A Lakers run record to 20-2

The Kalispell A Lakers continue to pick up wins, improving to 20-2 on the season with a doubleheader sweep of the Pullman A Patriots Sunday, 7-5 and 17-3.

The sweep completed a 5-0 week for the Lakers, who beat Pullman 15-1 Saturday and swept a pair of conference games from Libby on Wednesday and Thursday, 7-4 and 13-1.

In Sunday’s first game Brysen Herion had two hits, stole a base and drove in a run. He, Hunter Glidden and Hunter Fann all scored two runs.

Starting pitcher Bryce Buckmaster was very solid through five innings, allowing three hits, four walks and one run. He fanned four.

Fann threw the last two innings, absorbing a four-run Patriots rally in the seventh.

In the second game the Lakers used a 7-run third inning to open up a 13-2 lead; the game ended after 4 ½ innings under the mercy rule.

Buckmaster led the offense with three hits and four RBIs; Trever Cockerill had one hit, a double, and also had a sacrifice fly on the way to driving in four as well. Brecken Walcheck, Glidden and Ethan Kim each scored three times.

Braden Capser pitched four innings, allowing three hits, two walks and two unearned runs. He struck out nine.

On Saturday Capser had a triple and four RBIs and Luke Nikunen had a double and drove in three in the 15-1 win. No Laker had more than one hit — they totaled seven — but the hosts took advantage of nine walks and four hit batters issued by the Patriots in another game that ended in the fifth inning.

Herion and Fann drove in two runs each.

Liam Benson threw a 5-inning complete game, allowing two hits, two walks and one unearned run. He struck out three.

A Lakers sweep Libby

Jackson Heino’s two-run double keyed a six-run sixth inning for the Lakers in their 7-4 win in Libby Wednesday.

Kalispell trailed 4-0 before rallying: Hunter Fann hit a two-run double and Luke Nikunen added an RBI single ahead of Heino’s big hit that put the Lakers up 5-4; Heino scored on a suicide squeeze by Cale Brink to make it 6-4.

Libby scored two runs in the fifth thanks in part to three of the Loggers getting by pitches. Chase Rayome wore one to drive in a run that made it 3-0. Caleb Moeller then hit an RBI single.

Moeller threw five shutout innings for Libby before faltering in the sixth.

Brink threw the final 2 2-3 innings for the Lakers to get the win. He allowed one hit and one walk, hit two guys and fanned four. Heino started and allowed four hits and struck out seven.

On Thursday in Kalispell, Fann doubled, tripled and drove in four runs as the Lakers took advantage of nine walks issued by Logger pitching.

The Lakers did most of their damage in an eight-run second inning. Tanner Cockerill backed his own pitching with an RBI single that made it 3-0; Fann drove in two more runs with a base hit; then Libby made their second and third errors of the inning as the gap grew to 9-0.

Fann, who tripled and scored in the first inning, added a two-run double in the third to make it 11-1.

Cockerill allowed two hits and four walks in five innings. Libby’s run was unearned. He struck out seven.

Libby and the Lakers face off again Wednesday at Archie Roe, at 5 p.m.

Wednesday

Lakers 000 006 1 - 7 7 0

Loggers 000 220 0 - 4 6 1

Jackson Heino, Cale Brink (5), Luke Nikunen (7) and Bryce Quinnell. Caleb Moeller, Aiden Rose and Rusty Gillespie.

LAKERS A — Hunter Fann 2-4, Braden Capser 0-4, Nikunen 1-3, Bryce Buckmaster 0-3, Brysen Herion 0-2, Heino 1-1, Quinnell 2-3, Brink 0-2, Liam Benson 0-2, Eaton Capser 1-3.

LIBBY LOGGERS — Dylan Buckner 1-4, Rose 0-3, Cy Williams 1-3, Gillespie 0-3, Chase Rayome 2-3, Moeller 1-2, Issac Lamere, Amir Clutter 0-2, Sam Christianson 0-0, Kyla Hall 0-.

2B — Heino, Casper, Fann. RBIs — Fann 2, Hieno, BCapser, Nikunen, Brink, Rayome, Moeller, Lamere.

Thursday

Loggers 001 00 - 1 3 4

Lakers A 182 2x - 13 7 0

Buckner, Rose (2), Noah Gillespie (3) and R.Gillespie. Cockerill and

LOGGERS — Buckner 1-2, Rose 0-2, R.Gillespie 1-3, Ian Thorn 0-0, Rayome 1-1, Moeller 0-2, Lamere 0-2, Christianson 0-2, Clutter 0-0, N.Gillespie 0-01, James Redifer 0-2.

LAKERS A — Cockerill 1-3, Fann 3-3, Nikunen 1-2, BCapser 1-2, Heino 0-0, Quinnell 1-2, Kim 0-1, Glidden 0-2, Herion 1-3, Walcheck 0-2, ECapser 0-0.

2B — Fann. 3B — Quinnell, Fann. RBIs — Fann 4, Nikunen 2, Cockerill, Heino, Quinnel, Kim, Herion.