Rough tourney day for Lakers, Twins

WHITEFISH — The Kalispell Lakers AA held tough in their second game of the day at the Sapa-Johnsrud Memorial Tournament on Friday, playing neck and neck with the Club Spokane Dodgers before falling apart late in a 12-4 loss.

The game didn’t start well for Kalispell.

The Lakers allowed the first three batters of the game to score runs, giving up a triple and a double after a leadoff walk.

After calming down the next inning, the Lakers fought back in the third with four runs of their own. Sean O’Connell, Dillon Eaves and Adam Frandsen each batted in runs after the Club Spokane pitcher plunked the first two batters of the inning. Charlie Obermiller scored Eaves two batters later to give the Lakers a 4-3 lead.

Kalispell stayed in control of the game, even after the Dodgers tied it up in the bottom of the third, until Club Spokane started to heat up its bats in the fifth inning.

Eight of the Dodgers’ first nine batters reached safely in the inning, leading to four runs and a 8-4 lead. In the sixth, Club Spokane reached its first two batters on throwing errors and got hits in the next three at-bats to score four more times and envoke the tournament’s eight-run rule, ending the game early.

The Lakers are now 1-2 at the tournament, sitting in the No. 4 spot with just one game today. Kalispell will play the Glacier Twins AA in the nightcap at 7:30.

The top two teams play each other in a championship Sunday afternoon, with the No. 3 and 4 teams playing in a consolation game Sunday morning.

Kalispell 004 000 — 4 6 3

Club Spokane 301 044 — 12 10 1

Cody Dopps, Dillon Matteson (5) and Kendrick Lee. Drew Rasmussen and Brett Rypien. W — Rasmussen. L — Dopps.

KALISPELL — Lee 0-2, Matteson 0-2, Sean O’Connell 1-2, Dillon Eaves 2-3, Adam Frandsen 1-3, Cody Dopps 1-3, Charlie Obermiller 1-3, Matt McLean 0-2, Jake Johnson 0-3.

2B — O’Connell 1; RBI — O’Connell 1, Eaves 1, Frandsen 1, Obermiller 1.

CLUB SPOKANE — Gage Burland 0-2, Spencer Locati 2-3, Evan Douglas 2-4, Alex Campbell 0-2, Rypien 1-3, JT Phelan 0-3, Matt Hammond 2-3, Adam Matthews 2-4, Connor Cantu 1-2.

2B — Douglas, Rypien; 3B — Locati; RBI — Douglas (2), Rypien (2), Hammond (2), Burland, Locati, Matthews.

Reds 7, Lakers AA 0

WHITEFISH — The Lakers were held scoreless in the first game of the day, losing to the Chino (Calif.) Reds.

Dillon Eaves led the Lakers at the plate going 2 for 3. Kalispell had just five hits in the game.

Chino scored five runs in the second inning and starting pitcher Brett Early threw five strikeouts in the complete game shutout.

Kalispell 000 000 0 — 0 5 1

Chino (Calif.) 050 011 x — 7 7 0

Hank McLeod, Matteson (6) and Kendrick Lee. Brett Early and Christian Kelley. W — Early. L — McLeod.

KALISPELL — Lee 0-3, Matteson 0-2, O’Connell 0-3, Eaves 2-3, Frandsen 1-3, Obermiller 0-3, Nate Bengston 1-2, Zach Personett 0-3, Johnson 1-3.

CHINO — Michael Johnson 0-4, Greg Espinosa 1-4, Rodnee Little 0-3, Anthony Virgen 2-2, Kelley 2-2, Nathan Virgen 0-2, Jonny Reynoso 0-2, Reynoso 2-3, Dillon Grap 0-2.

2B — A. Virgen; RBI — Johnson, Espinosa, Kelley, Reynoso.

Cannons 10, Twins AA 1

Reds 15, Twins AA 0

WHITEFISH — Glacier could muster just three hits, two by Carl Talsma, against the Spokane Cannons.

Talsma doubled in the lone runs for the Twins in the fifth inning.

In the last game of the day, the Chino (Calif.) Reds rolled to an easy win (box score not available by press deadline).

Chino scored six runs in both the second and fifth innings.

The Twins (6-26-1) face the Kalispell Lakers tonight at 7:30 in the final game before Sunday’s championship round.

Spokane Cannons 145 00 — 10 11 2

Glacier Twins 000 01 — 1 3 5

Fink and Smith; Nick LaGrandeur, Bryce Wehrli and Wehrli, Jeremy Nielsen. W — Fink. L — GaGrandeur.

SPOKANE — S. Hilpert 0-2, C. Duckett 1-4, Mcglocklin 1-3, Peterson 2-4, Smith 0-3, Sturgis 0-3, Gaza 1-3, Walker 3-4, McCauly 2-2, Fink 1-1.

GLACIER — Nielsen 0-3, Carl Talsma 2-3, Wehrli 0-3, Peter Seymour 1-3, Jake Slaybaugh 0-2, Shane Marcial 0-1, Garrett Houston 0-1, Conner Donahue 0-2, Nathan Carr 0-1.

2B—Duckett, Peterson (2), Gaza, Fink; Talsma; HR—Walker; RBIs—Duckett, Mcglocklin, Peterson (4), Walker; Talsma.

Mariners A 8,

Twins A 0

POLSON — Robbie Gauthier threw a 1-hitter to power the Mission Valley Mariners to a victory over Glacier in their Firecracker Tournament.

Gauthier had six strikeouts and issued one walk.

Seven different Mariners had hits in the contest.

Glacier Twins A 000 00 — 0 1 2

Mission Valley A 132 11 — 8 7 0

Robert Reasor, Austin Robins (4) and NA; Robbie Gauthier and NA. W — Gauthier. L — Reasor.

GLACIER — Trevor Houston 0-1, Jayce Fagerland 1-2, Nakia Alexander 0-2, Reasor 0-2, Zac Darling 0-1, Lucas Leigh 0-2, Ryder Herman 0-2, James Ratzlaff 0-1, Kyler Howke 0-1.

MISSION VALLEY — Justin Evertz 1-3, Zeke Webster-Yaqui 0-3, Gauthier 1-1, Chris Clary 1-3, Jacob Young 1-1, Jack Humphreys 1-2, Bradley Pichler 1-3, Cole McArthur 1-1, Dalton Molzhon 0-2.

RBIs—Evertz, Webster-Yaqui, Gauthier, Clary, Humphreys, McArthur, Molzhon.

Rangers 10, Red Sox 2

POLSON — Ryan Holder (8-0) held the Bitterroot Red Sox to three singles and smacked his sixth home run of the season as the Kootenai Valley Rangers rolled to an easy victory over Bitterroot in the Firecracker Tournament.

Holder struck out eight in the sixth-inning contest, raising his season total to 106. It’s the fourth-straight year Holder has broken the century mark in strikeouts.

His home run was a solo opposite-field shot to right field in the first inning.

“Every time he goes out on the mound it’s fun to watch,” his father and Rangers coach Brent Holder said. “He just throws and throws and throws.”

Holder now shares the team lead in home runs with Bryton Guckenberg and Kade Davis.

Holder is hitting .454, a team best, and has a team high 39 RBIs.

Eureka, 21-14 overall and 1-1 in tournament play, faces the Missoula Pioneers at 8:30 a.m.

Bitterroot Red Sox 001 100 — 2 3 4

Kootenai Valley 106 003 — 10 5 0

C. Lund, K. Lane (3), N. Loranger (4) and T. Zeiler; Ryan Holder and Gallen Sullivan. W — Holder (8-0). L — Lund.

BITTERROOT — D. Burnham 2-3, B. Zeiler 0-2, C. Combs 0-3, J. Capko 1-2, T. Lehr 0-2, K. Crossman 0-2, Lund 0-1, N. Swartzer 0-2, T. Zeiler 0-1, Loranger 0-0.

KOOTENAI VALLEY — CJ Henrie 0-4, Bryton Guckenberg 0-3, Holder 1-3, Kade Davis 1-4, Dalton Smith 1-3, RJ Glover 0-1, Sullivan 1-3, Mark Good 0-2, Brandon Conard 1-3.

HR—Holder; RBIs—B. Zeiler; Holder (2); Smith (3), Sullivan, Conard

Firecracker Tournament

At Polson

Friday’s Other Scores

Dillon Cubs 4, Walla Walla Bruins 2

Dillon Cubs 9, Mission Rockies 1

Missoula Pioneers 10, Bitterroot Red Sox 1