Twins win Ed Gallo tourney
WHITEFISH — The Glacier Twins A held off a late Calgary rally to win the Ed Gallo Memorial Wood Bat American Legion baseball tournament on Sunday at Memorial Field.
The Twins got on the board first with aggressive baserunning in the third inning. Gunner Marsh got on base with a single and immediately stole second and took third on an error on the throw. That was plenty to turn an infield hit from Terek Bistodeau into the first run of the game. With two outs in the inning, Bistodeau advanced to second on catchers indifference then scored on a hard ground ball through the infield from James Sampson-Keck to take a 2-0 lead.
That lead grew in the fifth when Sampson-Keck hit another hard shot to score Bistodeau and give the Twins a 3-0 lead.
Calgary rallied, loading the bases with no outs in the sixth inning before scoring on a sacrifice fly to left field.
The Twins weaseled out of that tough situation with only one run, but Calgary was able to get two runners on to start the seventh as well. Two short fly balls left the score unscathed but a hard hit single in the next at bat cut the Glacier lead to 3-2 and put the tying run on second.
However, Skyler Warner was able to get the final batter to fly out to center to preserve the victory and win the championship.
Sampson-Keck finished 3 for 3 from the plate with two RBIs to lead the Twins in the victory and Ryan Veneman pitched five scoreless innings on the mound with six strikeouts.
Glacier blasted the Kalispell B team 8-2 in the semifinals earlier in the day.
Glacier 002 010 0 — 3 9 3
Calgary 000 001 1 — 2 6 3
WP—Ryan Veneman. LP—Tecklenburg.
TWINS A — Terek Bistodeau 1-4, Tom Hellwig 1-4, James Sampson-Keck 3-3, Coby Clark-Dickenson 2-4, Ryan Veneman 0-4, Derek Kastella 1-3, Jack Schwaiger 0-3, Tyler Murphy 0-3, Gunner Marsh 1-3.
REDBIRDS A — Robins 1-4, Leavitt 1-3, Tecklenburg 1-3, Thompson 0-3, Wilson 1-4, Lawson 2-4, Taylor 0-3, Boyd 0-2, Will Shudra 0-2, Guay 0-0.
RBIs—Bistodeau, Sampson-Keck 2. Lawson, Taylor.
Kalispell 200 000 0 — 2 7 5
Glacier 061 100 x — 8 8 0
WP—Zach Veneman. LP—Jack Corriveau.
LAKERS B — Ben Corrveau 1-2, Luke Halland 1-3, Haydon Dillon 1-3, Ethan Diede 1-2, Wes Palmer 0-3, Colin Bowden 0-3, Thomas O’Connell 0-3, Conner Drish 2-2, Josh Anderson 1-3, Jack Corriveau 0-1.
TWINS A — Ryan Veneman 0-4, Tom Hellwig 0-2, Jack Schwaiger 1-4, Coby Clark-Dickenson 1-3, Derek Kastella 3-3, Tyler Murphy 0-2, Terek Bistodeau 2-4, Dan Seymour 0-2, Gunner Marsh 1-2.
2B—Diede. Bistodeau. RBIs—Halland, Diede. Bistodeau 2, Marsh, Murphy, Schwaiger 2.
Lakers A drop last game at Howard Rein
BELGRADE — The Kalispell Lakers A scored four runs in their last turn at the plate but couldn’t complete a comeback in an 8-7 loss to Livingston on Sunday.
The Lakers sored the first run of the game but fell behind in the fourth inning when the Braves put up four runs to take a 5-1 lead.
Kalispell chipped away at that lead, scoring twice in the fifth, but Livingston pushed its advantage back out to 8-3 with three outs remaining. The Lakers reached their first five batters to the plate in the bottom of the seventh, scoring a pair of runs on a Brandon Jordan double. Kalispell scored two more runs, once on a bases-loaded walk and another on a sac fly to center field. The tying run was on third base with the winning run on first, but a strikeout finished the game on the next at bat.
Jonathan Craver was 2 for 4 at the plate to lead the Lakers.
The Billings Halos beat the Helena Reps 13-12 to win the tournament title.
Livingston 010 401 2 — 8 10 4
Kalispell 100 020 4 — 7 5 0
WP—Ethan Bullock. LP—Taylor Morton.
LIVINGSTON — Brock Peterson 0-3, Zander Petrich 0-4, Buck Spallone 1-3, Sage McMinn 1-2, Clayton Buxby 2-3, Bryce Dorvall 3-4, Ethan Bullock 0-2, Chasyn Campbell 2-3, Warren Hanson 1-2.
LAKERS A — Tyler Kitch 0-1, Brandon Jordan 1-4, Taylor Morton 1-5, Nate Vanderbeek 0-1, Logan Siblerud 0-2, Jonathan Craver 2-4, Evan Todd 1-3, Grant Marsh 0-3, Brian Olson 0-2, Nate Kelly 0-2.
2B—Jordan. RBIs—Hanson. Kitch, Jordan 2, Craver 2, Todd, Olson.
Bucs no-hit Libby at Big Bucks
LIBBY — Bitteroot’s Marcus Zeiler no-hit the Libby Loggers to lift the Bucs to a third-place finish at the Big Bucks Tournament on Sunday.
The Bucs junior was backed up by a strong defensive effort with just two strikeouts in the game. Two walks and a hit batter prevented the perfect game.
Bitterroot scored a run in the bottom of the first inning, enough to carry the team for the rest of the game, but continued to pile on late, scoring twice in both the third and fourth innings and three runs in the fifth inning to end the game early.
Libby 000 00 — 0 0 5
Bitterroot 102 23 — 8 8 0
WP—Marcus Zeiler. LP—Moxley Roesler-Begalke.
LIBBY—Tim Carvey 0-1, Jesse Dunham 0-0, Shayne Walker 0-2, Alex Svendsbye 0-2, Braydan Thom 0-1, Raul Rodriguez 0-2, Moxley Roesler-Begalke 0-2, Chris Auge 0-2, Trey Thompson.
BUCS — Marcus Zeiler 2-4, Jessie Sage 0-0, Braxton McCullough 3-4, Jake Finley 0-2, Liam LeCoure 0-3, Colby Kohlman 1-3, Brendan Schneiter 0-3, Alex Gavlak 2-3, Jake Scully 0-0, Brendan Bailey 0-1, Jon Lineback 0-2.
RBIs—McCullough 3, Finley 2, Kohlman 2.