Lakers split with Great Falls Chargers

The Daily Inter Lake

Great Falls’ Keeton Clark singled home two runs in the top of the sixth inning Sunday to break a 2-2 tie and help the Chargers defeat the Kalispell Lakers AA, 9-5 in the first game of an American Legion baseball doubleheader.

The Lakers claimed the second game, 6-1, to split the twinbill.

The Lakers fell despite outhitting Great Falls, 8-6.

Joseph Schlegel led Kalispell at the plate, batting 2-for-3.

It was Schlegel with the late inning heroics in the second game. The Lakers were up 2-1, but Schlegel’s RBI single sparked a four-run inning

Max Holden gave up one run on four hits with six strikeouts to record the win.

Schlegel again had multiple hits, batting 2-for-3.

Great Falls 9, Lakers AA 5

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Kalispell 001 013 0 5 8 3

WP — Fox Weymouth. LP — Kostya Hoffman.

Great Falls — Nate Fowler 1-4, Kellen Lawhon 1-4, Kael Richards 0-2, Tyler Marr 0-3, Trigg Mapes 0-3, Keeton Clark 1-4, Cam McNamee 2-3, Josey Hinderager 0-3, Ryan Hartum 1-2. 2B — Hartum. RBI — Mapes 1, Clark 2, McNamee 1, Hartum 2.

Kalispell — Ethan Diede 1-5, Gage Brink 1-2, Danny Kernan 1-3, Joseph Schegel 2-3, Ayden Driear 1-2, Carver Van Aken 1-2, Elijah Owens 0-4, Grady Drish 0-2, Kael Willis 1-1, Devon Wallack 0-3, Max Holden 0-1. 2B — Diede, Schlegel. RBI — Schlegel 1, Driear 2, Owens 1.

Lakers 6, Great Falls 1

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Kalispell 101 004 x 6 7 0

WP — Max Holden. LP — Kellen Lawhon. S — Danny Kernan

Great Falls — Nate Fowler 0-2, Keeton Clark 0-3, Kael Richards 1-2, Tyler Marr 2-3, Trigg Mapes 0-3, Josh Banderob 1-3, Ryan Hartum 0-3, Fox Weymouth 0-3, Hunter Houck 0-3. 2B — Marr, Banderob. RBI — Banderob.

Kalispell — Ethan Diede 0-2, Gage Brink 1-3, Kael Willis 1-3, Joseph Schlegel 2-3, Ayden Driear 1-3, Kostya Hoffman 0-3, Danny Kernan 1-3, Carver Van Aken 1-2, Devon Wallack 0-1. RBI — Willis 1, Schlegel 2, Driear 2.