FLORENCE — The Glacier Twins settled down after a rocky start to beat the Bitterroot Bucs 9-3 in the Class A American Legion baseball conference opener for both teams on Saturday.

Glacier scored twice in the top half of the first inning, but allowed the Bucs to go on top 3-2 in the bottom half of the inning by committing two errors.

Glacier shut down the Bucs after that.

“We hit the ball well, put the ball in play, bunted well,” Glacier Twins coach Bob Rupp said. “Hit the ball when we needed to.”

The Twins (3-3 overall, 1-0 league) scored runs in six innings.

Vincent Smith, 2 for 5, tripled for the Twins in the fifth inning.

AJ Wetsch, the winning pitcher, doubled.

“The pitching was really good,” Rupp said.

“The last few games we have struggled with middle relief, but that changed today with Ryan Veneman.”

The two teams play again today at 11 a.m. Tyler Murphy will start on the mound for the Twins.

Glacier 210 102 201 — 9 14 2

Bitterroot Bucs 300 000 000 — 3 9 3

AJ Wetsch, Ryan Veneman (6), Colten Parker (9) and Tyler Murphy; Liam LeCoure, Rees LeSoine (6) and Jacob Skully. W —Wetsch; L — LeCoure.

GLACIER — Parker 2-5, Tristin Steinwand 1-3, James Sampson-Keck 1-4, Vincent Smith 2-5, Jesse Walburn 3-5, Derek Kastella 0-2, Veneman 1-2, Max Smyley 1-4, Grayson Bistodeau 0-1, Murphy 2-4, Wetsch 1-3.

Bitterroot — Dylan Gavlak 1-4, Brenden Bailey 0-1, Alex Gavlak 1-5, LeSoine 0-4, Bo Zeiler 2-4, Jake Finley 2-4, LeCoure 2-4, Skully 0-3, Braxton McCullough 1-3, Drue McCawley 0-3, Nathan Binder 0-1.

2B—Wetsch, Finley; 3B—Smith; RBIs—Parker, Steinwand, Sampson-Keck, Smith, Walburn, Smyley, Murphy; Finley, LeCoure (2).

Kalispell A 14, Missoula A 13 | Missoula A 8, Kalispell A 7

MISSOULA — Kalispell and Missoula split a wild back-and-forth Class A nonconference doubleheader.

Randy Stultz, 2 for 4, belted two triples and Jaycob Serrano, 3 for 5, had a double and drove in four runs for the Lakers in the victory.

Clayton Jaques, 3 for 5, doubled twice.

Ryan Symmes and Jaryon Venturini both had two hits in the loss. Venturini and Sam Elliott both drove in two runs.

The Lakers host Helena for a doubleheader today starting at 1 p.m.

Kalispell A 113 103 131 — 14 21 1

Missoula A 050 140 030 — 13 19 1

WP—Brady Peiffer. LP—Jayce Denman.

KALISPELL — Tyler Kitch 4-5, Ryan Symmes 2-6, Randy Stultz 2-4, Adam Joy 0-1, Jaycob Serrano 3-5, Peiffer 0-2, Clayton Jaques 3-5, Keaden Morisaki 0-2, Jaryon Venturini 1-2, Nathan Vanderbeek 2-2, Drew Flink 1-3, Drew Scherrer 3-5.

MISSOULA — Sam Bucy 3-6, Beau King 4-6, Will Larson 0-4, Dare Fraser 4-5, Jayce Denman 2-5, Parker Stevens 0-6, Brendan Buchanan 2-6, Matthew Claussen 1-4, Asher Zimmerman 3-5.

2B—Jaques (2), Vanderbeek, Serrano; Fraser; 3B—Stultz (2); Denman; HR—King; RBIs—Symmes, Stultz, Serrano (4), Jaques (2), Flink, Scherrer; Bucy, King (5), Larson, Fraser, Denman (2), Stevens, Zimmerman.

Kalispell A 120 202 0 — 7 7 2

Missoula A 220 003 1 — 8 8 3

WP—Connor Daniels. LP—Keaden Morisaki.

KALISPELL — Ryan Symmes 2-3, Tyler Kitch 0-0, Randy Stultz 1-1, Jaryon Venturini 2-4, Sam Elliott 1-2, Brady Peiffer 1-4, Adam Joy 0-4, Clayton Jaques 0-4, Drew Scherrer 0-3, Kyle Calles 0-2.

MISSOULA — Beau King 0-5, Sam Bucy 1-3, Will Larson 0-3, Dare Fraser 3-3, Drew Leonard 0-3, Jaeran Graham 2-4, Kellen Johnson 0-2, Kyle Taylor 2-4, Daniels 0-2.

RBIs—Stultz, Venturini (2), Elliott (2), Peiffer; Fraser, Graham (4), Johnson.

Kalispell AA 7, Butte AA 2 | Kalispell AA 11, Butte AA 1

BUTTE — Leif Ericksen tossed a one-hitter in the second game as the Kalispell Lakers swept the Butte Miners in Class AA doubleheader play.

Ericksen had three strikeouts and walked two batters in his five innings on the mound.

He singled in two runs to help his cause.

Jonas Nyman went 3 for 3 and drove in two runs for the Lakers. He doubled along with Joe Broughton.

In the first game, Haydn Schlepp, 4 for 4, had the hot bat for Kalispell.

He doubled, along with Broughton.

Dawson Smith was the winning pitcher in that contest. He went six innings, fanning five and allowing five hits.

Kalispell never trailed in either outing.

“Both guys on the mound threw well for us,” Lakers coach Ryan Malmin said.

“We were pretty aggressive on the bases, had six stolen bases in each game.

“Overall, we were a little sloppy in the first game, but did a better job in the second.”

Kalispell plays a doubleheader today in Helena.

Kalispell AA 101 040 1 — 7 8 3

Butte AA 000 002 0 — 2 6 2

WP—Dawson Smith. LP—Quin Summers.

KALISPELL — Hadyn Schlepp 4-4, Micah Benson 1-4, Joe Broughton 1-1, Patrick O’Connell 1-2, Leif Ericksen 0-3, Andrew Schleusner 0-3, Spencer Pisk 0-3, Eric Seaman 0-3, Jayson Combs 1-3.

BUTTE — Zach Hart 2-4, Trey Hoagland 1-3, Ryan Moodry 0-2, Summers 0-3, Ax Henningson 1-3, Trey Berger 1-3, Renzy Doherty 1-3, Kash Kelley 0-3, Justin Summers 0-3.

2B—Schlepp, Broughton; 3B—Hoagland; RBIs—Schlepp, Broughton (3), O’Connell, Ericksen; Hoadland, Moodry.

Kalispell AA 024 140 — 11 13 0

Butte AA 001 00x — 1 1 3

WP—Leif Ericksen. LP—Trey Berger.

KALISPELL — Haydn Schlepp 1-4, Micah Benson 1-4, Joe Broughton 1-4, Ericksen 1-3, Patrick O’Connell 1-4, Andrew Schleusner 2-2, Logan DeCock 2-4, Jonas Nyman 3-3, Jayson Combs 0-2, Spencer Pisk 1-1.

BUTTE — Zach Hart 0-3, Ax Henningson 0-1,Trey Hoagland 1-2, Quin Summers 0-0, Ryan Moodry 0-1, Kash Kelly 0-1, Renzy Doherty 0-2, Dyllan Lane 0-2, Justin Summers 0-2, Logan Lafrombone 0-2.

2B—Nyman, Broughton; 3B—Hoagland; RBIs—Broughton, Ericksen (2), Schleusner, DeCock (2), Nyman (2); Hoagland.