Legion baseball: Lakers split with Dukes
The Kalispell Lakers AA finished up Sunday action on a high note by defeating the Sherwood Park Dukes 14-3 in an afternoon Canadian Days Tournament contest at Griffin Field.
The two American Legion baseball teams met earlier in the day in tournament play, with Sherwood Park winning that contest 14-5.
Sam Crompton, 3 for 3, drove in one run and scored twice while Brandon Maassen, 2 for 3, drove in two runs and scored once for the Lakers in the loss. Crompton and Maassen doubled and Maassen also tripled.
Justin Wallace, 1 for 2, drove in four runs for the Lakers later in the victory over Sherwood Park and scored three times. He had the game’s lone extra-base hit — a triple.
Brett Thomas, 2 for 4 had three RBIs and Walker Malmin, 1 for 3, two RBIs.
Kalispell scored five times in the opening inning and led 8-3 after three.
The Lakers pushed six runs across the plate in the fourth inning.
“Our plate approach, our at-bats were better (in this game) than they were the last couple days,” Lakers coach Ryan Malmin said of the finale.
“We struggled this weekend at the dish, but that will get better.”
Coach Malmin said pitching was a high point earlier in the tournament with Wallace and Maassen both throwing extremely well in two heartbreaking losses.
Sherwood Park 012 000 0 — 3 5 3
Kalispell 503 600 x — 14 8 8
Aiden Lucas, Carson Kirwer (1), Brendin Serna (3), Tyler Mathieu (5), Jackson Campell (6) and NA; Walker Malmin, Chasen Eaves (7) and Levi Brenneman. W — Malmin. L — Lucas.
SHERWOOD PARK — Jackson Campbell 1-4, Zach Yuzda 1-4, Owen Bessette 0-3, Evan Lacoursiere 0-3, Forrest Hisey 1-4, Serna 1-4, Jordan Parranto 0-3, Ryan Koop 1-2, Kyle Prather 0-3.
KALISPELL — Brandon Maassen 1-3, Malmin 1-3, Brenneman 1-2, Sam Crompton 0-2, Justin Rich 0-1, Justin Wallace 1-2, Jake Barstow 1-2, Tiler Whiteaker 0-1, Brett Thomas 2-4, Colten Wiley 1-4.
3B—Wallace; RBIs—Hisey, Serna, Koop; Maassen, Malmin (2), Wallace (4), Barstow, Thomas (3), Wiley (2).
Sherwood Park 253 004 — 14 11 1
Kalispell 022 001 — 5 6 4
Scott Gillespie and NA; Justin Rich, Colten Wiley (2), Levi Brenneman (6) and Adam Frandsen. W — Gillespie. L — Rich.
SHERWOOD PARK — Carson Kirwer 1-4, Aiden Lucas 0-4, Tanner Kirwer 2-3, Owen Bessette 2-4, Zach Yuzda 3-4, Brendin Serna 2-3, Tyler Mathieu 0-4, Kykle Prather 0-1, Jackson Campell 1-4.
KALISPELL — Walker Malmin 0-4, Brandon Maassen 2-3, Brenneman 0-2, Frandsen 0-2, Andy Bemis 0-2, Wiley 0-1, Sam Crompton 3-3, Chasen Eaves 1-2, Justin Wallace 0-1, Brett Thomas 0-2, Jake Barstow 0-0.
2B—Bessette; Crompton, Maassen; 3B—Bessette; Maassen; RBIs—C. Kirwer (2), Lucas, T. Kirwer (3), Bessette (2), Yuzda (4), Prather; Maassen (2), Brenneman, Crompton, Wallace.
Twins 3, Lakers 1
The Glacier Twins scored two runs in the top of the seventh inning to edge the Kalispell Lakers on Friday night.
Kalispell tied the contest at 1-all with a run in the bottom of the fifth on a RBI by Maassen.
Lakers hurler Wallace allowed three hits, struck out three and walked three batters in going the distance.
Twins starter Austin Robbins allowed two hits, walked two and fanned five in 5 1/3 innings.
Glacier 100 000 2 — 3 3 2
Kalispell 000 010 0 — 1 3 1
Austin Robbins, Nic Muus (6) and NA; Justin Wallace and NA. W — Robbins. L — Wallace.
GLACIER — Colton Gove 0-2, Jayce Fagerland 1-3, Tristin Steinwand 0-2, Muus 1-3, Vincent Smith 0-3, Kyler Howke 1-3, Colten Parker 0-3, AJ Wetch 0-1, Dakota Bridwell 0-3.
KALISPELL — Walker Malmin 0-4, Brandon Maassen 1-3, Levi Brenneman 1-4, Adam Frandsen 0-3, Andy Bemis 1-2, Justin Rich 0-3, Chasen Eaves 0-1, Jake Barstow 0-2, Colten Wiley 0-2, Tiler Whiteaker 0-0.
2B—Muus; RBIs—Muus, Bridwell; Maassen.
Bucs 5, Loggers 1
Loggers 11, Bucs 10
LIBBY — A four-run rally in the bottom of the seventh inning was enough to send Libby to a 11-10 victory over the Bitterroot Bucs in the second game of a doubleheader on Sunday.
Cameron Burkes, 4 for 4, led the Libby attack. Oliver Grupenhoff, 1 for 3, and Ryan Huffman, 2 for 3, both drove in two runs.
Will Reichel and Austin Marshall also had two hits each for Libby.
Libby led 1-0 after three innings, but Bitterroot scored three times in the fourth and added a run in the fifth and seventh innings to take the opener.
Reichel had two of Libby’s five hits in that outing.
Game 1
Bitterroot Bucs 000 310 1 — 5 9 1
Libby 001 000 0 — 1 5 0
Dylan Gaulack and Patrick Pape; Will Reichel, Luke Haggerty (6) and Oliver Grupenhoff. W — Gaulack. L — Reichel.
BITTERROOT — Dylan Reed 2-3, Logan Lueck 1-4, Kadin Beller 0-3, Brad Schaff 1-2, Rees Lesoine 1-3, Pape 2-3, Chance Sage 0-3, Jade Chimo 0-0, Shane Thorsen 0-3, Bo Zeiler 2-3.
LIBBY — Reichel 2-3, Dylon Lane 1-3, Haggerty 1-3, Grupenhoff 1-2, Cameron Burkes 0-3, Ryan Huffman 0-3, Matt Willis 0-2, Erik Lauer 0-1, Brandon Sadewasser 0-1, Collin Johnson 0-2.
RBIs—Reed, Lueck, Beller, Schaff, Pape.
Game 2
Bitterroot Bucs 420 022 0 — 10 12 5
Libby 304 000 4 — 11 14 4
Chance Sage, Drew Mccoulley (3), Liam Leclure (7), Shane Thorsen (7) and Kevin Mcgee; Dylon Lane, Collin Johnson (3) and Oliver Grupenhoff, Lane. W — Johnson. L — Leclure.
BITTERROOT — Thorsen 2-4, Jake Finley 1-2, Noah Baney 2-3, Mcgee 2-3, Spencer Grooms 1-4, Dallas Whitfield 1-2, Sage 0-2, Mccoulley 2-3, Nate Binber 0-4, Leclure 1-3.
LIBBY — Cameron Burkes 4-4, Erik Lauer 1-1, Will Reichel 2-4, Luke Haggerty 0-0, Braydan Thom 0-4, Oliver Grupenhoff 1-3, Lane 2-4, Ryan Huffman 2-3, Quincy Grupenhoff 0-2, Johnson 0-5, Austin Marshall 2-3, Brandon Sadewasser 0-4.
RBIs—Baney (4), Grooms, Whitfield (2); Oliver Grupenhoff (2), Lane, Huffman (2), Marshall.