Legion baseball: Loggers romp by Mariners B at Firecracker tourney
POLSON — Bryadan Thom and Collin Johnson were perfect at the plate while Dylon Lane drove in four runs as the Libby Loggers A crushed the Mission Valley Mariners B 23-3 on Saturday in second-day action at the Mission Valley Mariners Firecracker Baseball Tournament.
Thom was 5 for 5 hitting, scored four times and drove in three runs.
Johnson went 3 for 3, scored three times and had two RBIs.
Libby scored 14 runs in the top half of the third to put the contest away.
Lane and Seth Bateman shared mound duties and limited Mission Valley to a pair of singles.
Tournament action continues today.
Libby 50(14) 0 22 — 23 15 3
Mission Valley B 000 30 — 3 2 4
WP—Dylon Lane; LP—Bennet.
LIBBY — Seth Bateman 1-4, Lane 1-4, Brady Bateman 1-3, Erik Lauer 1-6, Tim Carvey 0-3, Shayne Walker 2-4, Tanner Schatz 0-0, Braydan Thom 5-5, Collin Johnson 3-3, Tanner Wood 0-1, Anthony Johnson 1-2.
MISSION VALLEY — Hales 0-1, Wisiewski 0-2, Burland 0-2, Davis 0-2, Fisher 1-1, Lake 1-2, Hoyt 0-1, Bennet 0-2, Gillingham 0-1, Donohue 0-1, Williams 0-1, Evertz 0-1, Dalby 0-2.
2B—Bateman, Thom; RBIs—S. Bateman (2), Lane (4), B. Bateman (3), Lauer, Carvey, Walker (2), Thom (3), C. Johnson (2), Wood, A. Johnson; Lake.
Deer Lodge 10,
Kootenai Valley 6
POLSON — Sam Hannay went 3 for 4 and scored twice, but it still wasn’t enough as the Deer Lodge Wranglers defeated the Kootenai Valley Rangers during second-day play at the Mission valley Mariners Firecracker Tournament.
Hannay sinlged in the third, fifth and seventh innings.
Deer Lodge, up 6-3 after six innings, scored four times in the top of the seventh to put the game out of reach. The Mariners did score three times in the bottom half of the seventh.
Dawson Henrie and Quade Anderson both doubled for Kootenai Valley.
Tournament play continues today.
Deer Lodge 201 102 4 — 10 9 8
Kootenai Valley 010 020 3 — 6 7 3
WP—Taylor Stone; LP—Mo Henderson.
DEER LODGE — Logan Danforth 2-3, Teegan Shafer 0-0, Derek Walker 1-4, Sheldon Danforth 1-1, Stone 2-4, Grayson Struble 0-0, Sean Mattice 1-4, Kaehl Lowery 0-3, Logan Beck 0-3, Tristan Therriault 0-0, Porter Struble 1-3, Michael Heisdorf 1-4.
KOOTENAI VALLEY — Connor Harmon 0-4, Colton Cooper 0-4, Dawson Henrie 1-4, Sam Hannay 3-4, Quade Anderson 1-4, Henderson 1-3, Brad Stein 1-2, Donovan Fornall 0-2, Daymond Baney 0-3.
2B—Stone; Henrie, Anderson; RBIs—Walker, S. Danforth, Stone (3); Harmon, Henderson, Fornall.
Late Friday
Lakers AA 8, Bandits 3
PULLMAN, Wash. — Andrew Schleusner doubled, tripled and scored three times to help the Kalispell Lakers AA defeat the Northwest Bandits on the second day of the Palouse Summer Series tournament at Washington State University.
Patrick O’Connell, 2 for 3, doubled, drove in two runs and scored twice.
Dawson Smith, 2 for 4, and Tiler Whiteaker, 2 for 4, also doubled for Kalispell.
The tournament concludes today.
The Lakers return to conference play Tuesday hosting Medicine Hat for a doubleheader beginning at 4 p.m.
R H E
Northwest 3 7 1
Kalispell 8 11 1
WP—Leif Ericksen; LP—Tilley.
NORTHWEST — Dardzinski 0-4, Gilligan 2-4, Jackson 2-3, Tilley 1-1, Lane 0-1, Foster 0-2, Krause 1-3, Atwood 0-2, Nickerson 1-3, Waite 0-3, Chamberlain 0-3.
KALIPSELL — Tiler Whiteaker 2-4, Andrew Schleusner 2-3, Patrick O’Connell 2-3, Ericksen 0-4, Joe Broughton 1-1, Jonas Nyman 1-2, Haydn Schlepp 0-2, Dawson Smith 2-4, Micah Benson 1-1, Jayson Combs 0-3.
2B—Jackson, Gilligan, Nickerson; O’Connell, Schleusner, Smith, Whiteaker; 3B—Schleusner; RBIs—Jackson, Nickerson; Whiteaker, Schleusner, O’Connell, Ericksen, Smith.