C-Falls wins Western A softball crown

FRENCHTOWN — Aspen Dawson drove in four runs and Maddie Moutlray and Kyrah Trankle had two RBIs each as Columbia Falls downed Polson 11-7 for the Western A Divisional softball title Saturday night.

Moultray backed her own pitching with three hits; she threw 5 1-3 innings and allowed four runs, three earned. She struck out four and gave up four hits and four walks.

Trenkle’s solo homer put Columbia Falls (20-3) up 2-0 in the second inning, but Polson jumped in front on Carli Maley’s 3-run home run in the third.

The Wildkats took the lead for good, 6-3, when Dawson’s bases-loaded grounder was misplayed and three runs scored in the fourth inning. Moultray added an RBI single in that inning.

Dawson’s two-run double in the fifth made it 10-3 and Moultray singled in Dawson for Columbia Falls’ final run.

Ally Paul’s two-run double highlighted Polson’s three-run seventh, but the Pirates (16-7) ended up runners-up.

Both teams are headed to the State A tournament beginning Thursday in Belgrade. Earlier Saturday Columbia Falls edged Libby 8-7 in the semifinals — using a six-run sixth inning rally to advance.

The Loggers (13-11) ended up fourth, falling to Frenchtown 13-0 in the third-place game.

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Avery Starr, Samantha Rensvold (5) and Carli Maley. Maddie Moultray, Sydney Man (6) and Demye Rensel.

POLSON — Mckenna Hanson 1-3, Maley 2-4, Starr 0-2, Rensvold 2-4, Neveah Perez 0-2, Ally Paul 1-2, Kailey Smith 1-3, Ansley Nordberg 0-4, Caitlyn Ward 0-3, Tyneesha Brown 1-3.

COLUMBIA FALLS — Tayler Lingle 2-2, Aspen Dawson 1-4, Moultray 3-4, Haden Peterson 1-4, Mann 1-3, Maddy Collins 0-3, A Reid 0-0, Sophie Robbins 0-3, Kyrah Trenkle 3-4, Rensel 1-3.

2B — Braun, Paul, Mann, Lingle, Dawson. 3B — Lingle. HR — Maley, Trenkle. RBIs — Maley 3, Paul 2, Smith, Dawson 4, Moultray 2, Trenkle 2, Peters, Collins.

Columbia Falls 8, Libby 7

The Loggers had the Wildkats on the ropes in the semifinals, putting up seven runs in the sixth inning — Phoenix Vincent’s 2-run homer started it and a 2-run double from Mackenzie Foss ended it — thanks partly to two Columbia Falls errors.

Down 7-2, the Wildkats got 2-run doubles from Trenkle, Dawson and Peters — the last two with two out — to go back in front. Mann, who came on in relief of Moultray with one out in the sixth, retired the side in order in the seventh to close out the win.

Foss threw a complete game for Libby, allowing six hits and five walks while striking out 11. Just one of the eight runs allowed was earned.

Overall, Foss had a huge weekend. She homered and threw a 3-hit, 13-strikeout shutout in a 4-0 win over East Helena Friday. Then she homered again, doubled twice and drove in eight runs in the Loggers’ 22-15 win over Hamilton the same day.

That slugfest also featured two doubles each from Jaycee Wilson and Peyton Waggoner. Wilson and Vincent each drove in three runs; Paislee MacDonald, Jossalyn White, Phoenix Vincent and Wilson all had three hits each.

Foss and MacDonald scored four times each in the win, which clinched a spot in the semifinals — and Libby’s second berth into the State A tourney in three seasons.

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Mackenzie Foss and Kynzee Boehmier. Moultray, Mann (6) and Rensel.

LIBBY — Paislee MacDonald 2-4, Boehmier 0-3, Foss 3-4, Jossalyn White 0-4, Phoenix Vincent 1-4, Jacee Wilson 1-3, Payton Waggoner 1-4, Lyndee McElmurry 0-4, Madison Vincent 2-3.

COLUMBIA FALLS — Lingle 2-4, Dawson 1-3, Moultray 1-3, Peters 1-3, Mann 0-3, Collins 0-2, Bella Mann 0-0, Robbins 1-3, Trenkle 1-3, Rensel 0-2.

2B — Foss, Wilson, Trenkle, Peters, Dawson. HR — P.Vincent, Moultray. RBIs — Foss 2, P.Vincent 2, MacDonald, M.Vincent, Trenkle 2, Peters 2, Moultray 2, Dawson 2.

Saturday’s scores

Game 11: Hamilton 9, Stevensville 2

Game 12: Butte Central 17, Browning 0

Game 13: Ronan 16, Whitefish 5

Game 14: Corvallis 17, East Helena 10

Game 15: Columbia Falls 8, Libby 7, semifinal

Game 16: Polson 5, Frenchtown 4, semifinal

Game 17: Hamilton 11, Butte Central 1

Game 18: Corvallis 6, Ronan 5

Game 19: Hamilton 9, Corvallis 4, fifth-sixth

Game 20: Frenchtown 13, Libby 0, third-fourth

Game 21: Columbia Falls 11, Polson 7, championship