AA Lakers down A Loggers, 21-3
Kalispell Lakers AA catcher Kael Willis (12) applies the tag to nab Libby's Caden Williams (9) at the plate in the first inning at Griffin Field on Wednesday. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Kalispell Lakers AA's Ethan Diede (13) gets congratulated after scoring a run against the Libby Loggers A at Griffin Field on Wednesday. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Kalispell Lakers AA's Elijah Owens (17) strokes an RBI single against the Libby Loggers A at Griffin Field on Wednesday. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Kalispell Lakers AA starting pitcher Joe Schlegel works against the Libby Loggers A at Griffin Field on Wednesday. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Danny Kernan drove in four runs, including a two-run home run, and the AA Kalispell Lakers scored a 21-3 win over the A Libby Loggers in American Legion action at Griffin Field Wednesday.
Kernan’s homer came in the midst of a sixth-run fourth inning for the Lakers, who also had an eight-run third.
Gabe Brink tripled in one run and scored on Kernan’s sacrifice fly in the second; Kernan was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded during the Laker’s four-run first.
AJ Wood and Elijah Owens each drove in three runs for Kalispell; Kernan, Cade Morgan and Brink each scored three times. Kernan also threw the seventh inning on the hill.
Ayden Driear, the second of three Lakers pitchers, got the win with three innings of two-hit relief. He walked none — the Lakers issued no walks, though they hit two Loggers with pitches — and struck out three.
Aydan Williamson had Libby’s lone RBI. Hunter Hoover and Tripp Zhang each had two hits for the Loggers.
Libby 102 000 0 - 3 7 5
Lakers AA 428 610 x - 21 13 2
Zane Brown, Hunter Hoover (1), Tucker Masters (2), Aydan Williamson (4), Tripp Zhang (5) and Zhang, Brown (3).
Joseph Schlegel, Ayden Driear (4), Danny Kernan (7) and
LIBBY A — Zhang 2-4, Masters 1-3, Caden Williams 1-2, Aydan Williamson 0-3, Hoover 2-3, Landon Haddock 1-3, Kiye Jenkins 0-3, Brown 0-3, Dylan Buckner 0-3.
KALISPELL LAKERS AA — Ethan Diede 2-2, AJ Wood 2-2, Gage Brink 2-5, Kael Willis 0-2, Kostya Hoffman 0-5, Kernan 2-3, Caleb Morgan 1-4, Elijah Owens 1-3, Max Holden 1-3, Devon Wallack 1-2.
2B — Zhang 2, Hoover, Diede. 3B — Brink. HR — Kernan. RBI — Williamson, Kernan 4, Wood 3, Owens 3, Brink 2, Hoffman 2, Diede, Willis, Morgan, Wallack.