Baseball: Loggers finish 4th at State A tourney
HELENA — The Libby Loggers’ season came to an abrupt end with back-to-back losses to Laurel and Belgrade at the double-elimination Class A American Legion State Baseball Tournament Sunday.
The Loggers fell 6-5 to Laurel in the unbeaten semifinal, then lost 13-5 to Belgrade in a loser-out contest a few hours later. Libby entered Sunday on an eight-game winning streak.
Libby (38-22) led Laurel 5-3 after seven and a half innings, but the Dodgers rallied for three runs in the bottom of the eighth. Daniel Stamper’s RBI single tied the score at 5 before Austin Cannon hit a sacrifice fly to drive in the go-ahead run.
Jared Winslow, Micah Germany and Oliver Grupenhoff each had two hits for the Loggers.
Libby also had a late lead against Belgrade before giving up 10 runs in the bottom of the eighth.
The Loggers finished fourth at the tournament, which concludes today with the championship game.
Libby 401 000 000 — 5 8 3
Laurel 030 000 03x — 6 3 2
Micah Germany, Luke Haggerty (8) and Oliver Grupenhoff. Anthony Panella and Mason O’Donnell. W - Panella. L - L. Haggerty.
LIBBY - Will Reichel 0-4, L. Haggerty 1-4, Jared Winslow 2-3, Germany 2-4, Grupenhoff 2-3, Andrew Haggerty 0-3, Josh Foote 1-4, Collin Johnson 0-3, Cameron Burkes 0-2, Austin Marshall 0-1, Isaak Jones 0-1.
LAUREL - Kam Fisher 0-3, Panella 0-3, TJ Schmidt 0-4, Dakota Kortese 0-2, Caje Golden 2-3, Jake Anderson 0-2, O’Donnell 0-4, Daniel Stamper 1-3, Austin Cannon 0-2.
2B - Golden. RBIs - Grupenhoff 2, Germany, A. Haggerty; O’Donnell 2, Panella, Cannon.
Libby 000 000 131 — 5 8 3
Belgrade 000 003 0(10)x — 13 16 3
Andrew Haggerty, Jared Winslow (8), Oliver Grupenhoff (8), Collin Johnson (8) and Grupenhoff, Micah Germany (7), Grupenhoff (8). James Olson and Conner Switzer. W - Olson. L - A. Haggerty.
LIBBY - Will Reichel 3-5, Luke Haggerty 1-4, Winslow 0-3, Germany 0-3, Grupenhoff 2-3, A. Haggerty 0-4, Josh Foote 0-3, Austin Marshall 0-2, Dylon Lane 1-1, Johnson 0-1, Isaak Jones 1-4.
BELGRADE - Brett Franklin 3-5, Josh Gier 2-4, Trevor Mahn 4-4, Switzer 3-5, Olson 2-4, Teagan Barry 1-5, Chris Schreckengost 0-4, Trey Mounts 1-2, Koby Ruff 0-2.
2B - Reichel, Grupenhoff; Olson 2. RBIs - L. Haggerty, Germany, Grupenhoff, Lane; Olson 5, Franklin 3, Mahn, Barry, Ruff.
Loser-out
Glasgow Reds 4, Missoula Mavericks 2
Missoula 000 020 000 — 2 8 2
Glasgow 001 002 01x — 4 7 4
W – Andy Gardner. L – Trevor Dickey.
MISSOULA – Jackson King 1-5, Jakob Bierig 2-4, Trevor Dickey 2-5, Zanon Fulbright 3-5, Josh Tabor 0-4, Nick Yovetich 0-5, Connor McKillop 0-1, Walker Kay 0-2, Josh Harrington 0-3, Ben Tabaracci 0-1, Aidan Collins 0-3.
GLASGOW – Grant Legare 0-3, Jake Page 1-3, Ryan Padden 1-1, Tom Leland 2-4, Wacy Ortman 1-4, Keil Krumwiede 0-3, Gage Legare 0-4, Walt Dalbey 0-2, Thibault 0-2, John Koessel 1-3, Chase Foscum 1-3.
2B – Padden, Koessel, Dickey. 3B – Foscum. HR – Leland. RBIs – Leland 2, Ortman, Bierig, Dickey.