Garner powers Range Riders past Mobiles
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Carson Garner homered twice as the Glacier Range Riders broke open a close game and rolled past the RedPocket Mobiles 15-2 in Pioneer League baseball on Tuesday night at Glacier Bank Park.
The Mobiles (1-36 in the second half, 13-72 overall) struck first on a TJ McKenzie RBI single in the second before Donovan Ratfield tied the game for Glacier (15-22, 44-41) an inning later with his own RBI single.
In the fifth, the Range Riders moved ahead 3-1 behind an RBI single from Logan Beard and a sacrifice fly from Garner. Jeremiah Cabuyaban answered with a solo homer in the sixth to pull the Mobiles within one.
Then Glacier’s offense popped.
Tommy Rover started a seven-run sixth inning with a two-run triple. Casey Murray and Beard added RBI singles before Garner launched a three-run homer to left, stretching the lead to 10-2.
Garner homered again in the eighth, his 12th of the season, to increase Glacier’s lead 12-2.
Beard went 4 for 6, while Andrew Collins added three hits as the Range Riders piled up 19.
Aidan Elfering earned his seventh win, allowing two runs across seven innings. Jacob Hasty and Davis Pratt each threw a scoreless inning to finish it.
The series continues Wednesday at 6:35 p.m.
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Bobby Spencer, Brady Reinhart (6), Dakota Aspinwall (8), and Manny Jackson. Aidan Elfering, Jacob Hasty (8), Davis Pratt (9), and Donovan Ratfield.
REDPOCKET MOBILES — TJ McKenzie 1-5, Gianni Horvat 1-5, Jordan Harrison-Dudley 0-3, Efrain Manzo 2-4, Jeremiah Cabuyaban 1-4, Jackson 1-4, Royce Clayton Jr. 0-4, Jordan Hamberg 2-4, Sean Becker 1-3.
GLACIER RANGE RIDERS — Kyle Ashworth 0-2, Gabriel Roessler 2-2, Logan Beard 4-6, Ratfield 2-4, Carson Garner 2-5, Jake Millan 1-4, Tommy Rover 2-5, Casey Murray 2-4, Andrew Collins 3-5.
2B — Becker. Rover, Murray. 3B — Rover. HR — Cabuyaban (5). Garner 2 (12). RBIs — McKenzie, Cabuyaban. Garner 5, Murray 3, Rover 2, Beard 2, Roessler, Ratfield.