Beaten Thursday, Range Riders bounce back big on Friday

GREAT FALLS — The Great Falls Voyagers took an early 9-0 lead against the Glacier Range Riders, as they jumped on starter Brady Held an eventual 12-7 Pioneer League win on Thursday, snapping the Riders six-game winning streak.

Riders (6-3) would answer back with five runs in the top of the seventh inning on five hits and two errors by the Voyagers to trim the deficit to 9-5, until the Voyagers (3-6) tacked on three more runs in their bottom half of the inning to put the game out of reach.

The Riders returned home Friday to defeat the Voyagers 19-4, where in the bottom of the fourth inning their bats erupted for eight runs, capped off by a Joe McLaughin triple that scored three.