Range Riders extend win streak in walk-off fashion

Joe McLaughlin capped off a three hit day with a walk-off single in the bottom of the ninth that scored Trevor Sheehan to push the Glacier Range Riders past the Oakland Ballers 6-5 Sunday afternoon at Glacier Bank Park. 

Sheehan entered the game as a pinch runner for Chad Castillo after he walked to lead off the bottom of the ninth. Sheehan then advanced to second on a Nick Block groundout to shortstop. The following Glacier batter Benjamin Fitzgerald popped out to the catcher. After Gavin Tonkel was hit by a pitch McLaughlin stepped in the box with Jake Dahle on the hill for the Ballers and the rest was history. 

The Riders lead 5-3 after a sixth inning 454-foot moonshot by Mason Dinesen until Oakland strung together a pair of runs in the top half of the ninth against Glacier’s Connor Housley to set up the Riders walk off opportunity.