Kats roll Whitefish

COLUMBIA FALLS — Ashley Trueblood struck out 13 batters and belted a home run to right-center field in the second inning with one runner aboard in Columbia Falls’ 15-3 Northwestern A softball victory over Whitefish on Saturday afternoon.

Trueblood went 3 for 4 at the plate as Columbia Falls banged out 16 hits.

Tiffany Hummer, 2 for 3, slammed a triple and Peyton Kehr, 2 for 3, doubled twice.

Kehr, a center fielder, was making her second varsity start.

Winter Kemppainen also went 3 for 4 for the Wildkats and Breanna Friar had two hits in four trips to the plate.

Whitefish took a quick 1-0 lead on a two-out home run by Jordan Sletter, 2 for 2, to right-center field in the first inning.

Michaela McDowell also went 2 for 2 for the Bulldogs.

Columbia Falls tallied five runs in the second inning and followed with six in the third.

The Wildkats added a run in the fourth and closed with three in the fifth.

Columbia Falls (4-6-1 overall, 2-2 league) is back in action on Monday hosting Shelby at 4 p.m. Whitefish then hosts Shelby at 6 p.m.

Whitefish    100    20    —    3    6    4

Columbia Falls    056    13    —    15    16    1

Halle Reading, Jordan Sletten (4) and Madi Davis; Ashley Trueblood and Samantha Collins, Lottie Ellis (5). W — Trueblood. L — Reading.

WHITEFISH — Malia Morris 1-3, Georgia Donaldson 0-3, Sletten 2-2, Davis 0-3, Micah McFeely 1-2, Reading 0-1, Mickey Dooley 0-1, Michaela McDowell 2-2, Savannah Eisenbarth 0-2, Abby Reese 0-2.

COLUMBIA FALLS — Tiffany Hummer 2-3, Katie Price 1-4, Trueblood 3-4, Breanna Friar 2-4, Winter Kemppainen 3-4, Peyton Kehr 2-3, Carlee Brown 0-0, Alysha Cantu 1-3, Collins 1-1, Ellis 0-1, Caitlyn Hoerner 1-1.

2B—Kehr (2); 3B—Hummer; HR—Sletten; Trueblood; RBIs—Sletten, McFeely; Hummer, Price, Trueblood (3), Kemppainen, Kehr, Cantu, Collins, Hoerner.