Pioneer League: Riders fall 10-7 Friday

BILLINGS — The Glacier Range Riders took a 3-0 lead Friday, then made up a three-run deficit but in the end fell 10-7 to the Billings Mustangs in Pioneer League baseball.

Livingston Morris got the Range Riders (5-11 this half) off to a fine start, clubbing a three-run homer, his 10th, in the second inning. By the fifth, though, the visitors trailed 6-3 with the Mustangs (8-8) scoring three unearned runs thanks in part to two Glacier errors.

Jalen Garcia’s RBI triple had Billings up 7-4 going to the seventh, which is where Morris added a two-out RBI single to score Ryan Cash, who’d walked.

Ryan Cole followed with a grounder to third that was thrown away for an error, and that scored two runs to knot it at 7-all.

Billings got those runs right back: Abraham Mow hit a three-run homer to left off reliever Isaiah Henry to put the Mustangs ahead for good.

Sam Linscott and Cole had two hits each for the Range Riders, who went 1-3 on their trip to Billings. Both teams came to Flathead Field Saturday for a short two-game set; Sunday’s game is at 1:05 p.m.

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Andrew Stout, Drew Holweger (4), Isaiah Henry (7), Austin Steinfort (8) and Austin Bates. Elijah Gill, Foster Pace (6), Hunter DePrimo (7) and Brian Parreira. W — DePrimo (2-1). L — Henry (0-3).

GLACIER RANGE RIDERS — Ben McConnell 1-5, Ryan CAsh 1-4, Sam Linscott 2-5, Brody Wofford 1-5, Dean Miller 0-4, Livingston Morris 2-3, Noah Marcelo 0-0, Ryan Cole 2-4, Bates 0-2, Eddie McCabe 0-1, Brandt Broussard 0-4.

BILLINGS MUSTANGS — Crews Taylor 1-4, Jalen Garcia 2-3, Jackson Raper 1-3, Mason Dinesen 0-0, Gabe Wurtz 1-4, Jacob Kline 0-4, Andrew Fernandez 2-5, Parreira 1-2, Abraham Mow 1-4, Bryce Jackson 0-0, Jordan Barth 1-4.

2B — Taylor, Raper, Wurtz. 3B — Garcia. HR — Morris, Mow (2). RBIs — Morris 4, Broussard, Mow 3, Raper 2, Garcia, Wurtz, Fernandez, Parreira. SB — Cash, Linscott. S — Bates, Parreira. SF — Wurtz.