Riders lose in Knockout Round Friday

Livingston Morris brought the lumber to the Knockout Round again Friday, but the Glacier Range Riders still lost their Pioneer League game with the Great Falls Voyagers at Flathead Field.

Great Falls’ Collin Runge hit five out in the home run derby-style tiebreaker, while Morris — who won two earlier Knockout Rounds for the Range Riders — hit four.

Mason Dineson hit two doubles, including a wall-banger to center that drove in two in the sixth inning and gave Glacier a 3-0 lead.

Thanks in large part to a six shutout innings from pitcher Rob Hamby, the score was still 3-0 going to the ninth. Then the Voyagers’ Brayden Daniel hit a bases-loaded triple to tie the game.

Glacier fell to 16-17 this half. The Range Riders had won two games in Great Falls to climb to the .500 mark.

On Wednesday they scored seven times in the sixth inning to score a 7-5 victory; with two outs they got an RBI double from Dean Miller, two walks, RBI singles from McCabe and Ben McConnell and finally a three-run double from David Kyriacou.

On Tuesday Andrew Stout allowed just one hit in six innings of a 6-4 Glacier win. Ryan Cole hit his first professional home run, a three-run shot in the first.

Thursday’s game at Great Falls was postponed by rain, and will likely be made up when Glacier goes back to Great Falls to conclude the regular season, Sept. 8-10.