McClure, Mariners rock Libby, 20-2
POLSON — It’s not a good time to play the Mission Valley Mariners this season, a team that can’t seem to loose.
A night after a 14-4 win over the Kootenai Valley Rangers, the Mariners trounced the Libby Loggers 20-2 on Wednesday night.
Mission Valley scored in every inning of the contest, but none proved to be more deflating for the Loggers than the 12 runs the Mariners sent across the plate in the bottom of the sixth inning.
Bransen Krebs earned the win on the mound for Mission Valley, pitching six innings of four-hit baseball. He allowed just two runs, walked one and struck out five batters on the night.
Offensively, Micah McClure couldn’t be stopped.
The Mariner went 4 for 5 with a game-high six RBIs. He hit two doubles while trying to compete with teammate Alex Killian at the plate.
Killian had one less hit that McClure, going 3 for 5 with four RBIs, but the Mission Valley catcher launched two home runs for a multi-homer game.
Zeke Webster-Yaqui, 3 for 5, added a pair of doubles and two RBIs while Derek Peel, 1 for 3, hit the game’s only triple. He also drove in a run and scored three times.
The pitcher Krebs also had a positive performance at the plate. His 2 for 5 effort included an RBI and three runs scored.
Bradley Pichler had a two-hit game. He went 2 for 4 with a pair of RBIs.
Libby put two runs across in the top of the fourth. Catcher Oliver Grupenhoff hit a double and drove in a run. Erik Lauer also had an RBI for the Loggers. Will Reichel added a base hit as did Luke Haggerty, who went a perfect 1 for 1 at the plate. Reichel and Haggerty scored the runs that Grupenhoff and Lauer drove in.
Libby will travel to Florence take on the Bitteroot Red Sox on Friday.
The Mariners, hoping to continue their winning ways, will be in Florence with Libby, challenging the Bitteroot Bucs to a doubleheader at 3 p.m.
Libby Loggers 000 200 0 — 2 4 5
Mission Valley 211 22 (12) x — 20 17 1
Will Reichel, Braydon Thom (6), Austin Marshall (6) and Oliver Grupenhoff. Bransen Krebs, Trevor Paro (7) and Alex Killian. W — Krebs. L — Reichel.
LIBBY — Cameron Burkes 0-4, Luke Haggerty 1-1, Will Reichel 1-3, Oliver Grupenhoff 1-3, Dylan Lane 0-3, Erik Lauer 0-2, Quincy Grupenhoff 0-1, Austin Marshall 0-3, Braydon Thom 0-3, Collin Johnson 0-2.
MISSION VALLEY — Bransen Krebs 2-5, Trevor Paro 0-1, Zeke Webster-Yaqui 3-4, Alex Killian 3-5, T.J. Olson 1-5, Bradley Pichler 2-4, Derek Peel 1-3, Jacob Harrod 0-1, Raymond Matt 1-1, Aaron Rassmussen 0-1, Micah McClure 4-5, Brenen Abromeit 0-0, Warren Wood 0-0.
2B — O. Grupenhoff, Webster-Yaqui 2, McClure . 3B — Peel. HR — Killian 2. RBIs — O. Grupenhoff, Lauer, Krebs, Webster-Yaqui 2, Killian 4, Olson, Pichler 2, Peel, Harrod, Matt, Rassmussen, McClure 6.