Lakers offense heats up against Mariners

by The Daily Inter Lake
| May 30, 2011 2:00 AM

POLSON - Joe Pistorese was 5-for-6 on the day with five doubles and four RBI as the Kalispell Lakers defeated host Mission Valley in a doubleheader on Sunday.

Scores were 17-7 and 8-5.

All the Lakers got in on the offensive action as Kalispell had 13 hits in the first game and eight in the second.

Cody Dopps was 3-for-7 with two home runs and five RBI and Michael O'Connell was 4-for-7 with a home run, a double and five RBI.

The Lakers got down

"We hit the ball very well," said Lakers coach Ryan Malmin.

"We still need to eliminate the free passes. We had 13 today," he said of Kalispell's pitching.

"And we need to clean things up defensively."

The Lakers (15-4) play host at 6 p.m. Thursday to the Glacier Twins.

Game 1

Lakers 17, Mission 7

Lakers 262 52 - 17133

Mission Valley 400 03 - 7 60

Matt McLean, Louis Freudenburg (5) and Kendrick Lee. Dalton Molzhon, Bradley Pichler (3) and Jack Humphreys. W - McLean. L - Molzhon.

Lakers - Dillon Matteson 2-2, Kendrick Lee 1-3, Michael O'Connell 3-3, Joe Pistorese 2-2, Sid Schenk 1-4, Cody Dopps 1-3, Sean O'Connell 2-4, Dominick Eickert 0-2, Nate Bengston 1-2.

2B - Pistorese 2, M. O'Connell 2, Schenk 1, S. O'Connell 1. HR - Matteson. RBI - Matteson 4, M. O'Connell 4, Pistorese 3, Schenk 1 Dopps 2, S. O'Connell 2, Bengston 1.

Mission Valley - Jack Humphreys 0-2, Josh Rustad 0-2, Justin Evertz 1-2, Chris Clary 0-2, Robby Gauthier 1-3, Jacob Young 1-3, Bradley Pichler 2-2, Kevin Hagadorn 0-3, Dalton Molzhon 1-2.

2B - Evertz, Gauthier, Young. RBI - Clary 1, Gauthier 1, Pichler 2, Molzhon 1.

Game 2

Lakers 8, Mariners 5

Lakers 104 111 0 - 8 82

Mariners 101 000 3 - 5102

Sid Schenk, Alex Stanley (5), Michael O'Connell (7) and Dopps. Robby Gauthier, Chris Clary (4) and Davin Sorrell. W - Schenck. L - Gauthier

Lakers - Matteson 1-3, Eickert 0-1, S. O'Connell 1-2, M. O'Connell 1-4, Pistorese 3-4, Stanley 0-1, Dopps 2-4, Freudenburg 0-2, McLean 0-3, Scoob Decker 0-1.

2B - Pistorese 3, Matteson 1, HR - Dopps 2, M. O'Connell 1. RBI - Matteson 1, M. O'Connell 1, Pistorese 1, Dopps 3, McLean 1.

Mission Valley - Evertz 2-3, Rustad 1-5, Young 0-3, Clary 2-3, Gauthier 1-4, Pichler 2-3, Sorrell 0-3, Hagadorn 2-4, Molzhon 0-3.

2B - Clary, Evertz. HR - Evertz, Rustad. RBI - Evertz 3, Rustad 1, Pichler 1.

Missoula 11, Glacier 1

MISSOULA - Carl Talsma was 2-for-2 with a triple, Jim Jumper added a triple and Kyler Blades a double, but it wasn't enough on Sunday for the Glacier Twins AA as they fell 11-1 to the Missoula Mavs at the Memorial Day Tournament in Missoula.

Missoula scored five runs in the second and third innings.

Glacier's run came in the third.

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Missoula 055 1x - 11 8 0

Connor Donahue, Zach Maassen (4) and Jim Jumper. Michael Melugin and Luke Bewley. W - Melugin. L - Donahue.

GLACIER - Jeremy Nielson 1-3, Jack Cronin 0-2, Kyler Blades 1-2, Geoff Streeter 0-2, Cody Hill 1-2, Carl Talsma 2-2, Maassen 0-2, Donahue 0-2, Jumper 1-2.

MISSOULA - Tanner Rheinschmidt 2-4, Brody Miller 0-1, Riley King 1-2, Nathan Jewett 0-2, Andrew Sopko 1-1, Bewley 1-3, David Resner 0-2, Alec Bouchee 1-2, Tres Cunningham 2-2.

2B - Blades, Nielson, Cunningham. 3B - Jumper, Talsma. RBIs - Nielson, Rheinschmidt 4, Miller, King, Cunningham.