Legion baseball: Mariners fall short vs. Bruins

by The Daily Inter Lake
| June 14, 2013 10:17 PM

DILLON — The Bitterroot Bruins scored a run in the top of the seventh inning to edge the Mission Valley Mariners 6-5 on Friday at the Maybelle Arthur American Legion baseball tournament.

Mission Valley jumped out to a 3-0 lead after two innings and lead 5-2 after three. The Bruins tied it at 5-all with three runs in the fifth.

Bradley Pichler had a perfect day at the plate for the Mariners, going 3 for 3, clubbing a home run and driving in one run. Zeke Webster-Yaqui tripled for the Mariners.

Justin Horvath homered for Bitterroot.

Jeremiah Crawford went the distance on the mound for Mission Valley. He allowed four hits, struck out nine and walked three.

Tournament action continues today.

Bitterroot Bruins 002 030 1 — 6 4 4

Mission Valley 122 000 0 — 5 8 3

Dylan Gavlak, Rees LeSoine (7) and Justin Horvath; Jeremiah Crawford and Alex Killian. W — LeSoine. L — Crawford.

BITTERROOT — Bret Huxtable 1-4, Chase Conner 0-4, Brennan Fisher 0-2, Alex Draper 0-2, LeSoine 0-3, Joe Johnson 0-3, Riley Della Silva 1-3, Gavlak 1-2, Horvath 1-3, Koten Wilson 0-1.

MISSION VALLEY — Ryan Pablo 1-4, Zeke Webster-Yaqui 1-4, Alex Killian 1-4, Bradley Pichler 3-3, Brennan Andrews 0-2, Nick Crawford 0-2, TJ Olson 1-3, Jared Young 1-3, Aaron Rasmussen 0-2.

2B—Huxtable, Gavlak; 3B—Webster-Yaqui; HR—Horvath; Pichler; RBIs—Huxtable, Conner, Horvath; Pablo, Webster-Yaqui, Pichler, Andrews.