Twins, Red Sox 2-0 at District; Lakers, Mariners win

Jul. 23—Daily Inter Lake

The Glacier Twins and Bitterroot Red Sox got up early and came through Friday unbeaten at the West A District Legion baseball tournament, at Griffin Field.

The Red Sox downed Libby 7-2 behind starting pitcher Jacob Westberry and two relievers.Then the Twins, with Mason Peters pitching into the seventh inning, beat the Bitterroot Bucs 8-2 in Friday's finale.

Both winning teams led 3-1 after one inning, then pulled away to set up a winner's bracket semifinal today at 4 p.m

The Loggers (15-30) fell into a 10 a.m. loser out game against the Kalispell Lakers, before the Bucs (23-23-1) will take on the Mission Valley Mariners at 1 p.m.

In Friday's early loser-out games, the Mariners shut out Missoula 7-0, and the Lakers capped their second straight late-inning rally with a walk-off win in the eighth, 8-7 over Cranbrook, British Columbia.

Twins 8, Bucs 2

Kellen Kroger's two-run single highlighted a three-run first for the Twins — all the runs scored with two out — and a 5-run fifth put the game away.

Owen Shilling's three-run double put a capper on the fifth and sent Glacier (32-8) into the winner's bracket semifinal. The winner of that earns one of the West's two spots into the State A tournament, July 27-31 in Belgrade.

The Bucs outhit the Twins 10-4 but were undone by three untimely errors. None of the runs scored against starting pitcher Troy Larson were earned.

Peters gave up 10 hits and two walks in 5 2-3 innings. He fanned four. Maddox Muller recorded the last out of the game.

Bucs 100 000 1 — 2 10 3

Twins 300 050 x — 8 4 0

Troy Larson and Jacob Roth. Mason Peters, Maddox Muller (7) and AC Chilson.

BITTERROOT BUCS — Brodie Hinsdale 1-3, Patrick Duchien 2-4, Gabe Philbrick 3-4, Larson 2-4, Drew Scully 2-4, Braelon Bahm 0-3, Roth 0-2, Trapper Oster 0-3, Camden Blair 0-3.

GLACIER TWINS — Stevyn Andrachick 0-2, Petgers 0-3, Mikey Glass 0-3, Hayden Meehan 0-2, Kellen Krger 1-2, Jake McIntyre 2-3, Muller 0-3, Owen Shilling 1-3, Josiah Ruther 0-0, Chilson 0-3.

2B — Scully, Duchien, Shilling. RBIs — Larson, Scully, Kroger 3, Shilling 3, McIntyre, Meehan.

Red Sox 7, Loggers 2

Westberry scattered five hits and five walks in 5 2-3 innings, and struck out five. Brandon Brenneman and Tim Hickey split the last four outs.

Two walks, a single and two wild pitches helped the Red Sox bring in two runs in the first inning, leading to a 3-1 lead. That's all the runs they needed, though Conner Ekin's sacrifice fly and Bridger Huxtable's RBI single pushed their lead to 6-2 in the fifth inning. Paul Brennman tripled and scored in the seventh.

The Loggers drew four walks in the sixth — Aiden Rose drove in a run — but couldn't get the hits to go with. Tripp Zhang doubled and scored in the first for Libby.

Loggers 100 001 0 — 2 6 1

Red Sox 301 021 x — 7 9 0

Aydan Williamson, David Bailey (5) and Cy Williams. Jacob Westberry, Brandon Brenneman (6), Tim Hickey (7) and Paul Brenneman.

LIBBY LOGGERS — Tripp Zhang 2-4, Caden Williams 0-4, Williamson 2-4, Landon Haddock 0-1, Dylan Buckner 1-4, Cy Williams 0-4, Rusty Gillespie 1-2, Bailey 0-0, Caleb Moeller 0-2, Aiden Rose 0-2.

BITTERROOT RED SOX — Tim Hickey 1-3, Aaron Springer 2-3, Sawyer Townsend 2-3, Conner Ekin 0-2, Bridger Huxtable 1-3, Mason Anderson 0-2, Tyler Jones 1-3, Esten Pierce 0-3, Brenneman 2-3.

2B — Williamson, Zhang, Townsend, Hickey. 3B — PBrenneman. RBIs — Buckner, Rose, Ekin 2, Hickey.

Mariners 7, Mavericks 0

Cymian Kauley threw a three-hitter and Espn Fisher had two of Mission Valley's four hits and drove in four runs to help the Mariners get back on the winning track.

Kauley allowed three hits and five walks in seven innings, and struck out two.

Fisher hit a two-run single in the first inning, which turned out to be all the runs Kauley needed; still he drove in another two runs with a base hit in the fourth, putting his team up 7-0.

In between, Dawson DuMont smacked a two-run triple to cap the Mariners' 3-run second inning.

Missoula loaded the bases with one out in the second, but then the Mariners' Wyatt Wadsworth turned a grounder into an inning-ending, third-to-home-to-first double play.

The Mavs loaded them up again in the seventh before DuMont caught Weston McCullough's liner to center for the game's final out.

Easton Reimers threw 4 1-3 innings of solid relief — allowing two hits and a walk and striking out four — for the Mavs, who ended up 31-30..

Mavs 000 000 0 — 0 3 1

Mariners 230 200 x — 7 4 1

Chris Compton, Easton Reimers (2) and Jace Bykari. Cymian Kauley and Espn Fisher.

MISSOULA MAVERICKS — Cartr Taylor 1-2, Weston McCullough 0-4, Finn Davis 0-3, Sam Matosich 0-2, Owen McQuinn 0-3, Luke Thorne 0-2, Nate Dill 1-3, Rylan Davis 0-1, Andrew Hall 0-0, Bykari 1-3.

MISSION VALLEY MARINERS — Xavier Fisher 1-2, Alex Muzquiz 0-3, Dawson DuMont 1-4, EFisher 2-2, Dylan Davis 0-3, Wyatt Wadsworth 0-2, Ethan McCauley 0-3, Brock Henriksen 0-2, Cole Wadsworth 0-2.

3B — DuMont. RBIs — Fisher 4, DuMont 2.

Lakers 8, Bandits 7

For the second straight day the Lakers scored two runs in the seventh, but this time were able to cap it off with a win.

RBI singles from Joey Thatcher and Adam Nikunen tied the game 7-all in the seventh, and after Josh Close held Cranbrook (16-29-2) scoreless in the eighth — Kaden Drish starting a 6-4-3 double play to end the frame — they got the winning run without benefit of a hit.

Drish drew a lead off walk, took second on Nate Skonard's sacrifice and then stole third. He came in on a passed ball.

That completed a comeback from a 6-1 deficit in the fourth inning. Michael Owens helped his team rally with an RBI single in the fifth; Brysen Herion's RBI single in the sixth — his fourth hit — narrowed the gap to 6-5.

Bandits 120 300 10 — 7 11 4

A Lakers 010 112 21 — 8 11 1

Ryan White, Michael Clark (5), Leif Dubriel (7) and Harper Harris. Adam Nikunen, Jackson Heino (6), Josh Close (8) and Nate Skonard.

CRANBROOK BANDITS — Tyson Tanner 2-5, White 1-4, Clark 3-5, Dubriel 1-5, Brantley Johnson 1-4, Harris 0-2, Owen Relkoff 1-3, Tai Strachen 0-1, Blayke Butler 1-2, Vinny Fiorentiono 1-3.

KALISPELL A LAKERS — Timmy Glanvile 0-3, Joey Thatcher 1-5, Nikunen 2-5, Carter Schlegel 1-4, Brysen Herion 4-5, Kaden Drish 2-3, Skonard 0-2, Michael Owens 1-2, Tyler Williams 0-0, Close 0-0, Easton Capser 0-1, Heino 0-1, Braden Capser 0-0.

2B — Clark, Herion. RBIs — Clark 2, Fiorentiono, Tanner, Johnson, White, Owens 2, Herion, Sonar, Thatcher.

Late Thursday

Bucs 9, Lakers 8

Thursday's finale saw the Lakers push across two runs in the top of the seventh, only to see the Bitterroot Bucs score an unearned run with one out in its half to end it.

Timmy Glanville's bases-loaded single brought in Josh Close to tie the game, 8-8; Michael Owens tried to score a go-ahead run on the same play but was thrown out at the plate on a throw from Bitterroot's Roy Combs.

In the bottom of the inning, Camden Blair walked, stole second and scored when Combs' grounder was misplayed into an error.

The Lakers scored five runs in the first, keyed by Brysen Herion's two-run single and then four straight walks, before Bucs relievers Patrick Duchien and Andrew Scully steadied things.

The Bucs went in front 7-6 on Braelon Bahm's two-run double in the fourth; Bahm scored on a squeeze bunt two batters later.

Scully threw four strong innings before the Lakers worked two Bucs relievers for three walks and a hit in the seventh. Braden Capser drew the third walk, which scored Carter Schlegel; he'd hit a leadoff single.

Lakers A 500 100 2 — 8 6 3

Bucs 023 300 1 — 9 11 3

Carter Schlegel, Braden Capser (4), Josh Close (7) and TJ Hyack. Gabe Philbrick, Patrick Duchien (1), Andrew Scully (3), Troy Larson (7), Brodie Hinsdale (7) and

KALISPELL LAKERS — Timmy Glanville 1-3, Joey Thatcher 1-3, Adam Nikunen 0-4, Schlegel 1-3, Brysen Herion 1-4, Kaden Drish 1-2, TJ Hyack 0-1, Nate Skonard 1-2, Michael Owens 0-2, Easton Capser 0-1, BCapser 0-1, Josh Close 0-1.

BITTERROOT BUCS — Hinsdale 1-5, Roy Combs 1-4, Philbrick 2-4, Larson 2-4, Scully 1-3, Braelon Bahm 2-4, Jacob Rother 0-3, Duchien 1-3, Camden Blair 1-2.

2B — Larson, Bahm. RBIs — Herion 2, ECapser, BCapser, Glanville, Nikunen, Schlegel, Philbrick 2, Bahm 2, Blair 2, Duchien.

West A Districts

Griffin Field

(Top 2 go to State A, July 27-31 in Belgrade)

Thursday's games

Game 1 — Bitterroot Red Sox 7, Missoula Mavericks 3

Game 2 — Libby Loggers 2, Mission Valley Mariners 1

Game 3 — Glacier Twins 11, Cranbrook Bandits 3

Game 4 — Bitterroot Bucs 9, Kalispell Lakers 8

Friday's games

Game 5 — Mission Valley Mariners 7, Missoula Mavericks 0, loser out

Game 6 — Kalispell Lakers 8, Cranbrook Bandits 7, 8 innings, loser out

Game 7 — Bitterroot Red Sox 7, Libby Loggers 2

Game 8 — Glacier Twins 8, Bitterroot Bucs 2

Saturday's games

Game 9 — Libby Loggers (15-30) vs. Kalispell Lakers (26-31-1), loser out, 10 a.m.

Game 10 — Bitterroot Bucs (23-23-1) vs. Mission Valley Mariners (45-13), loser out, 1 p.m.

Game 11 — Bitterroot Red Sox (28-26) vs. Glacier Twins (32-8), semifinal, 4 p.m.

Game 12 — Winner Game 9 vs. Winner Game 10, loser out, 7 p.m.

Sunday's games

Game 13 — Loser 11 vs. Winner 12, loser is third, 10 a.m.

Game 14 — Winner 11 vs. Winner 13, championship, 1 p.m.

Monday's game

Game 15 — Second championship game, if necessary, time TBD.