Twins take win, lead in Canada

CRANBROOK, Alberta — Late rallies in both games put the Glacier Twins in position for a doubleheader sweep of the Cranbrook Bandits Saturday, before rain got in the way.

Maddux Muller had three hits and 5 1-3 innings of sterling relief pitching in the opener, an 11-7 Glacier Twins victory. In the nightcap Josiah Ruther’s 2-run single broke a 4-4 tie and the Twins took an 8-4 lead in the sixth inning before the game was suspended.

The game will be completed at a later date.

In the first game, the Twins (3-0) overcame a 5-0 deficit in the second inning and took the lead for good in the fifth: After AC Chilson tied the game at 6-6 with an RBI single, Miller singled and both he and Chilson came home when Kellen Kroger’s groundball resulted in an error.

That made it 8-6; Chilson and Kroger both hit run-scoring singles in the seventh.

Muller scored three times, and on the bump added four hits, two walks and two unearned runs. He fanned three.

Tristan Butts had two hits and drove in two runs for Glacier.

The Twins trailed 4-3 going to the sixth inning of the nightcap, but strung together four hits, three walks and a hit batter to score five times. Ruther had the key hit, before Muller and Kroger added RBI singles to make it 8-4.

Tristan Butts, Ruither and Kroger each had two hits, and Butts and Jake McIntyre each scored twice.