A’s win, A Laker lose on Harp’s final day

The Flathead A’s closed with a win and the Kalispell A Lakers dropped their final game at the John R. Harp Memorial baseball tournament that concluded Sunday at Griffin Field. 

The A’s rallied for a 5-3 win over the ATHX Jr. Redhawks in Sunday’s first game; later on the Lakers fell to the Prairie Cardinals 15-6. 

The Redhawks out of Edmonton, Alberta, advanced to the tournament championship against the Black Gold 47s out of Beaumont, Alberta, who advanced with an 8-7 win over the Calgary Premier Blues. 

The Redhawks won the title game 12-3. 

A’s 5, Redhawks 3

Jaxson Cadwell capped a three-run fifth inning with a two-run triple, and the Flathead A’s rallied past the ATHX Jr. Redhawks out of Edmonton. 

The A’s (12-7) trailed the Redhawks 3-2 before Lucas Rojas started the pivotal rally with a double. All the runs scored with two out: Easton Corbett and Wyatt Keller hit singles, the latter bring in Rojas with the tying run. Cadwell’s triple scored Corbett and Keller and made it 5-3. 

The Redhawks (12-30-2) got two, two-out singles in the sixth inning off Gavin Knapp. Wyatt Hanchett came on and fanned the next hitter, then worked around a leadoff single in the seventh to close it out. 

Knapp went 5 2-3 innings, allowing six hits, four walks and two earned runs. He fanned three. 

Zac Wojtas had three of the Redhawks’ seven hits.  

Cardinals 15, Lakers 6

The Lakers led 3-1 before the Cardinals put up four runs in the third and fourth innings and scored six in the fifth. 

Timothy Kearney and Jonas Brown drove in three runs each for the Cardinals (7-13) out of Post Falls, Idaho; Dylan Vranich scored four runs. Iggy Peters and Sam Murphy had two RBIs each, and Murphy had a a double. 

Wyatt Sharp had two hits and one of the Lakers’ three RBIs against pitcher Ashton Oliver, who added four hits and seven walks but just two earned runs. Cameron Sharp and Jacobe Sullenger had the other RBIs for Kalispell (8-20). 

47s 8, Premier Blues 7 

Down 5-3 going to the top of the fifth, the Black Gold 47s scored three times to take a 7-5 lead and held off Calgary. 

Nathan Prestwich hit an RBI triple that knotted the score at 5-5; Ayden Huculak followed with an RBI single and eventually scored on a sacrifice fly. 

Kade Hoglund had two doubles and scored three times for the 47s; Prestwich and Jace Kulyk each drove in two.