Range Riders fall one run short
Glacier starting pitcher Nick Zegna (11) delivers in the first inning against the Oakland Ballers at Glacier Bank Park on Tuesday, May 21. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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Glacier's Drew Sims (25) is congratulated at home plate by JD McLaughlin (7) after Sims' home run in the second inning against the Oakland Ballers at Glacier Bank Park on Tuesday, May 21. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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Glacier shortstop Mason Dinesen (23) fields a ground ball against the Oakland Ballers at Glacier Bank Park on Tuesday, May 21. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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Glacier shortstop Mason Dinesen (23) throws to first for an out against the Oakland Ballers at Glacier Bank Park on Tuesday, May 21. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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Glacier's Chad Castillo (28) connects on a double against the Oakland Ballers at Glacier Bank Park on Tuesday, May 21. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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Oakland's Dondrei Hubbard connects on a solo home run in the seventh inning against the Glacier Range Riders at Glacier Bank Park in Kalispell, Montana on Tuesday, May 21. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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Glacier second baseman Andy Atwood (21) throws to first for an out against the Oakland Ballers at Glacier Bank Park on Tuesday, May 21. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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Oakland right fielder Austin Davis (21) makes a leaping catch against the Glacier Range Riders at Glacier Bank Park in Kalispell, Montana on Tuesday, May 21. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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Oakland's Payton Harden (1) slides in ahead of the tag by Glacier Range Rider catcher Drew Sims at Glacier Bank Park in Kalispell, Montana on Tuesday, May 21. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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Oakland Ballers starting pitcher Abraham De Leon (26) delivers in the first inning against the Glacier Range Riders at Glacier Bank Park in Kalispell, Montana on Tuesday, May 21. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
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A trio of home runs was not enough for the Range Riders as they dropped their season opener Tuesday against the Oakland Ballers 7-6 at Glacier Bank Park.
Austin Davis finished the game 5-for-6 with four RBIs for Oakland (1-0), in the Ballers’ first Pioneer League game. He also scored the go-ahead run on a passed ball, sliding into home before Drew Sims could apply the tag.
“We got to get better defensively in terms of pitchers holding runners,” Range Riders manager Paul Fletcher said. “Just trying to slow the game down a little bit and make sure we watch what they do, make sure we know when they're running, how they are running. Just try and keep some of those guys off base.”
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