Zegna, Lucky lead Range Riders to Monday win

by Daily Inter Lake
| July 11, 2023 9:50 AM

Nick Lucky homered, Nick Zegna threw seven strong innings and the Glacier Range Riders cruised to a 7-0 lead on the way to an 8-3 Pioneer League baseball win over Idaho Falls Monday.

Dean Miller had three hits and Ben McConnell had a double and three runs batted in for the Range Riders (26-15), who scored five times in the third inning at Glacier Pank Park.

Zegna allowed five hits and two walks while improving to 4-1 on the season. He fanned three Chukars (16-27).

Miller had an RBI triple and scored on Benjamin Fitzgerald’s sacrifice fly in the first inning; McConnell’s bases-loaded double was the key hit in the third. He came in on Gabe Howell’s single for a 7-0 gap.

After Mark Herron, Jr., homered to put Idaho Falls on the board in the fifth inning, Lucky answered with a solo shot, his fourth, in Glacier’s half of the inning. Lucky scored twice.

The Range Riders play the Chukars six times this week. Tuesday's start time is 7:05 p.m.

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Bryant Bagshaw, Victor Rodirguez (3), Tyler Wyatt (7) and Hunter Hudson. Nick Zegna, Michael YaSenka (8), Connor Housley (9) and Matt Clayton.

IDAHO FALLS CHUKARS — Bryce Browsn 1-4, Robert Paller 2-4, Eduardo Acosta 1-3, Michael Kohn 1-4, Trevor Halsema 0-4, Stephen Cullen 0-3, Mark Herron Jr 1-4, Hudson 0-3,. Brandon Bohning 1-3.

GLACIER RANGE RIDERS — Gabe Howel 1-3, Jackson Raper 0-4, Dean Miller 3-4, Benjamin Fitzgerald 0-3, Clayton 1-3, Nick Lucky 2-4, Sam Linscott 1-4, Mason Dinesen 0-3, Ben McConnell 2-4.

2B — Paller, Kohn, McConnell. 3B — Miller. HR — Herron Jr. (5), Lucky (4). RBIs — Acosta 2, Herron Jr., McConnell 3, Howell, Miller, Fitzgerald, Lucky, Linscott.