BASEBALL ROUNDUP: Glacier Twins A suffer pair of setbacks in Belgrade

BELGRADE — Alex McSmith broke a 5-5 tie in the bottom of the fourth inning and the Boise Gems pulled away for a 9-5 win Saturday night at the Boys of Summer Invitational.

Later in the night, the Belgrade Bandits held on to send the Twins to a second straight loss, 7-5.

In the first game, the Twins led 5-2 after a three-run top of the third inning and outhit the Gems 8-6, but Boise took advantage of four Glacier errors and held the Twins off the scoreboard over the final three innings.

Vinny Smith went 2 for 2 with a double and a triple, and A.J. Wetsch went 3 for 3 with a triple of his own in the loss. Jesse Walburn smacked a two-run double in the Glacier third.

Jake Randall went the distance for the Gems to earn the win.

In the nightcap, Belgrade broke a 4-4 deadlock with two runs in the fifth and survived a late Glacier comeback attempt. The Twins scored once in the bottom of the sixth and final inning and left the tying runs on base.

Tristin Steinwand went 2 for 2 with a double against the Bandits.

Glacier 023 000 — 5 8 4

Boise 023 220 — 9 6 3

Tyler Murphy, Skylar Warner (3), Terek Bistodeau (5) and Ryan Veneman. Jake Randall and Ryan Potter. W — Randall. L — Warner.

GLACIER — Colten Parker 0-4, Tristin Steinwand 0-3, James Sampson-Keck 1-3, Vinny Smith 2-2, Jesse Walburn 1-3, Max Smyley 1-3, Veneman 0-3, A.J. Wetsch 3-3, Murphy 0-2, Bistodeau 0-1.

BOISE — Will Satterfield 1-3, Jonah Halberg 2-4, Randall 0-1, Layton Wagner 0-2, Matt Stefanie 0-2, Alex McSmith 1-3, Connor Riddle 1-4, Potter 1-3, Dawson Zebarth 0-4.

2B — Walburn, Smith (G); Halberg (B). 3B — Smith, Wetsch (G); Halberg (B). RBIs — Wetsch 2, Smith, Walburn, Murphy (G); McSmith 2, Riddle 2, Halberg, Stefanie (B).

Belgrade 310 021 — 7 9 2

Glacier 310 001 — 5 8 1

A.J. Wetsch, Vinny Smith (3), Colten Parker (5), Derek Kastella (6) and Tyler Murphy. L — Smith.

GLACIER — Tom Hellwig 1-3, Tristin Steinwand 2-2, Terek Bistodeau 0-2, James Sampson-Keck 1-1, Skylar Warner 0-2, Jesse Walburn 2-3, Max Smyley 0-2, Wetsch 0-0, Smith 0-2, Kastella 1-3, Murphy 1-2, Jonny Sapa 0-2, Parker 0-1.

2B — Steinwand. RBIs — Steinwand, Sampson-Keck, Walburn, Kastella.

Belgrade stats not available.

Bucs, Rangers split twinbill

EUREKA — Kootenai Valley scored 11 times in the fourth inning to run away with a 14-3 victory in game one but the Bitterroot Bucs bounced back to take game two 4-3 in nine innings on Saturday afternoon.

Both games were scheduled for seven innings but neither finished in the seventh. The Rangers’ 11-run outburst ended the first game in the middle of the fifth because of the 10-run rule and Kootenai Valley stayed alive with a bottom of the seventh inning run in the nightcap only to see the Bucs win the game in the ninth.

Dawson Henrie was 6 for 8 at the plate on the day, including perfect 4 for 4 in game one. Henrie was also the winning pitcher in the opener.

Bitterroot 000 30 — 3 7 0

K. Valley 120 (11)x — 14 13 1

Brendan Bailey, Alec Wells (4) and Jacob Scully. Dawson Henrie, Connor Harmon (5) and James Dunn. W — Henrie. L — Bailey.

BITTERROOT — Bo Zeiler 0-2, Braxton McCullough 1-3, Jake Finley 0-2, Rees LeSoine 1-2, Liam LeCoure 0-1, Scully 1-2, Brendan Schneiter 2-2, Nathan Binder 2-2, Bailey 0-1, Wells 0-1.

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

2B — H. Dunn. 3B — Henrie. RBIs — LeSoine 2, Schneiter (B); Henrie 3, H. Dunn 2, Hannay 2, J. Dunn 2, Henderson, Anderson, Fornall, Harmon.

Bitterroot 100 020 001 — 4 9 2

K. Valley 000 200 100 — 3 6 3

Jake Scully, Rees LeSoine (5) and Bo Zeiler, Scully (5); Connor Harmon, Hank Dunn (6) and James Dunn. W — LeSoine. L — Dunn.

BITTERROOT — Zeiler 2-4, Braxton McCullough 2-4, Jake Finley 2-5, LeSoine 1-4, Liam LeCoure 0-5, Scully 0-3, Brendan Schneiter 1-3, Nathan Binder 1-4, Brenden Bailey 0-3.

KOOTENAI VALLEY — Dawson Henrie 2-4, H. Dunn 0-3, Sam Hannay 2-5, J. Dunn 1-4, Mo Henderson 0-2, Quade Anderson 1-3, Colton Cooper 0-4, Daymond Baney 0-3, Harmon 0-4.

2B — Finley (B); Henrie (KV). RBIs — McCullough 2, Finley, LeSoine (B); Hannay, J. Dunn, Anderson (KV).