Legion: Senators again sweep AA Lakers

by Daily Inter Lake
| July 12, 2022 12:00 AM

HELENA — It’s fair to say Helena has one hot Legion team, after the Senators swept a second AA doubleheader from the Kalispell Lakers Monday, running their win streak to 17 games.

Hunter Bratcher threw a two-hitter at the Lakers in the first game, which the Senators (38-9) won 5-0; in the second game Helena scored the last seven runs to prevail 8-4.

Max Holden and Jackson Nelson had Kalispell’s hits against Bratcher, who pitched a seven-inning shutout without the benefit of a strikeout. He also walked none.

Kalispell starter Kostya Hoffman allowed four runs in four innings, before giving away to Max Holden.

Kalispell (27-19) built a 4-1 lead in the second game, with all the runs coming in the third: Hoffman and James Moody sandwiched RBI singles around run-scoring doubles from Gage Brink and Oscar Kallis.

A pair of Laker errors, a bases-loaded walk, two singles and two sacrifice flies let Helena tie the game 4-4 in the fourth; another bases-loaded walk helped the Senators score four runs in the fifth. Eric Cockhill’s two-run double helped as well.

The Lakers’ next action is a pair of road doubleheaders Friday and Saturday against the Billings Royals.

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Kostya Hoffman, Max Holden (5) and Grady Drish. Hunter Bratcher and Trysten Mooney.

KALISPELL LAKERS AA — Ostyn Brennan 0-3, Hoffman 0-3, Gage Brink 0-3, Haiden Bunyea 0-3, Oscar Kallis 0-3, Max Holden 1-2, Elijah Owens 0-2, Drish 0-2, Jackson nelson 1-1, Kane Morisaki 0-1.

HELENA SENATORS — Bratcher 1-4, Mooney 3-4, Ty Tenney 2-3, Hunter Wallis 2-3, Mike Hurlbert 1-3, Walker Bennett 0-3, Manu Melo 2-2, Gavin Thennis 0-3, Eric Cockhill 0-3.

2B — Mooney, Tenney, Wallis. 3B — Bratcher.

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Kallis, Nic Gustafson (5) and Drish. Tyler Cutler, Hurlbert (4) and Thennis.

LAKERS — Brennan 1-3, Hoffman 1-4, Brink 1-3, Kallis 1-4, James Moody 1-4, Buneya 1-3, Morisaki 0-3, Drish 0-3, Gustafson 0-2.

SENATORS — Cockhill 1-3, Bohden Bahnmiller 1-2, Aaron Fuzesy 1-4, TMooney 2-4, Wallis 0-4, Carter Perlinski 0-3, Thennis 1-3, Will Lyng 1-2, Sam Ark 1-2.

2B — Brennan, Brink, Kallis, Cockhill. RBIs — Hoffman, Brink, Kallis, Moody, Cockhill 3, Thennis 2, Bahnmiller, Ark.