The Libby Logger softball team suffered

a tough loss in Columbia Falls Thursday.

The Wildkats scored seven runs in the

fifth inning to beat Libby 11-7.

Libby totaled 10 hits and Wildkats 17

during the Northwestern A match-up.

The Loggers scored three first-inning

runs and were up 3-2 heading into the fifth.

The fifth started with Libby ahead, but

six hits and an error later and Columbia Falls was on top.

Libby was able to come back with four

runs in the top of the sixth to close to 9-7.

However, Columbia Falls answered with

two runs in the bottom of the sixth to increase its lead to four

runs.

Alysha Martin was 2-for-4 with a triple

and an RBI. Jaime Gilden was 2-for-4.

Libby 300 004 0 - 7 10 3

Columbia Falls 100 172 x - 11 17 1

Taylor Armstrong and Lexie Hageness.

Shaun Rowe and Erika Nelson. W - Rowe. L - Armstrong.

Libby - Jaime Gilden 2-4, Lexie

Hageness 1-2, Kim Tangen 1-2, Alysha Martin 2-4, Taylor Barton 1-4,

Taylor Armstrong 1-4, Alyssa Walker 0-3, Stacey Oedewaldt 1-4,

Brooke Rosling 1-3.

3B - Martin. 2B - Hageness. RBI -

Hageness 2, Martin 1.

Columbia Falls - Jessica Owens 3-5,

Renae Nelson 1-5, Shaun Rowe 3-5, Niki Birky 1-2, Erika Nelson 0-4,

Madison Sandefer 3-4, Kathrin Jetty 2-4, Tessa Cowan 1-3, Jaylynn

Cantu 1-1, Jordan Lefebvre 2-4.

2B - Rowe, Birky, Lefebvre. RBI - Owens

1, Rowe 3, Birky 2, Jetty 1, Cowan 1, Cantu 1, Lefebvre 2.