Twins beat Cranbrook in walkover, 13-3
WHITEFISH — The Glacier Twins managed just four hits, but didn’t need any to score nine first-inning runs in a 13-3 Legion baseball win over Cranbrook, B.C. on Saturday.
Eight walks, four hit batsmen and one error did the damage to the Bandits. Mason Peters walked twice and scored twice in the frame.
Mikey Glass, Josiah Ruther and Talon Murphy combined to allow just four Cranbrook hits. Glass and Ruther each struck out four in two innings of work.
Hayden Meehan’s two-run single sparked a 3-run fifth inning that ended the game under the mercy rule.
The Bandits — Canadian teams currently play all their Legion games in the United States because of Covid-19 rules — walked no one after the first inning, but hit four more Twins with pitches.
Kellen Kroger scored three times for Glacier, and Meehan finished with three RBIs. The Twins stay home to face Mission Valley Wednesday, at 6:30 p.m.
A Lakers sweep Chargers
GREAT FALLS — Adam Nikunen’s two stolen bases sparked a 3-run third inning Saturday, leading the Kalispell A Lakers over Great Falls 7-3, and a sweep of a Class A doubleheader.
Nikunen was hit by a pitch, stole second and third and scored on Joey Thatcher’s single. Oskar Kallis followed with an RBI triple and came home on Michael Owens’ single to give the Lakers a 4-1 lead that held up.
Joey Thatcher and Kallis each had two hits to back the pitching of James Moody and Brysen Herion. Herion threw shutout ball over 4 ⅔ innings. He allowed no hits and four walks.
Easton Casper had a triple and scored twice for Kalispell.
The Lakers won the first game 18-12, getting three hits — including another triple — and four RBIs from Kallis and surviving six errors and seven walks issued.
Nikunen had three hits and scored three times from his lead off spot. TJ Hayek doubled and drove in two runs. Herion drove in two. Kaden Drish had two hits and scored three runs, and Thatcher and Moody also had two hits, with Moody clubbing a triple.
Kalispell plays the A Missoula Mavericks Sunday, a doubleheader at Griffin Field at 1 p.m.
Mariners fall to A Mavericks
POLSON — Donovan Headswift hit a home run and Missoula’s A Mavericks took advantage of 12 walks issued by Mission Valley pitching to score a 15-11 Legion win.
Headswift, Owen McGuinn and Finn Davis all drove in three runs for the Mavericks, who led 15-8 after four innings.
The Mariners (1-1) got two home runs and four RBIs from Espn Fisher, and Dawson DuMont also homered and drove in four for the Mariners, who outhit Missoula 15-11.
Dylan Davis had four hits for Mission Valley, while Keyen Nash, Xavier Fisher, Alex Muzquiz and DuMont had two hits. Espn Fisher had three hits; Xavier Fisher and DuMonta scored three times each.
Each team used three pitchers, with the Mariners’ Aiden Gfroerer having the best line: three innings, two hits, three walks, no runs allowed and no strikeouts.