SOFTBALL ROUNDUP: Glacier blanks Hellgate; Libby, Eureka roll to wins

by The Daily Inter Lake
| May 7, 2016 11:15 PM

MISSOULA — Glacier used home runs and another dominating performance by its all-state pitcher to blank Missoula Hellgate 10-0 in five innings on Saturday in a Western AA softball contest.

Glacier’s Ali Williams held Hellgate to a single in the bottom of the fifth inning. She had 11 strikeouts.

Williams also homered twice, a solo shot to left center in the second inning and a two-run blast in the third to raise her season total to 10.

Christine Connolly homered to left center with the bases loaded in the first inning to get the Wolfpack off to a fast start. She also doubled.

It was Connolly’s second HR of the season.

Serra Monroe, 2 for 3, also doubled for Glacier.

Connolly had four RBIs, Williams three and Monroe two.

Glacier thumped Hellgate earlier in the season 8-0.

“I think, offensively, it was nice to see our kids come out and hit the ball,” Glacier coach Andy Fors said.

Glacier hosts Butte on Tuesday for a doubleheader starting at 2:30 p.m. and wraps up regular-season action on Thursday with a doubleheader with Flathead starting at 3 p.m. at Kidsports Complex.

Glacier 415 00 — 10 11 0

Hellgate 000 00 — 0 1 3

Ali Williams and Christine Connolly. Callie McKillop and Sierrah Hardy. W – Williams. L – McKillop.

GLACIER – Williams 2-3, Christina Dufour 1-2, Erin McHugh 1-2, Alivia Atlee 1-3, Emma Shew 0-1, Madison Johnson 0-1, Connolly 2-3, Kali Gulick 0-1, Sarah Frandsen 1-2, Laura Brazda 1-1, Serra Monroe 2-3, Meg Hornby 0-2, Sarah Stern 0-2.

HELLGATE – Adessa Gagner 0-2, McKillop 0-2, Hardy 0-2, Korey Waletzko 0-2, Maiti Anderson 1-2, Elise Marquardt 0-2, Natasha Crepeau 0-2, Dusty Calouri 0-1, Kathleen Packard 0-1.

2B – Connolly, Monroe. HR – Connolly, Williams (2). RBIs – Williams (3), Connolly (4), Monroe (2).

Libby 13, Thompson Falls 1

LIBBY — Taryne Luscher, 2 for 4, led off the fifth inning with a solo home run to center field and Haylee Cannon, 3 for 3, belted a three-run shot in the fifth to end the Western B-C contest for Libby on the 10-run rule.

It was the first home runs of the season for both girls.

Cannon, who also doubled, finished with five RBIs.

Luscher drove in three runs.

Khalyn Hageness gave up five singles and struck out nine batters to pick up the victory in the circle.

Libby (10-7 overall, 6-3 league) scored in every inning.

The Loggers closed with four runs in the fourth inning and six in fifth.

Libby has five games on its schedule this week — Tuesday at Troy, Thursday at home with Florence and a single game on Friday and two games on Saturday at the Butte Central tournament.

Thompson Falls 000 01 — 1 5 2

Libby 111 46 — 13 11 1

Haley Wilson and Haley Morgan; Khalyn Hageness and Sammee Bradeen. W — Hageness. L — Wilson.

THOMPSON FALLS — Maya Stiles 1-3, Megan McKenzie 2-3, Tamara Brubaker 0-3, Wilson 0-1, Lexy Van Elswick 0-2, Morgan 1-2, Jonnilee Seeman 0-2, Dylan Barrera 1-2, Shasklynn Townsend 0-2.

LIBBY — Alyssa Marshall 3-4, Hageness 0-2, Linsey Walker 0-2, Ashley Walker 1-2, Haylee Cannon 3-3, Taryne Luscher 2-4, Bradeen 0-2, Samantha Miller 0-0, Emily Carvey 2-3, Bailie Rosling 0-1, Kyra Lauer 0-2.

2B—Cannon, Carvey, Marshall; HRs—Luscher, Cannon; RBIs—Luscher (3), Cannon (5), Hageness, Marshall (2), A. Walker.

Eureka 4, Drummond 3 | Eureka 27, Drummond 8

EUREKA — Courtney Lemer turned in a monster game in the 27-9 victory over Drummond.

The senior homered, doubled and singled in four trips to the plate and drove in seven runs.

She also went the distance in the circle, holding Drummond to six hits. She struck out two and walked five batters.

Sophomore Bailey Bishop, 3 for 5, doubled twice and drove in three runs.

Sophomore Sarah Hepner, 2 for 4, had four RBIs.

Eureka led 4-0 after five innings in the other contest to hold on for the win.

Drummond scored three runs in the top of the seventh.

Drummond 000 000 3 — 3 8 3

Eureka 001 120 x — 4 3 3

WP—Laura Williams; LP—Allie Parke.

DRUMMOND — Makenzie Alder 1-3, Danica Batson 1-4, Kristen Piippo 1-3, Parke 1-4, Ashley Picton 1-3, Emilee Steinberg 1-4, Emily Cartmill 1-4, M. Guldbrant 1-4, M. Cartmill 0-3.

EUREKA — Aiyana Twigg 0-1, Serena Marquardt 0-2, Ambryn Smith 0-1, Courtney Lemer 1-2, Rylee Morgan 0-3, Bailey Bishop 0-1, Shyann Ferguson 0-2, Williams 1-3, Makennah Apeland 0-3, Sarah Hepner 1-3.

RBI—Steinberg, Cartmill; Morgan.

Eureka 973 8 — 27 14 3

Drummond 224 0 — 8 6 4

WP—Lemer; LP—Alder.

EUREKA — Smith 1-4, Lemer 3-4, Morgan 2-5, Bishop 3-5, Ferguson 1-3, Williams 1-2, Apeland 1-3, Hepner 2-4, Marquardt 0-0, Myllena Silva 0-1.

DRUMMOND — Alder 1-1, Batson 0-3, Piippo 2-3, A. Parke 0-1, Jarrell 0-0, Picton 1-3, Emily Cartmill 0-2, Steinberg 0-2, K. Greenwood 0-1, M. Cartmill 0-1, Guldbrant 1-1, M. Parke 1-1.

2B—Lemer, Bishop (2); 3B—Picton; HR—Lemer; RBIs—Smith (2), Lemer (7), Morgan (2), Bishop (3), Ferguson, Williams, Hepner (4), Silva (2); Alder, Picton, Steinberg, M. Parke.