Baseball roundup: Twins double up
<p>Glacier Twins second baseman Colton Gove (6) throws to first to try to make a double play Thursday night during Glacier's win over the Royals in the Ed Gallo Baseball Tournament at Memorial Park. June 27, 2013 in Whitefish, Montana. (Patrick Cote/Daily Inter Lake)</p>
<p>Glacier second baseman Kyler Howke fields the ball Thursday night during Glacier's win over the Royals in the Ed Gallo Baseball Tournament at Memorial Park. June 27, 2013 in Whitefish, Montana. (Patrick Cote/Daily Inter Lake)</p>
WHITEFISH — The Glacier Twins A team opened the Ed Gallo baseball tournament with a pair of wins over Canadian teams Thursday, edging the Cranbrook (British Columbia) Bandits 6-5 and routing the Fort Macleod (Alberta) Royals 15-1.
The Twins (21-11) rallied with two runs in the bottom of the seventh inning in their walk-off win over Cranbrook. Peter Seymor singled to drive in Shane Marcial for the winning run.
Colton Gove finished with a double and two RBIs and Austin Robins earned the win, pitching 2 1-3 hitless innings in relief of starter Hugh Ramlow.
The Twins scored 13 runs in the second inning of their victory over Fort Macleod. Zac Darling batted 3 for 3 with two doubles and four RBIs. Brandon Maassen was also 3 for 3 and Jake Slaybaugh finished 4 for 4 and drove in five runs.
Maassen earned the win, pitching three scoreless innings before ceding the reins to reliever Gove.
In other tournament action, the Glacier Babe Ruth All-Stars beat the Twins’ B team 10-2 and Cranbrook beat Fort Macleod 11-3.
Pool play resumes today when the Glacier All-Stars take on the Missoula Frontiers at 11 a.m. The Kalispell Lakers A team will play Cranbrook at 1:45 p.m., the Twins’ B team will play the Calgary PBF Redbirds at 4:40 p.m. and the Twins and Lakers A teams will finish the day with a nine-inning conference game scheduled for 7:30 p.m.
Cranbrook 000 050 0 — 5 4 5
Twins A 200 101 2 — 6 4 4
W - Austin Robins. L - McDonald.
CRANBROOK - Ovlette 0-3, Thorn 0-3, Marra 1-4, Blackburn 0-3, Phillips 0-3, McDonald 1-3, Grimm 1-3, Luke 1-3, Bird 0-2.
TWINS A - Jayce Fagerland 0-3, Robert Simmons 1-4, Colton Gove 2-4, Jake Slaybaugh 0-3, Peter Seymor 1-2, Kyler Howke 0-2, Zac Darling 0-3, Hugh Ramlow 0-1, Shane Marcial 0-2, Austin Robins 0-2.
2B - Gove. RBIs - Marra, Blackburn, Phillips; Gove 2, Peter Seymor.
Ft. Macleod 000 10 — 1 6 2
Twins A 1(13)1 0x — 15 15 0
W - Brandon Maassen. L - Danny Shepherd.
FORT MACLEOD - Aiden Kidd 1-2, Josh Foster 0-3, Blair Goodreau 1-1, D. Shepherd 0-2, Ty Odney 1-2, Jack Shepherd 1-3, T.J. Tornquist 1-3, Tyson Gordeau 1-2, Michael Mctighe 0-1.
TWINS A - Jayce Fagerland 2-3, Shane Marcial 1-3, Jake Slaybaugh 4-4, Peter Seymor 0-3, Colton Gove 1-3, Kyler Howke 0-2, Zac Darling 3-3, Maassen 3-3, Robert Simmons 1-2, Austin Robins 0-1.
2B - Darling 2. 3B - Maassen. RBIs - Slaybaugh 5, Darling 4, Maassen 2, Marcial, Gove.
Boys of Summer Tournament
Livingston 8, Mission Valley 7
BELGRADE — The Mission Valley Mariners rallied from a 7-2 deficit, but came up one run short in their opener at the Boys of Summer Tournament.
Livingston scored six runs against Mission Valley starting pitcher Jeremiah Crawford in the third inning and scored what turned out to be the game-winner in the fifth against reliever Aaron Rasmussen.
Zeke Webster-Yaqui, Crawford, Alex Killian and TJ Olson each batted 2 for 4 for the Mariners. Tanner Hall batted 3 for 4 with a home run to lead Livingston.
Mission V. 200 022 1 — 7 10 4
Livingston 106 010 x — 8 10 4
Jeremiah Crawford, Aaron Rasmussen (4) and Alex Killian. Scott Wilson, Buck Spallone (7) and Colton Gravne. W - Wilson. L - J. Crawford.
MISSION VALLEY - Ryan Pablo 1-2, Brennan Andrews 1-2, Zeke Webster-Yaqui 2-4, J. Crawford 2-4, Killian 2-4, Bradley Pichler 0-3, TJ Olson 2-4, JT Probst 0-2, Bransen Krebs 0-2, Nick Crawford 0-1, Rasmussen 0-1, Jared Young 0-1.
LIVINGSTON - Wilson 1-3, Tanner Hall 3-4, Austin Carroll 1-4, Gravne 1-3, Sterling Lay 1-3, Spallone 0-3, Kalvin Kunda 1-3, Colton Landath 1-3, Gunnar Lehrer 1-3.
2B - J. Crawford 2, Killian 2, Webster-Yaqui; Gravne. HR - Hall. RBIs - Andrews, Webster-Yaqui, J. Crawford, Killian, Pichler; Carroll 2, Gravne 2, Hall, Spallone, Landath.
Griffith Tournament
Libby 2, Miles City 0
MILES CITY — Jared Winslow tallied 14 strikeouts in a seven-inning two-hitter and the Libby Loggers shut out Miles City 2-0 on the opening day of the Harry Griffith Tournament.
Both of Libby’s runs came in the fifth inning. Luke Haggerty’s RBI-single scored Collin Johnson and Cameron Burkes scored when Winslow was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded.
Burkes finished 2 for 3.
Libby plays Glasgow at 11:30 p.m. and Sidney at 2 p.m. today.
Libby 000 020 0 — 2 6 0
Miles City 000 000 0 — 0 2 1
Jared Winslow and Oliver Grupenhoff. Garrett Baldry, Ernest Lizer (6) and Gavin Askin. W - Winslow. L - Baldry.
LIBBY - Will Reichel 1-2, Luke Haggerty 1-4, Winslow 1-2, Micah Germany 0-4, Grupenhoff 0-2, Andrew Haggerty 1-3, Josh Foote 0-2, Dylon Lane 0-1, Collin Johnson 0-2, Cameron Burkes 2-3.
MILES CITY - Timmy Regan 0-3, Cameron Brown 0-3, Baldry 1-2, Lizer 0-1, Askin 0-3, Chase Gunther 1-2, Robert Hofer 0-1, Brenden Jordan 0-2, Gavin Gundlach 0-2, Jarrett Gunther 0-2.
2B - Baldry. RBIs - L. Haggerty, Winslow.