Glacier softball holds off Butte for 4-3 victory

BUTTE — Glacier’s Taelor Holt and Ava Grady had big seventh-inning RBIs Tuesday — big because Butte muscled up in the bottom of the inning before falling to the Wolfpack 4-3 in Western AA softball.

Glacier (3-0) jumped ahead with two runs in the first, on Taelor Holt’s squeeze bunt and Grady’s RBI single. Butte (1-1) got one run in its first at-bats and then the game settled into a pitchers’ duel between the Pack’s Olivia Warriner and the Bulldogs’ Brea Henderson. 

The score stayed 2-1 Holt doubled in one run and Grady singled in another in the seventh, putting Glacier up three. Those runs loomed large when Henderson hit a two-out, two-run home run in the bottom of the seventh off Grady. 

Grady, who came on in the sixth inning, then got Cliry Conway to pop out to short to end it. 

Warriner threw well, allowing two hits and one walk in five innings, with four strikeouts. Grady also fanned four in her two innings of work. She allowed three hits. 

Chloe Farrell added a double for the Pack. 

Glacier    200    000    2    -    4    10    0 

Butte    100    000    2    -    3    5    1

Olivia Warriner, Ava Grady (6) and Emma Smith. Brea Henderson and Mattie Stepan. 

GLACIER — Warriner 0-4, Karley Allen 2-4, Taelor Holt 2-3, Grady 2-2, Smith 0-4, Sophia Frederick 1-4, Addy Cunningham 1-4, Chloe Farrell 1-3, Lanee Anderson 1-3. 

BUTTE — Reese Johnson 0-1, Stephan 0-3, Gracie Jonart 1-3, Lauren Warren 0-0, Kendallyn Schad 1-3, Ally Godbout 1-3, Taylor Reagan 0-0, Allie Becker 0-3, Brittyn Klima 0-3, Henderson 1-2, Savannah Stosich 0-1, Cliry Conway 1-3. 

2B — Farrell, Holt, Jonart. HR — Henderson. RBIs — Holt 2, Grady 2, Henderson 2, Jonart.