Streaking Lakers sweep

by The Daily Inter Lake
| May 16, 2011 2:00 AM

With four wins in two days, the Kalispell Lakers can say they had a nice weekend.

Matt McLean had eight strikeouts, Joe Pistorese knocked a 2-run home run and the Lakers battered Belgrade in two legion baseball games at Griffin Field on Sunday.

McLean mastered the Bandits in the second game of a doubleheader and Pistorese had his third homer of the season for Kalispell (8-3), which has won five straight.

The Lakers won the opener 11-4 thanks to big games from Nate Bengston, who had three RBI, and Louis Freudenburg and Kendrick Lee, who had two RBI each.

Lee had three hits in the opener, Sean O'Connell had two hits and Pistorese had a triple. Freudenburg had two hits.

The defense had another impressive outing, committing only three errors on the day.

In the nightcap, Dillon Matteson and Pistorese each went 2-for-3.

The Lakers head to Libby on Wednesday before hosting the annual Canadian Days Tournament starting on Friday at Griffin Field.

Belgrade 000 120 1 - 4 9 2

Kalispell 323 300 x - 11 14 0

LD Severson and Brett Franklin. Sid Schenk, Louis Freudenburg (7) and Kendrick Lee. W - Schenk. L - Severson.

BELGRADE - Chris Mitchell 1-3, Chris Gilbraith 0-2, Connor Switzer 3-4, Franklin 1-3, Severson 2-3, David Gaetona 0-1, Fernando Castenada 1-3, Brayden Harris 0-2, Chris Stump 0-1, Christian Vosler 0-3, J. Gier 1-2.

KALISPELL - Dillon Matteson 1-5, Lee 3-4, Michael O'Connell 0-4, Joe Pistorese 2-3, Scoob Decker 0-1, Cody Dopps 1-3, Sean O'Connell 2-4, Freudenburg 2-3, Michael Bare 0-3, Nate Bengston 3-3.

2B - Switzer, Franklin, MItchell, Castenada, Lee, Bengston. 3B - Pistorese. RBIs - Switzer 2, Franklin, Castenada, Lee 2, M. O'Connell, Pistorese, S. O'Connell, Freudenburg 2, Bengston 3.

Belgrade 100 101 2 - 5 5 3

Kalispell 210 031 x - 7 5 3

Trevor Mahn and Switzer. Matt McLean, Freudenburg (7) and Lee, Dopps (4). W - McLean (2-0). L - Mahn; S - Freudenburg (1).

BELGRADE - Mitchell 2-4, Gilbraith 0-4, Franklin 1-3, Severson 1-3, Switzer 1-3, Jose Eduave 0-3, Jay Vosler 0-3, Gier 0-1, Stump 0-3.

KALISPELL - Matteson 2-3, Lee 0-1, Dopps 0-2, Schenk 1-2, Freudenburg 0-0, Pistorese 2-3, S. O'Connell 0-2, M. O'Connell 0-1, Alex Stanley 0-3, Dominic Eickert 0-2, Mike Bare 0-1, Scoob Decker 0-3, Bengston 0-1.

2B - Schenk. HR - Pistorese. RBIs - Severson, Eduave.