Black Sox, Giants start off 2-0 at John R. Harp Tournament

The Daily Inter Lake

Day 1 is in the books at Kalispell's Class A John R. Harp American Legion baseball tournament.

The eight-team tourney runs through Sunday with equal seeds from two pools playing each other.

The Great Falls Senior Babe Ruth Black Sox and Southern Alberta Giants were the only teams Friday to win two games in the round-robin format, which finishes today.

Pool 1 has Southern Alberta at 2-0; Kalispell Class A at 1-0; Everett, Wash., at 0-1; and Anaconda at 0-2.

Pool 2 has Great Falls at 2-0; Mission Valley is 1-0; Glasgow at 0-1; and Kootenai Valley at 0-2.

Only reports for two games were called into the Daily Inter Lake.

Mission Valley 10, Kootenai Valley 6

Fourteen-year-old Tim Rausch struck out nine in a compete-game victory for the Mariners to improve to 6-1 on the season.

Jake Bosley went 4-for-5 with three RBIs and Tyler Trudeau went 3-for-5 with an RBI to help lead the Mariners in wrapping out 17 hits.

Tied 5-5 going into the sixth inning, the Mariners scored three runs on back-to-back-to-back RBI hits from Bosley, Brandon Thompson and Trudeau.

Kris Chupp and Zach Neiwsma each had two hits for Kootenai Valley, which scored six unearned runs because the Mariners committed six errors.

Mission played only the one game Friday at the John R. Harp tourney. It plays two games today: Great Falls at 10 a.m. and Glasgow at 5:30 p.m.

Kootenai played Great Falls Thursday morning but did not report results. It plays Glasgow today at 12:30 p.m.

Mission 111 113 2 - 10 17 6

Kootenai 002 121 0 - 6 8 3

Tim Rausch and Jake Whetzel. Gram Cook, Josh Soderling (6) and Kris Chupp. W - Rausch (6-1). L - Cook.

MISSION VALLEY (35-12) -Chris Brown 2-3, Eric Locke 1-4, Jake Bosley 4-5, Brandon Thompson 2-5, Tyler Trudeau 3-5, Will Gordon 0-4, Nick Fell 1-4, Robert Wallace 1-4, Whetzel 2-3.

KOOTENAI VALLEY (n/a) - JD Belstad 0-4, Chupp 2-4, Zach Neiwsma 2-3, Jordan Lundberg 1-3, Kraig Chupp 1-3, Clete DeShazer 1-4, Pat Broom 0-3, Jeremy Person 1-4, Ryan Jurjans 0-3.

RBIs - MV 8 (Brown 2, Locke, Bosley 3, Thompson, Fell), KV 0. 2B - MV 2 (Thompson, Trudeau), KV 1 (Lundberg).

Kalispell 4, Anaconda 0

Sixteen-year-old Greg Neils struck out 13 in earning the complete-game shutout for Kalispell.

Neils used a hard fastball and tough changeup in limiting the A's to just three hits and a walk.

Ahead just 1-0 going into the bottom of the fifth inning, the Lakers led off with back-to-back singles before Anaconda committed a two-run error. Kalispell scored its final run in the inning on a groundout.

Anaconda pitcher Jake Lidele held the Lakers to just four hits and no earned runs.

Pat Hergesheimer went 2-for-3 to pace the Lakers on offense.

Jeurgon Colbert went 2-for-3 to lead Anaconda.

Anaconda 000 000 0 - 0 3 4

Kalispell 100 030 x - 4 4 1

Jake Lidele and Anthony Marrujo. Greg Neils and Tony Lawrence. W - Neils. L - Lidele.

ANACONDA (n/a) - Cormac Morre 0-3, Triston Spehar 0-3, Jeurgon Colbert 2-3, Cory Orrino 1-3, Casey Dee 0-3, Marrujo 0-3, Miguel Rice 0-2, Tommy Lovell 0-2, Robbie Newquist 0-2.

KALISPELL (28-9) - Jacob Scott 1-4, Will Briles 0-3, Pat Hergesheimer 2-3, Derek Keller 0-3, Dusty Hoffenbacker 0-3, Tony Lawrence 0-2, Toby Liechti 1-3, Neils 0-3, Beau Albright 0-1.

RBIs - Ana. 0, Kal. 0. Extra-base hits - none.