Libby Legion bounces back on Sasquatch; A Lakers swept
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LIBBY — Noah Gillespie worked five high-traffic, low-impact innings and Boe Miles homered as Libby scored a bounce-back 11-5 win over Sasquatch 17U in Legion baseball action Tuesday.
Gillespie worked around five walks and four hits allowed — and a bases-loaded situation in the first inning — while striking out three. He allowed three runs, two earned. But by the time Sasquatch scored in the fifth inning the Loggers led 8-0.
That was thanks in part to seven walks issued by four Sasquatch pitchers. Libby, which lost 8-5 to the asme team on Monday, scored four runs in the first inning, taking advantage of three walks and a hit by pitch.
Bransen Holzer’s two-run single made it 6-0 in the second inning and Kale Riddle’s RBI single made it 7-0 in the third.
Miles’ solo home run made it 9-3 in the fifth.
Jordan Griffin added a double for Libby. Ian Thom threw a spotless seventh inning, fanning two.
Red Sox sweep A Lakers
Held to six hits in two games, the Kalispell A Lakers dropped both ends of a Western A Legion doubleheader Tuesday, 15-2 and 12-2 to the Bitterroot Red Sox at Griffin Field.
Joe Hixon allowed one hit and one earned run in four innings in the opener, striking out five. Chase Wagner pitched the fifth inning; both games ended after five under the run rule.
Leadoff hitter Brady DeMoss had two hits and scored three times for the Red Sox (23-2), who combined 11 hits with 12 walks. Jackson Lubke drove in two runs.
Jacobe Sullenger and Dustin Gladeau had the Kalispell hits. Gladeau had the Lakers’ lone RBI.
Lubke and Wes Potter split the pitching in the second game, with Lubke giving up four hits and fanning five while Potter also fanned five in two perfect innings. Jude Widmer had two hits, including a two-run double, for the Red Sox.
Blake Paulsen and Cameron Sharp singled in runs in the second game for the Lakers (6-18). Sullenger had two hits, including a double, and scored once.
The Lakers’ next action is 11:30 a.m. Friday against the Flathead A’s — the opening game of the John R. Harp Memorial Tournament at Griffin Field.