Big innings lift Big Sky over Wolfpack
Glacier's Emma Cooke (15) connects on a solo home run in the third inning against Missoula Big Sky at Glacier High School on Thursday, May 5. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Glacier third baseman Paishance Haller (27) throws over to first after charging and fielding a bunt in the fourth inning against Missoula Big Sky at Glacier High School on Thursday, May 5. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Glacier's Teagan Powell (18) connects on a single against Missoula Big Sky at Glacier High School on Thursday, May 5. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Glacier centerfielder Mady Osler (19) tracks down a fly ball in the first inning against Missoula Big Sky at Glacier High School on Thursday, May 5. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Glacier pitcher Ella Farrell (12) delivers in the fourth inning against Missoula Big Sky at Glacier High School on Thursday, May 5. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Glacier shortstop Sammie Labrum (1) fields the throw down to second as Missoula Big Sky's Jordan Whitmire (7) slides in safely with a steal at Glacier High School on Thursday, May 5. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Glacier's Kenadie Goudette (2) connects on a two-run double in the second inning against Missoula Big Sky at Glacier High School on Thursday, May 5. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Glacier starting pitcher Alli Kernan (11) delivers to a Missoula Big Sky batter in the fourth inning at Glacier High School on Thursday, May 5. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Glacier third baseman Ella Farrell (12) applies the tag as Missoula Big Sky's Sadie McGuinn (6) slides in safely at third after a passed ball in the fourth inning at Glacier High School on Thursday, May 5. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Two big innings by Missoula Big Sky doomed the Glacier softball squad Thursday, in the Eagles’ 13-9 Western AA win over the Wolfpack.
Big Sky used three walks and six hits — Delaney Laird’s two-run double was the big clout — to score six runs in the fourth inning, and then tacked on four runs in the seventh to improve to 6-9 overall, 5-4 in league games.
An error and a wild pitch scored two of those seventh-inning runs, leaving Glacier (7-7 overall, 2-6 in league) down 13-8. This was after the Pack closed to 9-7 with a four-run sixth: Alli Kernan and Emma Cooke each hit two-run home runs in the frame.
Cooke had another solo homer in the third that put Glacier up 3-1. Kenadie Goudette hit a two-run double in the second for Glacier.
The Pack next heads to Helena for a Friday game against Helena High at 5:45 p.m., and a Saturday battle with Capital at 11:45 a.m.
Big Sky 001 602 4 - 13 9 2
Glacier 021 014 1 - 9 12 7
Liberty Rogers, Annika Loewen (7) and Brooke Schaffer. Alli Kernan, Ella Farrell (4), Olivia Gibbons (5), Morgan Vivivan (7) and Brooklyn Imperato.
MISSOULA BIG SKY — Kyler Latrielle 2-6, Jordan Whitmire 1-4, Grace Hood 0-2, Delaney Laird 1-4, Sadie McGuinn 2-4, Schaffer 1-3, Logan Baack 1-3, Breanna Hewitt 1-4, Irene Griswold 0-3, Syerra Peterson 0-0.
GLACIER — Nakiah Persinger 1-2, Sammie Labrum 1-5, Emma Cooke 3-5, Farrell 0-2, Gibbons 0-2, Vivian 0-0, Payshance Holler 1-4, Imperato 1-2, Kenadie Goudette 2-4, Teagan Powell 2-2, Kernan 1-3.
2B — Laird, Goudette, Cooke. HR — Cooke 2, Kernan. RBIs — Latrielle 2, Laird 2, McGuinn, Schaffer, Griswold, Cooke 3, Goudette 2, Kernan 2, Imperato, Powell.
