-0 record, followed by Wilbur-Keller-Creston (6-4, 4-4), Springdale (38, 3-3) and Odessa (2-13, 1-7).

Cusick played Odessa last May, coming away with an 14-8 win.

Rangers struggle

IONE — The Selkirk Rangers lost both games of their nonleague doubleheader with Oroville at home Saturday, April 25. Okanogan won the first game 12-2 and the second 16-5.

Selkirk went to Cusick for a doubleheader Tuesday, April 28. The Rangers host Springdale’s Mary Walker Saturday at noon. Tuesday, May 5 the league playoffs start at Chewelah. The Rangers (8-7, 6-3) is second in the Northeast 1B North conference behind Cusick (8-5, 8-2).

Wildcats eat Spartans

PRIEST RIVER — The Priest River Lamanna High School softball team lost another game against Kellogg last week.

Priest River (3-14, 0-9) hosted Kellogg (12-4, 9-3) Tuesday, April 21, losing 14-2.

Kellogg took an early 4-run lead in the first inning, where Priest River only scored 1 run. The Spartans fell further behind in the second and third innings, when Kellogg scored another 7 runs in total. Though Priest River managed to score another run in the fifth inning, it was not enough to catch up to Kellogg, who scored 3 runs.

McKinley Burgess- Duquette and Eila Smith led Priest River, with 1 run and one hit each. Heather Stumm added another hit.

Priest River next visited St. Maries for a doubleheader Tuesday, April 28 after The Miner’s weekly deadline.

Spartans win golf invite

RATHDRUM — The Priest River golf team won the Timberlake Invitational Thursday, April 16 by 18 strokes, behind four sub-90 Spartan scorers.

Nate Fegert scored a 13-over-par 85 to place third out of 55 golfers at the invite, according to the Bonner County Daily Bee. Dawson Strange scored 87 and placed fifth. Parker Bradbury and Mason Crump both scored 88. Madden Redinger added 98 strokes.

The team scored a total of 348 strokes.

Priest River next plays in an open at StoneRidge Golf and Recreational Community in Blanchard, starting at 10 a.m.

Thursday, April 30. Next week is districts, with play starting at 9 a.m. Monday, May 4.

Further information was not available by The Miner’s weekly Thursday deadline.

Grizzly soccer Thursday

NEWPORT — The Newport High School soccer team (1-12-0, 0-1) fought a losing battle, 8-1, to Northwest Christian (7-30, 1-0) in an away game Thursday, April 23.

“NWC did what they do,” coach Nick Tucker said. “They are a very talented and fast team, especially at the wings.

Their speed wore us down throughout the game.”

Earlier last week the visiting Medical Lake Cardinals defeated the Grizzlies 2-0 in a nonleague match on Tuesday, April 21.

“Medical Lake was a hard-fought game,” Tucker said. “We were missing two senior starters, one of whom is a captain, but still managed to keep it competitive, losing 2-0.

Missing those key players gave young players, like Zac Brandtner, Kyler Wright, Trenden Ellison, and Noah Crabtree a chance to really shine.”

Newport hosted Riverside Tuesday, April 28 after the Miner deadline.

Coming up, the Grizzlies are scheduled for a game at Colville Thursday, April 30 at 4 p.m.