Legion baseball: Lakers AA roll over Rangers A

by The Daily Inter Lake
| April 18, 2016 11:10 PM

The Kalispell Lakers AA scored in every inning but the first to whip the Kootenai Valley Rangers A 21-4 on Monday night in American Legion baseball action at Griffin Field.

The Lakers had three big innings, scoring six times in the second, five in the fifth and seventh in the sixth.

Joe Broughton, 2 for 4, drove in six runs for the Lakers (4-1 overall).

Spencer Pisk, 4 for 5, had two RBIs along with Leif Ericksen, Andrew Schleusner and Eric Seaman.

Schleusner, Micah Benson and Ericksen all had doubles. Broughton tripled.

Donovan Fornall doubled for Kootenai Valley.

Kalispell pitchers Benson, Clay Prosser and Schleusner combined on a 2-hitter. Benson fanned five batters in his three innings on the mound.

The Lakers continued with nonconference on Saturday hosting Belgrade for a doubleheader beginning at 1 p.m.

Kootenai Valley 000 301 0 — 4 2 6

Kalispell 062 157 x — 21 12 1

WP—Micah Benson; LP—James Dunn.

KOOTENAI VALLEY — Connor Harmon 0-4, Hank Dunn 0-3, Dawson Henrie 0-2, Sam Hannay 0-0, Mo Henderson 1-3, Quade Anderson 0-3, Donovan Fornall 1-3, Daymond Bainey 0-3, Colton Cooper 0-3.

KALISPELL — Haydn Schlepp 1-3, Spencer Pisk 4-5, Joe Broughton 2-4, Patrick O’Connell 0-5, Leif Ericksen 1-4, Dawson Smith 0-1, Benson 1-3, Jayson Combs 0-1, Andrews Schleusner 1-2, Eric Seaman 2-4, Clay Prosser 0-2, Logan DeCock 0-0.

2B—Fornall; Schleusner, Benson, Ericksen; 3B—Broughton; RBIs—Henderson (2); Schlepp, Pisk (2), Broughton (6), Ericksen (2), Schleusner (2), Seaman (2), DeCock.