NORTH BEND — Glide and North Bend both just completed perfect baseball seasons in their respective leagues and now have a week before they open the state playoffs.

To stay sharp for the postseason, the two teams played each other Tuesday at Clyde Allen Field.

North Bend won the game 5-0, but both teams gained from the experience.

And both will be in action again today, when North Bend visits Junction City and Glide plays Umpqua Valley Christian.

“It’s nice that we get to play two games in a row,” said North Bend coach Brad Horning. “It’s not raining and it’s not cold.”

And the baseball is pretty good.

North Bend entered Tuesday’s game ranked No. 1 in the Class 4A coaches poll. Glide was ranked No. 2 in the Class 3A poll.

Aside from one big defensive mistake, the teams played fairly even.

“I think the game’s a lot closer than the score,” Horning said.

After Brock Halter opened the game with a double, Glide never got much of anything going against North Bend starter Kale Forrester. The senior struck out 10 hitters in just over six innings of work and gave up only one more hit, a double by Halter in the third inning.

“I had some control problems with my fastball,” Forrester said. “I felt my curveball was good.”

“Kale pitched very well,” Horning said.

Unfortunately, his outing was cut short by a fluke injury on a play the Bulldogs don’t get to run very often.

Forrester walked Halter to lead off the sixth inning, and then Brandon Belloir hit into a fielder’s choice, with Halter out at second.

After Belloir stole second base, Kyle fields hit into another fielder’s choice, and Belloir was caught in a rundown between second and third.

The Bulldogs executed the play perfectly, but Forrester, the third North Bend player with the ball during the rundown, twisted his ankle as he tagged Belloir out.

Forrester predicted he’d be fine by the time the Bulldogs host either Tillamook or Henley in the second round of the playoffs next Tuesday.

“I’ll be good to go no matter what,” Forrester said.

The Bulldogs didn’t lose a beat when Forrester came out of the game. Bruce Ohlrich came in and quickly got Jeff Jackson to fly out to left. Ohlrich then overcame two errors in the seventh inning by striking out Will Hissung and Shaun Enserink to end the game.

Ohlrich also had the biggest offensive moment of the game.

North Bend manufactured a run in the third inning, when Dalton Iveans led off with a double to the wall in left, advanced to third on a grounder to second base by Alex Clark, and scored on a sacrifice fly by Andrew Slack.

The following inning Skyler Walton and Forrester hit back-to-back pop-ups that fell just between oncoming infielders and outfielders for bloop singles. Bryce Weidman then put down a bunt, which Glide’s Jackson fielded quickly. Jackson tried to get Walton out at third base, but the throw was off line, allowing Walton to score. Ohlrich followed with a three-run blast over the left-field fence.

“(The pitch) was just right down the middle,” Ohlrich said. “I barely hit it.”

The home run continued a recent hot stretch for Ohlrich, who had six hits in a doubleheader sweep of Siuslaw on Friday.

“I was in a slump at the start of the season,” he said. “The last three weeks, I’ve been hitting good.”

The home run pitch was one of just a few mistakes by Fields, who nearly matched Forrester in effectiveness during the game.

Glide coach Al Skinner had no complaints about how Fields pitched or how his team played. The error on Jackson was a rare mistake by a standout fielder who later made a sliding grab on a foul ball in the sixth inning.

The biggest thing, Skinner said, was that Glide got some solid competition after running the tables in the Sunset Conference.

“We needed to play with some pressure,” he said. “To do well in the playoffs, we need to handle pressure.”

He came away impressed with Forrester.

“We wouldn’t see anything like that in our league,” Skinner said.

The Bulldogs, in turn, had praise for the Wildcats.

“Glide is a good team,” Ohlrich said. “It was a good game to play.”