Prep Softball: Road woes for Glacier in Helena
The Daily Inter Lake
HELENA - They're learning.
The Glacier Wolfpack softball team got to deal with a little more adversity than most Saturday - the team bus broke down on the way to Helena.
The breakdown put the Wolfpack into Helena late.
"We just had to get off the bus and play," said Wolfpack head coach Joel Bemis.
Glacier wound up losing to Helena High, 6-1, and Helena Capital, 6-4.
Bemis wasn't making excuses.
"The (Bengals' jumped on us early. But I thought we battled pretty well," he said.
The Wolfpack had five hits against Helena High.
"The second game we picked it up and did a better job," Bemis said.
"We hung right in there. We started hitting the ball better as the game went on and we tried to make a game of it," he said.
Capital led Glacier 6-0 after two innings, but the Wolfpack rallied with three runs in the top of the seventh.
"It was good to see our girls battle. We hung in there. We started hitting the ball better as the game went on and we tried to make a game out of it," the coach said.
Seven Wolfpack batters got hits in the second game. Abby Connolly was 1-for-4 with two RBIs.
Glacier 000 100 0 - 1 5 1
Helena 300 111 x - 6 10 2
Jessie Compton and Brittany Franklin. Carly Grant and Kelsey Chambers. W - Grant. L -Compton (1-3).
Glacier - Brittney Brown 0-4, Lyndsey Hoffenbacker 0-4, Brittany Franklin 1-3, Abby Connolly 1-2, Sabrina Kenfield 1-3, Kendra Bouley 1-2, Kristen Storle 1-3, Megan Connolly 0-3, Jessie Compton 0-2.
RBI - Kenfield.
Helena - Carly Grant 4-4, Jenna Klum 1-4, Sydney Carpenter 1-4, Sarah Jackson 2-4, Kelsey Chambers 0-2, Kathy Pocklington 0-2, Jordan Briski 2-3, Kwyncee Ward 0-3, Caroline Cardenas 0-3.
RBI - Krum, Carpenter, Jackson, Cardenas. HR - Carpenter, Jackson. 2B - C. Grant, Jackson.
Glacier 000 001 3 - 4 7 2
Capital 150 000 x - 6 9 4
Bouley and Franklin. C. Baker Bartsch (7) and K. Heller. WP - Baker. LP - Bouley (1-3).
Glacier - Brown 1-4, Hoffenbacker 1-4, Franklin 1-3, Connolly 1-4, Kenfield 1-1, Compton 1-2, Storle 1-4, Bouley 0-3, M. Connolly 0-2, Micah Hergesheimer 0-3.
RBI - A. Connolly 2.
Capital - K. Heller 2-4,B. McNellis 0-2, Wilson 1-1, Bickke 2-4, J. Vonada 0-3, Mucallhy 0-1, M. Graff 0-3, Bartsh 0-1. L. Baker 1-3, A. Morgan 2-3, C. Baker 1-3, A. Blanton 0-0, Boland 0-1.
RBI - Baker 1; HR - Heller; 3B - Heller; 2B - Morgan 2.
Helena 7, Flathead 2
Capital 13, Flathead 2
HELENA - Flathead was held to six hits and did not score until the top of the seventh inning in dropping a Western AA contest to the Bengals.
Kassi Martin and Kendra Bennett both went 2-for-4 at the plate for Flathead. Bennett doubled twice.
Flathead could muster just two runs and five hits in falling to Capital.
Flathead 000 000 2 - 2 6 NA
Helena 101 401 x - 7 13 NA
Megan Hash and Megan Olsewsk; Jenna Krum and Kelsey Chambers. W - Krum; L - Hash.
Flathead - Kassi Martin 2-4, Megan Hash 0-2, Kendra Bennett 2-4, Alisha Cingle 1-1, Megan Olsewsk 0-3, Casey Roylsh 0-3, Christyn Hamon 1-1, Emily Jones 0-2, Hailley Johnson 0-2, Kylei Mach 0-2, Brenna Palmer 0-1.
Helena - Carley Grant 1-4, Jenna Krum 1-4, Sydney Carpenter 3-4, Sarah Jackson 3-4, Kelsey Chambers 1-4, Jordyn Briski 1-4, Kathy Pocklington 2-4, Kwyncee 0-3, Carolina Cardenas 1-3.
2B - Bennett (2); Jackson, Carpenter, Cardenas; HR - Jackson
Flathead 000 200 0 - 2 5 3
Capital 103 306 X - 13 12 0
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