Holden, Kernan lead AA Lakers over I. Falls

BELGRADE — Max Holden threw five shutout innings and Danny Kernan drove in four runs in the Kalispell AA Lakers’ 11-0 win over Idaho Falls in American Legion baseball Saturday.

Kalispell (15-3) is playing in the Belgrade Quad Series; the Lakers were up on the Belgrade Bandits 4-0 at press time Saturday.

Holden allowed just two hits and walked no one for the Lakers. He struck out five. Kernan had a double and a triple among his three hits.

Ethan Diede got the Lakers on the board with a two-out RBI single in the second inning.

Kernan’s 2-run triple keyed a big third inning, when Kalispell struck for six runs, Grady Drish had a bases-loaded squeeze bunt later in the frame, before Idaho Falls issued a walk sandwiched between two hit batters to help the Lakers to a 7-0 lead.

Elijah Owens added an RBI single in the fourth and Kernan’s 2-run double in the fifth ended the game under the mercy rule.

Idaho Falls 000 00 - 0 2 1

Lakers AA 016 13 - 11 7 2

H Peterson, R Stocking (5) and D Ferguson, J Freeman (4). Max Holden and Grady Drish.

IDAHO FALLS — B. Prince 0-3, C Chastern 0-2, C Jorgenson -2, H Peterson 0-2, J Freeman 0-2, T McCubben 0-2, Stocking 1-2, Ferguson 0-1 , J Bastell 1-2.

LAKERS AA — Ethan Diede 2-2, Gage Brink 0-2, Joseph Schlegel 0-1, Caleb Morgan 0-0, Ayden Driear 0-2, Kostya hoffman 0-2, Danny Kernan 3-4, Carver Van Aken 1-1, Owen Schilling 0-0, Elijah Owens 1-2, Drish 0-2.

2B — Kernan. 3B — Kernan. RBI — Kernan 4, Diede 2, Morgan, Driear, Owens.