Bases-loaded walk seals sweep for A Lakers

Dillon Wink’s two-run single broke a 3-3 tie in the first game and Wyatt Sharp’s bases-loaded walk ended the second Saturday, as the Kalispell A Lakers swept a Legion baseball doubleheader from the Bitterroot Bucs at Griffin Field.

Wink’s big hit ignited a four-run inning that carried the Lakers (16-13) to a 7-4 win; Sharp’s walk in the eighth inning of the nightcap lifted Kalispell 4-3, completing a comeback from a 3-0 deficit. 

A Lakers 7, Bucs 4

The Bucs led 3-2 before George Schwan tied it up for the Lakers with an RBI single in the fourth inning. In the fifth, the hosts grouped together four singles with a Bitterroot error and a couple timely bunts.  

Wink’s single brought in Beau Schultz and Liam Rech, making it 5-3; after Sharp bunted Tait Orme and Wink over, Schwan hit his second RBI single of the game to score Orme.  

Then Miles Arrowsmith squeezed home Wink to put the Lakers up 7-3. 

Max Schara went the distance on the mound for Kalispell, scattering eight hits, three walks and two hit batters. He got a timely double-play grounder in the sixth inning, and in the seventh — after Caleb Katen’s RBI single cut the deficit to 7-4 — he fanned the next two Bucs to end it. He struck out four total and gave up two earned runs. 

A Lakers 4, Bucs 3 

The Bucs (3-5) again forged a lead, getting a sacrifice fly from Drew Wagner and a two-run single from McCoy Endres in the fifth inning. 

Kalispell answered with a two-run single from Schwan in its half of the fifth: Wink, who had doubled, and Orme, who’d walked, scored.  

In the seventh the Lakers loaded the bases with three walks — they drew 14 — and Arrowsmith executed another RBI squeeze bunt, tying the score. That set up extra innings, and in the eighth three walks along with a hit batter (Orme) ended it. 

Schwan went seven innings, allowing six hits, three walks and three earned runs. He fanned five. Mason Lewis pitched the eighth and got the win.