Eureka baseball moves to 5-0

EUREKA — Rowan Burow and Tristan Butts combined on a five-inning shutout in the first game, and the Eureka Lions went on to sweep Bonners Ferry, Idaho in high school baseball Saturday, 10-0 and 11-4.

Burow allowed three hits and one walk in 4 1-3 innings, fanning four, before Butts retired the final two batters in the opener. Eureka (5-0) jumped ahead 5-0 in the first inning and added two runs in the second. When the Lions scored their 10th run in the bottom of the fifth — on AJ Truman’s bases-loaded single — the game ended under the mercy rule.

Butts had two runs batted in and two runs scored for Eureka; Michael VanGilder had two hits and Rogan Lytle had a double among his two hits and scored twice.

In the second game Burow, Butts and Tyce Van Orden all had three hits and Butts drove in three runs. Van Orden’s RBI single in the midst of a 9-run third inning put the Lions up for good, 5-4; Burow had two hits in the inning, and he and Truman drove in two runs each.

Van Orden had the lone extra base hit, a double, and also pitched the seventh inning.

Butts took over for Truman in the fourth and threw three scoreless innings,

Lytle had two hits and scored twice.