AA Lakers win 2 at Bozeman tourney
BOZEMAN — Friday went much better for the Kalispell Lakers, who picked up two wins at the Bozeman AA Invitational Legion baseball tournament.
To start the day Ostyn Brennan tripled, doubled and drove in three runs while pitcher Jackson Heino shook off a rocky first inning as the Lakers (34-16) beat the Calgary Trappers 13-2.
In their second game the Lakers’ Michael Owens broke a 4-4 tie with a sixth-inning RBI single in what became an 8-5 win over Nampa, Idaho.
The Lakers, who lost Thursday 11-5 to Pocatello Post 4, next play at 8 a.m. Saturday against the CBC Post 2 Oilers out of Casper, Wyoming.
Lakers 13, Trappers 2
After Brennan doubled and scored on Carter Schlegel’s single in the first inning, Calgary pushed across two runs thanks to two hit batters and two throwing errors charged to Heino.
From there, though, Heino was in command: He allowed two hits, two walks and no earned runs in five innings (the game was called under the mercy rule). He fanned five.
Oscar Kallis knotted the score at 2-2 with an RBI single in the second and scored the go-ahead run on a wild pitch.
Owens added a two-run single in the third for the Lakers, and Luke Nikunen’s RBI triple in the fourth made it 8-2. Owens hit a leadoff double to spark a four-run fifth inning; Brennan’s three-run triple was the big hit there.
First Game
AA Lakers 133 24 - 13 10 5
AA Trappers 200 00 - 2 2 5
Jackson Heino and Ostyn Brennan. Sam Rowser, Dawson Simper (5) and Jace Jorgensen.
KALISPELL AA LAKERS — Brennan 2-4, Carter Schlegel 2-4, Luke Nikunen 1-4, Kaden Drish 1-3, Trever Cockerill 0-3, Oscar Kallis 1-2, Michael Owens 2-2, Hunter Fann 1-2, Collin Leonard 0-0.
CALGARY AA TRAPPERS — Brok Buttars 0-1, Mason Smith 0-2, Kayden Cullimore 1-3, Jackson Pearce 0-2, Jorgensen 0-1, Z Foulger 0-2, Ethan Nielsen 1-2, Mason Leishman 0-2, Tristan Merritt 0-2, Rowser 0-1
2B — Owens, Brennan. 3B — Brennan, Nikunen. RBIs — Brennan 3, Oewns 2, Schelgel, Nikunen, Drish, Kallis, Fann.
Lakers 8, Chiefs 5
Owens, who tripled and scored Kalispell’s first run on Hunter Fann’s single in the second inning, put his team ahead for good with a single on a 1-2 pitch. That drove in Kaden Drish, who’d been hit by a pitch to lead off the inning.
Fann and Brennan singled and bases-loaded walks to Andre Cephers and Nikunen pushed the gap to 8-5.
In the fifth inning Cephers (double) and Buckmaster (single) drov ein runs as the Lakers made a 4-2 deficit.
The 10-hit attack backed Oscar Kallis, who scattered eight hits and two walks in six-plus innings. Schlegel came on with two one nobody out in the seventh and finished up for the save.
Second Game
Chiefs 002 110 1 - 5 9 0
AA Lakers 011 024 x - 8 10 1
Parker Kons, Gabriel Schwenken (6) and Robert Martinez. Kallis, Schlegel (7) and Andre Cephers.
NAMPA CHIEFS — Max Sperry 1-3, Tristin Miley 0-3, Hayden Wade 3-4, Jacob Scott 1-4, Keegan Sullivan 1-4, Martinez 2-4, Nathan Kessinger 0-3, Tyler Downes 0-2, Bryce Wallingford 1-3.
AA LAKERS — Brennan 2-4, Schlegel 1-4, Nikunen 0-3, Drish 0-3, Cockerill 1-3, Owens 2-3, Fann 2-2, Cephers 1-2, Bryce Buckmaster 1-2.
2B — Scott, Martinez, Cephers, Brennan. 3B — Sperry, Owens. RBIs — Wade, Scott, Wallingford, Buckmaster 2, Brennan, Schlegel, Nikunen, Owens, Fann, Cephers.