Twins top Bandits, play Sunday for shot at title
LAUREL — Sam Hall threw a three-hitter, Mikey Glass had four hits and scored four times and the Glacier Twins beat Belgrade 10-2 Saturday at the State A Legion baseball tournament.
The win left three teams with one loss at the tournament: Belgrade, by virtue of its semifinal win over the Billings Blue Jays, advanced to Sunday’s championship at roughly 3 p.m.
The Twins (31-10) and Laurel Dodgers (55-9) battle at noon Sunday for a chance to play Belgrade for the title. Laurel ousted the Billings Blue Jays Saturday, 6-2.
Kellen Kroger hit three doubles and drove in three runs for Glacier; Glass and Kroger hit back-to-back doubles in the first inning for a 1-0 lead.
The gap grew to 4-1 in the third on a two-run Kroger double and Tristan Butts’ RBI single, and 7-1 in the fourth on an RBI single by Glass and a two-run base hit from Jake McIntyre.
All of this was enough for Hall, who allowed three hits and two walks, hit two Bandits with pitches and struck out one in seven innings. He threw 84 pitches.
Butts, who had three hits, and Josiah Ruther added RBI singles in the Twins’ three-run sixth inning.
Bandits 010 000 1 - 2 3 2
Twins 103 303 x - 10 14 0
Aidan Kulbeck, Keenan Kraft (6), Wyatt Russell (6) and Diego Casas. Sam Hall and AC Chilson.
BELGRADE BANDITS — Ryas Olson 0-4, Kraft 1-3, Kulbeck 0-3, Josh Arrants 0-3, Russell 0-1, Cam Ueland 1-3, Collin Delph 0-1, Gavin Waters 0-2, Casas 1-2.
GLACIER TWINS — Maddox Muller 0-5, Mikey Glass 4-4, Kellen Kroger 3-4, Tristan Butts 3-4, Jake McIntyre 1-3, Dayne Tu 0-3, Talon Murphy 1-1, Connor Venezio 0-3, M Mitts 0-0, Josiah Ruther 1-3, Chilson 1-3.
2B — Kroger 3, Glass. RBIs — Casas 2, Kroger 3, McIntyre 2, Glass, Butts, Venezio, Ruther.
State A Tournament
July 26-30, Laurel
Wednesday
Game 1: Glacier Twins 1, Butte Miners 0
Game 2: Belgrade Bandits 7, Mission Valley Mariners 3
Game 3: Billings Blue Jays 10, Havre Northstars 9
Game 4: Laurel Dodgers 9, Lethbridge Miners 6
Thursday
Game 5: Butte Miners 14, Havre Northstars 1. loser out
Game 6: Lethbridge Miners 8, Mission Valley Mariners 2, lo
Game 7: Billings Blue Jays 5, Glacier Twins 1
Game 8: Belgrade Bandits 3, Laurel Dodgers 2
Friday
Game 9: Glacier Twins 13, Lethbridge Miners 4, lo
Game 10: Laurel Dodgers 7, Butte Miners 5, lo
Game 11: Belgrade Bandits 10, Billings Blue Jays 4, semifinal
Saturday
Game 12: Laurel Dodgers 6, Billings Blue Jays 2, lo
Game 13: Glacier Twins 10, Belgrade Bandits 2
Sunday
Game 14: Laurel Dodgers (55-9) vs. Glacier Twins (31-10), noon
Game 15: Belgrade Bandits (31-10) vs. Winner 14, Championship, 45 minutes late