Lakers AA take two from Twins
<p>Patrick Cote/Daily Inter Lake Kalispell Lakers' Dillon Matteson slides safely into home plate to put the Lakers up by three in the first inning Wednesday evening during the first game of a Lakers Twins doubleheader at Griffin Field. Wednesday, July 25, 2012 in Kalispell, Montana.</p>
<p>Patrick Cote/Daily Inter Lake Glacier Twins' Bryce Wehrli (10) slides under the tag of Kalispell Lakers second baseman Charlie Obermiller (4) on a stolen base Wednesday evening during the first game of a Lakers Twins doubleheader at Griffin Field. Wednesday, July 25, 2012 in Kalispell, Montana.</p>
The Kalispell Lakers AA swept the Glacier Twins AA in the final two games of their regular season, taking both ends of a doubleheader at Griffin Field on Wednesday. The Lakers got on the board early in both games, scoring big in the early innings.
Kalispell scored three runs in the first inning of the opener, then scored twice more in the fourth inning to win the game 5-2. Nate Bengston went 2 for 2 and the Lakers got RBIs from Kendrick Lee, Dillon Matteson and Sean O’Connell.
O’Connell went 2 for 3 with a single and a triple in the nightcap, knocking in two runs in a 10-6 blowout win for the Lakers.
Kalispell scored all 10 runs in the first four innings, including five in the fourth inning alone. Dillon Eaves allowed just one earned run on two hits in the first six innings before the Twins were able to mount a late rally.
Glacier scored four runs in the seventh inning, but fell too far behind early in the game to catch up. Peter Seymour, who also knocked in a run in the opener, hit three RBIs in the nightcap, going 1 for 4 from the plate. Cory Davis had two RBIs in the second game.
The doubleheader marked the end of the regular season for the Lakers. Glacier heads to Medicine Hat this weekend for a three-game set to close its regular season.
Lakers 5, Twins 2
Glacier 010 010 0 — 2 5 2
Kalispell 300 200 x — 5 5 2
Conner Donahue and Garrett Houston. Matt McLean and Kendrick Lee.
GLACIER — Jeremy Nielsen 1-2, Carl Talsma 0-3, Cory Davis 1-4, Peter Seymour 1-2, Houston 0-3, Bryce Wehrli 2-3, Nathan Carr 0-3, Isaac Venezio 0-3, Jake Slaybaugh 0-2, Nick LaGrandeur 0-1.
RBI — Seymour.
KALISPELL — Lee 1-4, Charlie Obermiller 0-3, Sean O’Connell 1-3, Dillon Eaves 1-3, Dillon Matteson 0-3, Cody Dopps 0-2, Nate Bengston 2-2, Hank McLeod 0-2, Jake Johnson 0-3.
RBI — Lee, O’Connell, Matteson.
Lakers 10, Twins 6
Glacier 002 000 4 — 6 5 0
Kalispell 131 500 x — 10 8 2
Houston, Venezio (3) and Nielsen. Eaves, Dopps (7), McLeod (7) and Lee.
GLACIER — Nielsen 0-2, Talsma 0-2, Davis 2-4, Seymour 1-4, LaGrandeur 0-4, Venezio 1-2, Carr 0-2, Shane Marcial 0-3, Wehrli 0-2, Slaybaugh 0-1, Houston 1-1.
RBI — Seymour (3), Davis (2), Talsma.
KALISPELL — Lee 0-3, Obermiller 1-2, Zach Personett 0-1, O’Connell 2-3, Adam Frandsen 2-4, Matteson 0-2, Dopps 0-1, Bengston 1-2, McLean 1-2, Johnson 1-4.
2B — Johnson, Obermiller, McLean; 3B — O’Connell; RBI — O’Connell (2), Johnson (2), Obermiller, Frandsen, Bengston, McLean.