AA Lakers move to 3-1 at Palouse tournament

AA Lakers move to 3-1

at Palouse tournament

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PULLMAN, Wash. — Elijah Owens hit a bases-loaded triple and, and Max Holden’s sacrifice fly put the Kalispell AA Lakers ahead in a 10-8 win over City Baseball at the WSU Summer Palouse tournament Saturday.

The Lakers (26-10-1) are now 3-1 at the tournament, including a 10-1 win over Baiden late Friday. Saturday they rallied after surrendering five runs in the first and trailing 6-0. Max Holden hit a 2-run double to cap a 4-run third inning. In the fifth Owens’ triple knotted the game at 7-7; Holden’s sac fly put Kalispell up 8-7; Nic Gustafson then had a bunt single and scored on Gage Brink’s base hit to make it 9-7.

Kael Willis hit a lead off single and scored an insurance run in the sixth. The game ended under the tournament time limit after six innings.

Danny Kernan got the win with 4 ⅔ innings of solid relief. His two runs allowed were unearned; he gave up three hits and five walks, and struck out two.

Lakers AA 004 051 - 10 8 2

City Baseball 511 001 - 8 5 3

Ayden Driear, Danny Kernan (2), Joseph Schlegel (6) and Nic Gustafson, Grady Drish. Nakagawara, Padgett (5), Yeager (6) and Burris.

KALISPELL LAKERS AA — Gage Brink 2-3, Schlegel 1-3, Kael Willis 2-3, Kostya Hoffman 2-3, Ethan Diede 0-2, Elijah Owens 1-4, Max Holden 1-3, Owen Schilling 0-3, Nic Gustafson 1-2, Drish 0-1.

CITY BASEBALL — Rothman 0-3, Abner 0-1, Rosario 1-2, Yeager 1-4, Nakagawara 0-4, Murphy 1-3, Weber 0-0, Becus 0-1, Padgett 0-0, Kubo 1-2, Burris 1-4.

2B — Holden, Yeager. 3B — Owens. RBI — Owens 4, Holden 3, Schlegel, Hoffman, yegber 2, Nakagawara 2, Murphy, Kubo, Burris.

Late Friday

Lakers 10, Baiden 1

Kostya Hoffman allowed four hits and one run in five strong innings and Schlegel drove in three runs for the Lakers.

Hoffman walked none, struck out four and drove in a run. He also walked in the seventh, and when his pinch-runner, Gustafson, scored on Schlegel’s 2-run double, that capped a 7-run outburst and ended the game under the mercy rule.

Ethan Diede tripled and scored in the seventh. Owens drove in runs with a bases-loaded walk in the first and an RBI single in the third.

Baiden 000 01 - 1 4 1

Lakers AA 300 07 - 10 8 3

Smidt, Sauceda (5) and Mcfarlane. Hoffman and Drish.

BAIDEN — Sauceda 1-2, Frondozo 1-2, Johnson 0-2, Webb 0-2, Rowland 0-2, Benavides 1-2, McLaren 0-2, McFarlane 0-2, Bennett 1-2, Delgado 0-2.

KALISPELL LAKERS AA — Van Aken 0-3, Brink 1-3, Willis 1-4, Hoffman 1-3, Schlegel 1-3, Diede 1-1, Owens 1-2, Holden 1-3, Drish 1-2, Caleb Morgan 0-0, Gustafson 0-0.

2B — Bennett, Schlegel., 3B — Diede. RBI — Bennett, Brink, Hoffman, Schlegel 3, Owens 2, Drish.