Lakers fall to Mavs in AA baseball title contest
MISSOULA — The Missoula Mavericks defeated Kalispell’s Lakers 7-0 on Monday in the Class AA championship game at the Missoula Memorial Day American Legion baseball tournament at Lindborg-Cregg Field.
Missoula led 3-0 after three innings and scored four times in the sixth to ice it.
Pitchers Tres Cunningham and Nathan Jewett combined on a three-hitter for the Mavericks.
Chris Combs, Adam Frandsen and Lukas Leigh all had singles for the Lakers.
Missoula and Kalispell also played a Sunday night tournament game with Missoula rolling to a 12-3 victory. The Mavs scored seven runs off six Lakers’ errors in that one.
Kalispell (11-9) beat the Helena Senators in Monday’s other tournament outing, 3-2.
NOTE: Kalispell Lakers coach Ryan Malmin picked up his 500th career coaching victory at the tournament on Saturday with a 9-1 victory over Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.
Championship Game
Missoula 120 004 0 — 7 7 1
Kalispell 000 000 0 — 0 3 0
Tres Cunningham, Nathan Jewett (7) and Heggen. Robert Reaser, Lukas Leigh (6) and Adam Frandsen. W – Cunningham. L – Reaser.
MISSOULA – Riley King 1-4, Slade Heggen 0-3, Nathan Jewett 0-3, Shane Olson 3-3, Matt McHugh 0-4, Alec Bouchee 0-1, Josh Meader 3-3, Tanner Rheinschmidt 0-4, Ryan Anderson 0-1.
KALISPELL – Chris Combs 1-3, Charlie Obermiller 0-2, Dillon Eaves 0-3, Frandsen 1-3, Sean O’Connell 0-3, Dillon Matteson 0-3, Leigh 1-3, Jake Barstow 0-2, Luke LaFontaine 0-2, Colten Wiley 0-1.
2B – Meader. RBIs – Olson 3, Meader, Rheinschmidt.
Helena Senators 000 101 0 — 2 4 0
Kalispell 200 000 1 — 3 7 1
Joe Spradlin Ryan Estep; Dillon Eaves and Adam Frandsen. W — Spradlin. L — Eaves.
HELENA — Tristan Shea 1-4, Marcus Lindgren 1-3, Brad Tiefenthaler 1-4, Dan Hansen 0-3, Zach Merzlak 1-3, Estep 0-3, Tanner Rook 0-3, Coltin Volesky 0-1, Reed Carter 0-1.
KALISPELL — Chris Combs 1-3, Charlie Obermiller 1-2, Eaves 1-3, Sean O’Connell 1-2, Frandsen 1-3, Dillon Matteson 1-3, Robert Reaser 0-2, Lukas Leigh 1-3, Hank McLeod 0-2.
2B—Shea, Tiefenthaler, Eaves; HR—Leigh; RBIs—Tiefenthaler, Hansen; Frandsen, Matteson, Leigh.
Sunday
Missoula 034 203 — 12 9 0
Kalispell 001 200 — 3 5 6
Josh Meader (5), Anthony Hilliard (1) Slade Heggen. Luke LaFontaine (4), Colten Wiley (1.2), Adam Frandsen (0.1) Dillon Matteson. W – Meader. L – LaFontaine.
MISSOULA – Riley King 0-4, Heggen 1-3, Nathan Jewett 1-2, Shane Olson 0-2, Matt McHugh 2-4, Alec Bouchee 2-2, Tanner Rheinschmidt 2-4, Kip Vetos 0-3, Tres Cunningham 1-2.
KALISPELL – Chris Combs 0-3, Charlie Obermiller 2-3, Dillon Eaves 0-2, Lukas Leigh 0-3, Adam Frandsen 0-2, Matteson 1-3, Robert Reaser 0-2, Sean O’Connell 2-2, Justin Wallace 0-1, Wiley 0-1.
2B – Heggen, Jewett. Matteson, O’Connell. RBIs – Jewett, Olson (3), McHugh, Bouchee (2), Rheinschmidt, Vetos. Obermiller, Matteson, O’Connell.
Missoula A 9, Kalispell A 2
MISSOULA — The Kalispell Lakers couldn’t keep pace with the Missoula Mavericks at the Class A Missoula Memorial Day American Legion baseball tournament.
Walker Malmin went 2 for 3 to pace the Lakers. Zach Sands and Brett Thomas had the other hits.
Missoula Mavericks 111 024 0 — 9 4 2
Kalispell Lakers 100 010 x — 2 4 2
Nick Yovetich, Ben Tabaracci (6) and Ian Descamps; Levi Brennanmen and Jeff Bengston. W — Yovetich. L — Brennanmen.
MISSOULA — Jackson King 0-1, Jakob Bierig 1-2, Tabaracci 0-3, Zannon Fulbright 1-3, Connor McKillop 1-3, Austin Bohnsack 0-2, Travis Zander 0-2, Josh Harrington 1-2, Austin Kominek 0-3, Descamps 0-1.
KALISPELL — Walker Malmin 2-3, Brooks Krause 0-3, Bengston 0-2, Chandler Eaves 0-1, Zach Sands 1-1, Andy Bemus 0-3, Brett Thomas 1-3, Sam Compton 0-2, Chasen Eaves 0-0, Stephen Zorn 0-1, Dominic Faith 0-1, Jordan Engle 0-1, Brandon Purdy 0-1.
2B—Fulbright; RBIs—Bierig, Tabaracci, Fulbright (2), McKillop (2); Krause.