C-Falls softball claims 2 big wins in Lewistown

LEWISTOWN — Maddie Moultrey, Haden Peters and Sydney Mann combined for six hits and eight runs batted in — and a five-inning 4-hitter — as Columbia Falls downed Lewistown 21-3 at the Lewistown Invitational softball tournament Friday.

The win capped a 2-0 day for the Kats, who beat Livingston 15-3 in another game shortened by the mercy rule.

Against Lewistown, Columbia Falls (4-1) had 10 players combine for 21 hits, with eight of them hitting doubles.

Three of them hit homers as well: Maddy Collins hit a 2-run bomb and Mann followed with solo shot to cap the Wildkats’ 11-run second inning; Aspen Dawson hit a 3-run shot in the top of the third inning to put her team up 16-0.

Mann was a single shy of hitting for the cycle and drove in four runs; Haylee Lawrence had four hits and Dawson and Maddy Collins had three hits each. All four players scored three runs.

C-Falls 2(11)3 14 - 21 21 2

Lewistown 002 10 - 3 4 2

Maddie Moultray, Haden Peters (3), Sydney Mann (5) and Demye Rensel. Karolyne Southworth, Chelsea Jensen (5) and Eliazar Southard.

COLUMBIA FALLS — Mann 3-5, Haylee Lawrence 4-5, Peters 2-5, Moultray 1-2, Annika Reid 0-1, Abbie Darsow 1-4, Aspen Dawson 3-4, Rensel 1-1, Tayler Lingle 1-2, Kyrah Trenkle 2-3, Maddy Collins 3-3.

LEWISTOWN — K Foran 0-2, S Sanner 1-3, E Southard 0-2, K Southworth 1-1, E Morris 0-1, No. 20 0-1, A Gremaux 1-2, R Comes 0-1, M Denton 1-1, No. 7 0-1, K Jensen 0-2.

2B — Mann, Collins, Darsaw, Dawson, Lawrence, Moultrey, Peters, Trenkle. 3B — Mann. HR — Mann, Dawson, Trenkle, Southworth. RBIs — Mann 4, Dawson 4, Peters 3, Trenkle 3, Lawrence 2, Darsow 2, Collins, Moultray, Southworth 2.

C-Falls 15, Livingston 3

Lawrence had four hits in this game as well, including a double, and she scored three runs and drove in two.

Columbia Falls sent 13 hitters to the plate in the third inning, scoring nine runs: Lawrence and Peters each had two hits in the inning, and Peters’ 2-run single made it 9-1.

After the Rangers scored twice in the top of the fourth, Demye Rensel hit a 3-run homer to spark a 5-run fourth inning for the Kats that ended the game.

Mann, Trenkle and Rensel all scored twice, and Rensel drove in four runs. Mann and Peters split the pitching, combining to allow two hits and five walks. Each pitcher fanned two.

The tournament concludes Saturday.

Livingston 100 2 - 3 2 3

C-Falls 109 5 - 15 15 2

Ava Malone, Kenna Benzel (4) and Marissa Taylor. Mann, Peters (4) and Rensel.

LIVINGSTON — Shannon Nelson 0-1, Taylor Young 1-3, Marissa Taylor 0-2, Malone 0-2, Benzel 1-2, Emily Jesson 0-2, Maddy Johnson 0-1, Kaylee Roberts 0-1, Erika Haines 0-0, Emily Prather 0-1.

COLUMBIA FALLS — Mann 1-2, Lingle 1-1, Lawrence 4-4, Peters 3-4, Moultray 2-3, Reid 0-1, Darsow 0-2, Dawson 2-3, Trenkle 1-2, Rensel 1-2, Collins 0-3.

2B — Dawson, Lawrence, Lingle, Moultray. HR — Rensel. RBIs—Rensel 4, Peters 3, Lawrence 2, Moultrey 2, Trenkle, Mann.