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Range Riders win streak at 3 after wins Friday, Thursday

daily inter lake, kalispell, mont.
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Jun. 25—The Glacier Range Riders are streaking again, with Rob Hamby's six strong innings setting up their third straight win, 8-6 over the Great Falls Voyagers Friday at Glacier Bank Park.

The Range Riders (15-11) had to overcome a 4-2 deficit — the Voyagers scored four unearned runs in the second inning — and did it with a 9-hit attack, including Nick Lucky's two RBIs, including his first professional home run.

In the third inning the Coastal Carolina product capped a 3-run rally with an RBI single, scoring Ben Fitzgerald for a 5-4 Glacier lead; in the fifth inning he hit a solo homer to make it 6-4.

Glacier pushed the gap to 8-4 in the sixth on Kingston Liniak sacrifice fly — Liniak drove in three runs — and then weathered a seventh-inning rally by the Voyagers (8-18).

Hamby allowed just two hits and two walks in his six innings of work, and squared his season record at 1-1. He fanned three.

Tanner Solomon, John Natoli and Roy Robles threw an inning each out of the pen. Robles retired the side in order in the ninth, striking out one, for his first save.

Crews Taylor and Matt Clayton each scored twice for the Range Riders, who played Great Falls again Saturday and complete a six-game series with the Voyagers Sunday at 1:05 p.m.

Voyagers 040 000 200 — 6 5 1

Riders 203 021 00x — 8 9 1

Andrew Garcia, Brett Lorah (5) and Nick Emanuel. Rob Hamby, Tanner Solomon (7), John Natoli (8), Roy Robles (9) and Matt Clayton.

GREAT FALLS VOYAGERS — Jake Malec 1-5, Riley Jepson 0-4, Collin Runge 1-4, Jaylyn Williams 1-3, Eddie McCabe 1-4, Anthony Herron Jr. 1-3, Dilan Espinal 0-2, Emanuel 0-3.

GLACIER RANGE RIDERS — Gabe Howell 2-4, Jackson Raper 0-5, Dean Miller 0-5, Crews Taylor 0-3, Clayton 1-4, Ben McConnell 0-0, Ben Fitzgerald 1-2, Kingston Linak 0-2, Nick Lucky 2-4.

2B — Runge, Herron, Taylor, Clayton. HR — Lucky (1). RBIs — Runge 2, Malec, Jepson, Williams, Liniak 3, Lucky 2, Clayton.

Range Riders 6, Voyagers 5

On Thursday, Jackson Raper hit a tie-breaking solo home run in the eighth inning and the Glacier Range Riders beat Great Falls 6-5 for the second straight night.

The home run capped a comeback from a 5-2, seventh-inning deficit: New Range Rider Nick Lucky hit a two-run double in Glacier's half of the seventh to cut the gap to one, and Lucky scored on Ben McConnell's RBI single to make it 5-5.

Raper hit his third home run of the season for the Range Riders (14-11) with one out in the eighth.

Justin Coleman, Glacier's fourth reliever who came on in the eighth, got four outs for the win. He struck out one and improved to 2-0.

Great Falls third baseman/knuckleballer Collin Runge was again pretty effective against the Range Riders. Runge, who got his lone win against Glacier on May 25, allowed one hit — but six walks — and two runs in five innings. He struck out one.

Runge stayed in the game at DH and ended up 2-for-4 with an RBI for the Voyagers (8-17)..

Mason Dinesen added a double and stole two bases for Glacier. The Range Riders stole eight bases — two by Lucky, who scored twice — and got their first run on an RBI groundout by Crews Taylor.

The Range Riders play the Voyagers three more times in this home series, starting Friday at 7:05 p.m.

Voyagers 210 000 200 — 5 11 0

Range Riders 110 000 31x — 6 8 0

Runge, Ethan Swanson (6), Greg Blackman (8), Montana Quigley (8) and Billy Hancock. Nick Zegna, Ryan Cloude (6), Joseph Kinsky (7), Connor Housley (8), Justin Coleman (8) and Clayton.

GREAT FALLS VOYAGERS — Malec 2-4, Jepson 1-3, Runge 2-4, Kolbuch 2-5, McCabe 2-3, Herron 0-3, Hancock 1-4, Hesse 0-4, Espinal 1-4.

GLACIER RANGE RIDERS — Howell 0-3, Raper 1-2, Miller 1-5, Taylor 0-4, Clayton 0-3, Fitzgerald 1-3, Dinesen 1-4, Lucky 2-4, McConnell 2-2.

2B — Malec, McCabe, Dinesen, Lucky. HR — Raper (3). RBIs — McCabe