District Legion baseball tourney: Twins clobber Bitterroot Bucs

POLSON — Vinnie Smith drove in five runs while Colten Parker and Tyler Murphy had four each as the Glacier Twins whipped the Bitterroot Bucs 24-10 on Friday in second-round action at the Western A District American Legion baseball tournament.

Smith went 2 for 2, Murphy was 3 for 3 and Parker finished 1 for 3.

Glacier belted 16 hits. Murphy, Tristin Steinwand and AJ Wetsch each doubled once.

Glacier opened with a 12-run first inning and piled on six more in the second.

Both teams were victors on Thursday in first-round action.

Bitterroot Bucs 200 260 0 — 10 12 2

Glacier Twins (12)60 024 X — 24 16 5

WP—Johnny Sapa; LP—Chance Sage.

BITTERROOT — Shane Thorsen 2-5, Marcus Zeiler 0-1, Drue McCawley 1-2, Bo Zieler 2-5, Rees Lesoine 2-5, Chance Sage 0-4, Jade Chimo 2-4, Jake Finley 1-4, Braxten McCullough 1-3, Dylan Gavlak 1-3.

GLACIER — Colten Parker 1-3, Kyler Howke 1-4, Jayce Fagerland 1-3, Vinnie Smith 2-2, Sapa 0-1, Austin Robbins 1-1, Jesse Walburn 1-3, Tristin Steinwand 2-3, James Sampson-Keck 2-4, Tyler Murphy 3-3, AJ Wetsch 2-4.

2B—Lesoine, Chimo, McCawley; Murphy, Steinwand, Wetsch; RBI—Thorsen (3), McCawley (2), Zeiler, Chimo (3); Parker (4), Howke (2), Fagerland, Smith (5), Walburn, Steinwand (2), Sampson-Keck (2), Murphy (4).

Red Sox 7, Mavs 2

POLSON — Two three-run innings carried the Bitterroot Red Sox to a victory over the Missoula Mavs.

The Red Sox scored three times in the fourth and eighth innings to put the game ouit of reach.

Joe Johnson, 2 for 3, had four RBI for the victors.

Missoula 000 000 020 — 2 8 0

Bitterroot 010 300 03x — 7 8 0

WP—Zach Ringer; LP—Ryan McHugh.

MISSOULA — Hunter Paulson 1-4, Davis Walker 1-3, Spencer Schock 2-3, Kyle Pollack 1-4, Ryan McHugh 0-4, Koty Rehban 0-4, James Martin 0-3, Will Larson 0-1, Dylan Barkley 1-4, Jaeren Graham 2-3.

BITTERROOT — Jonathan Ringer 0-3, Nate Loranger 1-2, Tylor Nixon 0-4, Zach Ringer 2-4, Kody Lane 2-3, Justin Horvath 0-3, Joe Johnson 2-3, Austin Ray 1-4, Kyle Norman 0-2, Tyler Scheffer 0-0, Brennan Fisher 0-1.

2B—Walker, Schock; Lane, Johnson; RBI—Walker, Pollack; Horvath, Johnson (4), Ray.

Loser-out Games

Loggers 13, Rangers 0

POLSON — The Loggers kept their postseason run alive with a victory over the Kootenai Valley Rangers.

Oliver Grupenhoff had three of Libby’s 14 hits, finishing 3 for 3 with two doubles and three RBIs.

Trace Tamarro, who gave up just four hits in all seven-innings on the mound, went 3 for 5 at the plate and drove in a game-high four RBIs.

Dawson Henrie, Timmy Carvey, Sam Hanna and Brad Stein had base hits for the Rangers.

Libby 202 313 2 — 13 14 1

Kootenai Valley 000 000 0 — 0 4 4

WP — Trace Tamarro. LP — CJ Henrie.

LIBBY — Collin Johnson 1-4, Luke Haggerty 2-4, Jared Winslow 2-3, Oliver Grupenhoff 3-3, Trace Tamarro 3-5, Erik Lauer 0-5, Bryadan Thom 1-5, Taylor Wisdom 1-4, Mason Chapel 1-4.

KOOTENAI VALLEY — CJ Henrie 0-4, Dawson Henrie 1-3, Timmy Carvey 1-3, Garret McNeil 0-3, James Dunn 0-3, Sam Hanna 1-3, Jacob Nowakowski 0-2, Brad Stein 1-3, Connor Harmon 0-2.

2B — Grupenhoff (2), Wisdom. RBIs — Haggerty, Grupenhoff (3), Tamarro (4), Braydan Thom (2).

Mariners 11, Lakers 10

POLSON — Mission Valley Mariners scored five runs in the bottom of the ninth inning to rally by the Kalispell Lakers.

Kalispell trailed 6-3 after six innings, but scored once in the seventh and three times in the eighth and ninth for a 10-6 lead.

Bransen Krebs went 3 for 4 and drove in three runs for the Mariners. AJ Jones and Kade Schutzmann both had two hits.

Gunnar Marsh, 2 for 5, had four RBI for the Lakers.

Leadoff hitter Haydn Schlepp went 3 for 5 and Eric Seaman was 2 for 5.

Both teams had 11 hits.

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Mission Valley 001 041 005 — 11 11 7

WP—Tyson Petticrew; LP—Keaden Morisaki.

KALISPELL — Haydn Schlepp 3-5, Gunnar Marsh 2-5, Spencer Pisk 1-4, Torin Bowden 1-5, Eric Seaman 2-5, Jonas Nyman 0-4, Dawson Smith 1-5, Jaycob Serrano 1-4, Morisaki 0-5.

MISSION VALLEY — Derek Peel 1-4, Jacob Harrod 1-3, Bransen Krebs 3-4, Micah McClure 0-4, AJ Jones 2-5, Nyqolas Gillingham 0-2, Walter Wood 0-4, Justin Young 0-3, Petticrew 1-1, Warren Wood 1-1, Kade Schutzmann 2-5.

2B—Schlepp, Smith; Krebs, Schutzmann; 3B—War. Wood; RBI—Schlepp, Marsh (4), Pisk, Nyman, Serrano, Morisaki; Harrod, Krebs (3), Wal. Wood (2), War. Wood (3), Schutzmann.