Lakers split Sunday twinbill with Mavs
This past Saturday was balmy, but Sunday was good enough and the Kalispell AA Lakers took advantage of the weather to split the first two games of their American Legion baseball season. The Missoula Mavericks came to Griffin Field and, with temperatures hanging around 50 degrees, picked up a 12-8 win thanks to a 9-run fifth inning. The Lakers then put up a five-spot in the sixth inning to cool off the Mavericks, 9-8, splitting the doubleheader.
In the loss, Kalispell’s Carter Schlegel had three hits including a double, and Andre Cephers and Nate Skonard each scored twice.
In Sunday’s win Adam Nikunen drew four walks and scored twice; the Lakers were issued 12 walks overall. Cephers doubled, drove in two and scored twice, and Timmy Glanville and Ostyn Brennan each had a double and two hits.
Nikunen also got the win on the mound, coming on in the sixth inning as the Mavs built an 8-4 lead. He retired four of the five batters he faced.
The AA Lakers’ next action is a doubleheader with the Havre Northstars Saturday at 3 p.m. at Griffin Field. They then play the Cranbrook Bandits two games Sunday starting at 1 p.m.
The A Lakers begin their season Saturday with a doubleheader at 1 p.m. against the Great Falls Chargers; they play a twinbill with the Northstars Sunday at noon.
A season preview will run in Friday’s Inter Lake.
First game
Mavs AA 011 090 1 - 12 13 2
Lakers AA 120 000 5 - 8 6 3
S Fairchild, L Thorn (4), M Anderson (7), C Boyce (7) and J Bykari, B Taft and Rylen Davis. Max Holden, Andre Cephers (5) and Nate Skonord.
MISSOULA MAVERICKS — C Taylor 4-5, Bykari 1-4, Boyce 1-4, S Matosich 0-43, F Davis 0-3, Tafft 0-1, Easton Reimers 1-4, C Compton 2-4, O McGuinn 3-4, Rylen Davis 1-4, S Fairchild 0-0.
KALISPELL LAKERS AA — Ostyn Brennan 0-1, Oscar Kallis 0-3, Holden 0-3, Carter Schlegel 3-4, Joey Thatcher 2-4, Adam Nikunen 1-3, Cephers 0-1, Skonord 0-2, Kyne Vojta 0-3, Colin Leonard 0-0, Timmy Glanville 0-0.
2B — McGuinn 2, Taylor 2, Boyc, Schlegel, Nikunen. RBIs — Taylor 3, Bykari 2, Reimers 2, McGuinn 2, Boyce, Matosich, Brennan, Kallis, Thatcher, Nikunen, Skonard, Glanville.
Second game
Mavs AA 123 011 0 - 8 8 3
Lakers AA 010 125 x - 9 8 4
Matosich, McGuinn (4), Bykari (6), Boyce (7) and R. Davis. Brennan, Schlegel (2), Nikunen (6) and Cephers.
MAVERICKS — Taylor 2-3, Bykari 1-3, Boyce 1-3, Compton 0-3, Fairchild 0-3, McGuinn 1-2, Anderson 1-3, Thorne 0-4, Taft 1-2, R.Davis 1-3.
LAKERS AA — Brennan 2-4, kallis 1-3, Holden 1-4, Schlegel 0-3, Nikunen 0-0, Thatcher 0-2, Cephers 1-3, Glanville 2-2, Kaden Drish 1-4.
2B — R.Davis, Glanville, Cephers, Brennan. 3B — McGuinn. RBIs — Bykari 3, Boyce, Compton, Anderson, Cephers 2, Drish, Brennan.