Late-inning Missoula surge dooms Riders Thursday
Glacier Range Riders starting pitcher Dawson Day (21) delivers in the second inning against the Missoula Paddleheads at Flathead Field on Thursday, July 7. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Missoula's Henderson Perez (37) scores on a double by Kamron Willman in the sixth inning against the Glacier Range Riders at Flathead Field on Thursday, July 7. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Missoula Paddleheads slugger Jayson Newman shares a laugh with the Glacier Range Riders Brody Wofford during a game at Flathead Field on Thursday, July 7. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Glacier Range Riders reliever Austin Steinfort throws against the Missoula Paddleheads at Flathead Field on Thursday, July 7. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Missoula second baseman McClain O'Connor (30) fires to first for an out against the Glacier Range Riders at Flathead Field on Thursday, July 7. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
The Glacier Range Riders take on the Missoula Paddleheads at Flathead Field on Thursday, July 7. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Glacier Range Riders reliever Bret Barnett (20) delivers in the sixth inning against the Missoula Paddleheads at Flathead Field on Thursday, July 7. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Glacier's Brody Wofford (24) lifts a single into the outfield against the Missoula Paddleheads at Flathead Field on Thursday, July 7. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Glacier Range Rider right fielder Sam Linscott (23) makes a catch at the wall on a fly ball by Missoula's Jayson Newman at Flathead Field on Thursday, July 7. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Glacier Range Riders third baseman Dean Miller (30) fires across the diamond to first basemen Brody Wofford (24) against the Missoula Paddleheads at Flathead Field on Thursday, July 7. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Missoula's Cameron Thompson (22) steals second base ahead of the tag by Glacier's Ryan Cash (5) in the fifth inning at Flathead Field on Thursday, July 7. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
On Thursday the late innings got away from the Glacier Range Riders, as Missoula scored 11 runs from the sixth inning on, in a 12-4 Pioneer League victory at Flathead Field.
McClain O’Connor and Keaton Greenwalt had three hits each to spearhead the North Division-leading PaddleHeads attack.
For the Range Riders (13-24), Brody Wofford drew a bases-loaded walk ahead of Dean Miller’s double-play grounder in the first. That 2-1 lead held up until the sixth, when Kamron Willman’s two-run double put Missoula up 3-2.
The runs kept coming: Greenwalt’s RBI single capped a three-run eighth inning that put Missoula up 9-2.
Glacier scored in the eighth when Ryan Cash walked and eventually scored on a wild pitch, and in the ninth when Brandt Broussard hit his first home run.
Starting pitcher Dawson Day threw four strong innings for Glacier, and Austin Steinfort pitched a scoreless fifth before the Paddleheads (28-10) piled up 13 hits against three Range Riders relievers.
MIssoula swept the three-game set in Kalispell, running its win streak to six games. The two teams began another three-game series in Missoula Friday night.
The Range Riders start a seven-day home stand Monday at 7:05 p.m. against Billings.
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Range Riders 200 000 011 - 4 5 1
Mark Timmins, Cody Thompson (6), John LaRossa (7), Nate Boyle (9) and Henderson Perez. Dawson Day, Austin Steinfort (5), Brtt Barnett (6), Kevin Kyle (7), Justin Coleman (8) and n/a. W — To,,oms (2-1). L — Barnett (0-1).
MISSOULA PADDLEHEADS — Brandon Riley 1-4, McClain O’Connor 3-5, Lamar Sparks 2-6, Jayson Newman 1-5, Nick Gatewood 2-4, Keaton Greenwalt 3-5, Cameron Thompson 2-5, Henderson Perez 0-3, Jared Akins 0-1, Kamron Willman 2-4.
GLACIER RANGE RIDERS — Ben McConnell 1-5, Ryan Cash 0-2, Sam Linscott 1-4, Brody Wofford 2-3, Dean Miller 0-4, Livingston Morris 0-3, Justin Mazzone 0-1, Ramon Enrieuz 0-3, John Pardue 0-1, Eddie McCabe 0-2, Brenton Davis 0-1, Brandt Broussard 1-3.
2B — Willman 2, Sparks, Newman, Gatewood, O’Connor, Wofford. HR — Broussard (1). RBIs — Greenwalt 2, Willman 2, Riley, OConnor, Sparks, Newman, Thompson, Wofford, Broussard. SB — Thompson, McConnell, Wofford. SF — Gatewood.
