Bulldogs win Cascade Cup with two wins at Kittitas

Colfax baseball team booked two wins Saturday to bring home the Cascade Cup from the four-team invitational at Kittitas. Colfax blanked Toledo 10-0 in the first game and then stopped Kittitas 16-5 in the second game. Both of the games ended under the 10-run rule after five innings.

In fact, all four games at Kittitas ended in the 10 run rule.

Sophomore pitcher Layne Gingerich held Toledo to just three hits in the first-round shutout. Colfax rapped seven hits off three Toledo pitchers.

Gingerich struck out eight, and walked zero in taking the win.

Eric Akesson, Nate Akesson and Kelan Becker each had two hits, and Evan Henning had one hit in the first game.

Becker pitched the second game and held Kittitas to six hits. The Bulldogs pounded 15 hits against the hosts and had an 8-0 lead after two innings. The Coyotes scored four runs to trail 4-8 after three innings, but the Bulldogs went over the top with a six-run explosion in the top of the fifth inning.

Blake Bodey, Evan Henning and Gingerich doubled and Eric Akesson singled as the Bulldogs went through the batting order in the top of the fifth.

The Coyotes answered with one run in the bottom of the inning, not enough to erase the 10-run gap to keep the game going.

Becker struck out six and walked four.

Gingerich and Mason Miller each had three hits for the Bulldogs against the K club. Gingerich tripled and doubled. Blake Bodey had two doubles and Evan Henning had a double.

Kittitas faced Colfax in the title game after blanking Morton-White Pass 10-0 in the first round.

Now 8-2 on the season, Colfax had been booked to play Freeman at Spokane's Avista field on Wednesday, but the downpour stopped the plan. Coach Scott Parrish worked with Freeman to arrange the special date where both coaches planned to play down the bench to give everybody some experience in the pro turf.

Parrish noted all teams in the area are encountering weather woes, and the Bulldogs have managed to get in 10 games so far on the season.

Colfax has two league games booked at McDonald Park Friday against Liberty, but that looked like a maybe as of Tuesday night.

The Bulldogs have a league double booked at Asotin a week from Saturday to finish out the south side league run.