C-Falls blanks Whitefish

| May 15, 2007 1:00 AM

The Daily Inter Lake

COLUMBIA FALLS - Amber James homered in the fifth inning with one runner on and finished the day going 2-for-3 with two RBIs as Columbia Falls blanked Whitefish 7-0 on Monday in Class A softball action.

Columbia Falls outhit Whitefish 10-3. Amanda Richards led the Wildkats with three hits in four plate appearances.

Amanda Millard also went 2-for-4 for the hosts.

Whitefish, 4-6 in league and 4-16 overall, stranded 10 runners in the game. The Bulldogs left the bases loaded in the third inning and left two on in the fourth, fifth and sixth innings.

"We left too many people on base," said Whitefish coach David Dachs.

"We couldn't get them all the way around."

Whitefish had three key errors in the contest.

Whitefish 000 000 0 - 0 3 3

Columbia Falls 130 021 x - 7 10 2

Torey Ost, Kilani Morris (6) and Desiree Clarke; Jennie Johnson and Amber James. W - Johnson. L - Ost.

Whitefish - Maude Gwiazdon 1-4, Morris 1-3, Shaundra Savage 0-2, Clarke 0-3, Robin Cross 0-3, T. Ost 0-3, Alexi Day 0-2, Shannon Holmes 1-3, Devyn Ost 0-2.

Columbia Falls - Amanda Milliard 2-4, Amanda Richards 3-4, Vanesha Riley 1-4, James 2-3, Drew Walter 0-3, Kayla Stinger 0-3, Lindsay Nelson 0-2, Britney White 1-3, Cedar Smith 1-2.

HR-James; RBIs-Richards (2), Riley, James (2), Smith (2). Joel Nicholas Atkinson, 25