Softball: Columbia Falls blanks Corvallis; Eureka falls to Deer Lodge

FRENCHTOWN — Columbia Falls’ Ashley Trueblood pitched four scoreless innings and batted 2 for 3 with a double in leading the Wildkats to a 10-0 win over Corvallis at the Frenchtown Invitational softball tournament Saturday.

Relief pitcher Alex Pederson closed out the game with a scoreless fifth inning.

Corvallis 000 00 — 0 1 1

Columbia Falls 160 12 — 10 8 0

Zena Smith and Gianna Schrock. Ashley Trueblood, Alex Pederson (5) and Breanna Friar, Courtney Murray (5). W – Trueblood. L – Smith.

CORVALLIS – Schrock 0-2, Doyle 0-2, Capko 0-2, Kriskovich 0-2, Irwin 0-0, Grenfell 0-0, Smith 1-2, Gagnon 0-2, Bourgeois 0-1.

COLUMBIA FALLS – Tiffany Hummer 1-4, Ciarra Holm 1-2, Trueblood 2-3, Amanda Morrison 1-1, Kathrin Jetty 1-2, Catie King 1-3, Madi Fetters 1-2, Pederson 0-1, Lauren Fields 0-1, Alysha Cantu 0-2, Friar 1-2, Murray 0-0.

2B – Trueblood.

Deer Lodge 15, Eureka 2

Deer Lodge 24, Eureka 2

POLSON — Eureka lost both ends of a doubleheader with Deer Lodge via the 10-run-rule.

Alaina Wright drove in two runs in the first inning to give Eureka (2-9-1) a lead in game one, but the Lady Lions gave up seven runs in the bottom of the second, one in the third and seven in the fourth.

Deer Lodge scored 16 runs the first two innings of game two to run away with the victory. Jaimie Soderling batted 2 for 3 for Eureka.

Eureka 200 00 — 2 5 2

Deer Lodge 071 7X — 15 10 1

Laura Williams and Hannah Price. Delaney Knuchel and Dani Walker. W – Knuchel. L – Williams.

EUREKA – Nicole Anderson 1-3, Jaimie Soderling 1-3, Cassidy Morgan 1-2, Price 0-1, Evynn Anderson 0-2, Alaina Wright 2-2, Elliot Peterson 0-3, Haley Lindgren 0-2, Williams 0-2

DEER LODGE – Annie Lombardi 2-3, Ivy Duncan 2-2, Tierra Korang 0-2, Walker 1-3, Michelle Christnacht 1-2, Kelsie Gray 1-3, Knuchel 1-3, Natalie Padovich 2-3, Brianna Bernhardt 0-2.

2B – Morgan; Lombardi, Gray. RBIs – Wright 2; Lombardi 3, Duncan 3, Walker, Christnacht 2, Gray 2, Knuchel, Padovich.

Deer Lodge 884 40 — 24 13 3

Eureka 200 00 — 2 6 6

Kelsie Gray and Dani Walker. Alex Hannay, Ashlen Pacella (2) and Hannah Price. W – Gray. L – Hannay.

DEER LODGE – Annie Lombardi 2-6, Ivy Duncan 3-4, Tierra Korang 0-1, Hunter Therriault 1-3, Walker 0-3, Michelle Christnacht 1-4, Gray 0-3, Natalie Padovich 2-3, Delaney Knuchel 2-3, Sara Forbes 2-4.

EUREKA – Nicole Anderson 1-2, Shelbey Lindgren 0-0, Evynn Anderson 1-2, Cassidy Morgan 1-3, Price 1-3, Jaimie Soderling 2-3, Charity Parsons 0-3, Elliot Peterson 0-3, Haley Lindgren 0-0, Hannay 0-1, Courtney Lemer 0-2.

2B – Duncan 2. RBIs – Lombardi 2, Korang, Therriault, Walker, Christnacht 4, Gray 2, Padovich 2, Knuchel 2, Forbes 3; Morgan, Soderling.