BASEBALL: Lakers A pitch way to sweep of Rangers
EUREKA — Sam Elliott and Drew Scherrer twirled a pair of complete games and the Kalispell Lakers A swept a pair of games 5-2 and 4-1 against the Kootenai Valley Rangers on Wednesday night.
Elliott struck out 10 in a three-hitter in Game 1, allowing single runs in the third and fourth innings to earn the victory.
The Lakers had only four hits in the opener but pushed three runs across in the fourth inning and added two more in the seventh.
Randy Stultz doubled to start Kalispell’s three-run fourth and scored the tying run on an Eric Seaman sacrifice fly. Three batters later, Clayton Jaques delivered a two-out, two-run single to push the last two runs across.
Stultz and Jaques each tallied two hits in the first game.
In the nightcap, Scherrer was tagged for just a single run and surrendered only two hits. He struck out nine in the victory against only one walk.
The Lakers fell behind 1-0 but turned things around in the fourth. Seaman started the inning with a walk, stole second and scored on a Nathan Vanderbeek single to tie the game. Vanderbeek scored the go-ahead run later in the inning on a Brady Peiffer base hit.
Kalispell pounded out 10 hits in the Game 2 win, with Randy Symmes, and Elliott each singling twice. Peiffer drove in two runs.
Kalispell 000 300 2 — 5 4 2
K. Valley 001 100 0 — 2 3 2
Sam Elliott and Clayton Jaques. Sam Hannay and James Dunn. W — Elliott. L — Hannay.
KALISPELL — Ryan Symmes 0-4, Randy Stultz 2-4, Keaden Morisaki 0-3, Eric Seaman 0-2, Jaycob Serrano 0-2, Elliott 0-2, Jaques 2-3, Brady Peiffer 0-2, Tyler Kitch 0-3.
KOOTENAI VALLEY — Dawson Henrie 0-3, Colton Cooper 0-3, Hannay 0-2, J. Dunn 0-3, Quade Anderson 0-3, Hank Dunn 1-3, Mo Henderson 0-3, Donovan Fornall 1-2, Connor Harmon 1-3.
2B — Stultz; Harmon. RBIs — Jaques 2, Symmes, Seaman; H. Dunn, Harmon.
Kalispell 000 201 1 — 4 10 2
K. Valley 100 000 0 — 1 2 1
Drew Scherrer and Keaden Morisaki. Dawson Henrie, Connor Harmon (7) and James Dunn. W — Scherrer. L — Henrie.
KALISPELL — Ryan Symmes 2-4, Randy Stultz 1-2, Morisaki 1-4, Eric Seaman 1-2, Nathan Vanderbeek 1-3, Adam Joy 1-1, Sam Elliott 2-3, Jaryon Venturini 0-3, Brady Peiffer 1-3, Tyler Kitch 0-3.
KOOTENAI VALLEY — Henrie 1-3, Colton Cooper 0-3, Sam Hannay 0-3, J. Dunn 0-2, Quade Anderson 0-3, Hank Dunn 1-3, Mo Henderson 0-3, Chet McCully 0-3, Harmon 0-2.
3B — Henrie. RBIs — Peiffer 2, Seaman, Vanderbeek; Hannay.
Mariners swept in Bitterroot
HAMILTON — The Bitterroot Red Sox put up double-digit runs in both halves of a doubleheader, routing the Mission Valley Mariners A 12-1 and 11-4.
The Red Sox ended the first game after just four and a half innings by way of the 10-run rule, scoring seven times in the third inning to pull away. In Game 2, Bitterroot answered a four-run Mariners third with four of their own in the bottom of the inning and never looked back.
Anthony Jones and Jacob Harrod each had two hits in the second game to lead Mission Valley.
Jonathan Ringer went 5 for 6 during the two games to lead the way for the Red Sox.
M. Valley 010 00 — 1 2 7
Bitterroot 327 0x — 12 11 0
Micah McClure, Brendan Blood (3) and Warren Wood. Jonathan Ringer and Austin Ray. W — Ringer. L — McClure.
MISSION VALLEY — Anthony Jones 0-2, Karsen Krebs 0-1, Jacob Harrod 0-3, Walter Wood 1-2, Bransen Krebs 0-2, War. Wood 0-2, Kade Schutzmann 0-1, McClure 1-1, Blood 0-0, Nyqolas Gillingham 0-2, Tyson Petticrew 0-1.
BITTERROOT — Ray 2-3, Nathan Loranger 1-2, Tylor Nixon 2-4, Ringer 2-3, Justin Horvath 1-3, Joe Johnson 2-2, Kyle Norman 1-3, Hunter Omlid 0-2, Tanner Goligoski 0-2.
2B — McClure; Johnson, Ringer. RBIs — McClure; Ringer 2, Johnson 2, Ray, Loranger, Nixon, Horvath, Goligoski.
M. Valley 004 000 0 — 4 6 4
Bitterroot 204 302 x — 11 9 4
Tyson Petticrew and Warren Wood. Ladd Grenfell and Austin Ray. W — Grenfell. L — Petticrew.
MISSION VALLEY — Anthony Jones 2-4, Jacob Harrod 2-3, Bransen Krebs 0-4, Wood 1-3, Micah McClure 0-4, Kade Schutzmann 1-4, Nyqolas Gillingham 0-4, Tyler Kelsch 0-1, Brendan Blood 0-3.
BITTERROOT — Ray 0-4, Nathan Loranger 0-2, Tylor Nixon 1-1, Jonathan Ringer 3-3, Justin Horvath 1-3, Joe Johnson 1-3, Kyle Crossman 1-1, Kyle Norman 1-3, Chase Conner 0-2, Kade Hudgins 1-3.
2B — Harrod; Nixon, Horvath, Ringer. RBIs — Krebs, Wood, Schutzmann, Gillingham; Horvath 4, Ringer 2, Johnson 2, Nixon, Norman.