AA Lakers split with Bozeman again
BOZEMAN — James Moody went 4-for-4 with a double, stole home for the first of his three runs and drove in three runs as the Kalispell Lakers beat Bozeman 19-9 to earn a split of their AA Legion doubleheader Sunday.
Moody singled and scored in the Lakers’ seven-run third inning and — after Bozeman closed to 10-9 — doubled to lead off a nine-run fifth. He later hit an RBI single and scored for the second time in the frame.
Reliever Asher Baines then pitched a scoreless fifth to end the game under the mercy rule.
Haiden Bunyea hit two-run singles in the first and fifth innings for Kalispell (19-9). The top three hitters in the lineup — Kostya Hoffman, Ostyn Brennan and Gage Brink — each scored three runs.
In the opener Bozeman took advantage of five Kalispell errors to score a 5-4 win, despite Lakers pitcher Oscar Kallis allowing just three hits.
Dillon Farne’s RBI single in Bozeman’s half of the sixth inning to make it 5-2 was important, as the Lakers opened the seventh with a walk and three straight singles. Max Holden’s base hit brought home Ostyn Brennan; a double play grounder scored the fourth run, before a flyout ended the game.
Kallis walked two and struck out one in six innings. Just one Bozeman run was earned.
First game
Lakers AA 200 000 2 - 4 9 54
Bucks AA 103 001 X - 5 3 0
Oscar Kallis and Grady Drish. Jackson Burke, Dillon Coleman (4), Bryce Hampton (6) and Jadin Fransen.
KALISPELL AA LAKERS — Kostya Hoffman 1-4, Ostyn Brennan 1-3, Gage Bink 3-3, Max Holden 1-3, Elijah Owens 1-3, Haiden Bunyea 1-3, Kallis 0-3, Drish 1-2, Nic Gustafson 0-3.
BOZEMAN AA BUCKs — Jake Vigen 0-3, River Smith 0-2, Coleman 0-1, Corbin Holzer 0-3, Max Matteucci 0-3, Zane Haarer 1-3, Burke 0-3, Hampton 0-1, Dillon Farne 1-3, Frandsen 1-3.
2B — Brink. 3B — Haarer. RBIs — Holden 2, Brink, Matteucci, Farne.
Second game
Lakers AA 307 09 - 19 14 1
Bucks AA 204 30 - 9 13 1
Fletcher Postlewait, Asher Baines (4) and Brink. Justin Garcia, Austin Cooper (3), Haarer (5) and Frandsen, Hampton (4).
LAKERS — Hoffman 2-4, Brennan 1-2, Brink 1-3, Holden 1-2, Owens 2-3, Buneay 2-4, Kallis 1-3, Morisaki 0-3, Moody 4-4.
BUCKS — Vigen 2-4, Smith 1-2, Holzer 3-4, Matteucci 3-4, Coleman 2-2, Haarer 1-2, Fanre 1-2, Michael Armstrong 0-3, Frandsen 0-2, Hampton 0-1.
2B — Brennan, Brink, Holden, Moody, Coleman, Vigen, Holzer, Matteucci. RBIs — Bunea 4, Moody 3, Morisaki 2, Owens 2, Hoffman, Brennan, Brink, Holzer 3, Matteucci 2, Haarer 2, Coleman.