Range Riders’ ninth-inning rally falls short
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The Glacier Range Riders made one late push Sunday afternoon, but the comeback fell just short in a 10-8 loss to the Ogden Raptors at Glacier Bank Park in Pioneer League Baseball.
Ogden (29-19) took control early with three runs in the third inning. Cole Jordan drove in the first run before Kyler Stancato lined an RBI double and Carmine Lane added another with a groundout.
The Raptors extended the lead to 4-0 in the fourth, but Brock Vradenburg answered with a two-run homer, his fourth of the season, to get Glacier (29-19) on the board.
In the fifth, Ogden responded again as Lane added another RBI before Colson Lawrence blasted his 16th home run of the season, a two-run shot that stretched the lead to 7-2. The longball left Lawrence tied with Billings AJ Shaver for the Pioneer League lead with 68 RBIs, while ranking among the league leaders in home runs.
Glacier continued to chip away. Johnny Luetzow drove in a run with a single in the fifth, and Alex Fernandes doubled home another in the seventh, cutting the deficit to 7-4.
The Raptors added three insurance runs in the ninth, but the Range Riders didn’t go quietly.
Andrew Collins led off the bottom half with a solo homer before Carson Garner followed with his own to score three runs. The rally ended there.
Fernanes, Joe McLaughlin and Logan Beard each collected two hits, as both teams finished with 11.
The Range Riders continue their season on the road Tuesday against the Missoula PaddleHeads at 6:35 p.m.
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Glacier 000 210 104 - 8 11 0
Parker McMan, Ira Austin IV (6), Kyle Lewis (8), Landon Riley (9) and H Hodson. Cole Cressend, Evan Langston (3), Chris Canada (4), Lance Wade (6), Alex Bustamante (7), Connor Housley (9), Jacob Hasty (9), and Johnny Luetzow.
OGDEN RAPTORS — Chase Valentine 0-5, Cole Jordan 1-3, Kyler Stancato 3-5, Carmine Lane 2-4, Sebastian Greico 1-3, Colson Lawrence 2-4, Dylan Wilkinson 1-4, Dodson 0-4, Efrain Manzo 1-3.
GLACIER RANGE RIDERS — Alex Fernandes 2-5, Joe McLaughlin 2-5, Carson Garner 1-4, Brock Vradenburg 1-5, Jacob Steele 0-4, Carson Hornung 1-4, Logan Beard 2-4, Andrew Collins 1-4, Luetzow 1-2.
2B — Stancato, Wilkinson, Manzo. Fernandes. HR — Lawrence (16). Garner (7), Vradenburg (4), Collins (2). RBIs — Lane 3, Lawrence 2, Wilkinson 2, Manzo, Jordan, Stancato. Garner 3, Vradenburg 2, Fernandes, Collins, Luetzow.