A Lakers win 2 Saturday in Pullman
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PULLMAN, Wash. — After dropping their opener. the Kalispell A Lakers closed the Palouse Summer Series with a flourish, winning twice Saturday to cap a 3-1 baseball weekend.
The 12-10 win over Kennewick A Phantoms and 11-9 decision over the Palouse Patriots marked the A Lakers’ second and third victories of the season, and against Kennewick they rallied from a 10-5 deficit in the fourth inning.
A Lakers 12, Phantoms 10
John Seiff started a three-run rally in the fifth inning with an RBI single, and James Root followed with another base hit to drive in two, cutting the gap to 10-8.
Blake Paulson’s one-out triple started a four-run sixth inning for the Lakers; Cameron Sharp hit a two-run double to knot it up, and Seiff’s two-out, two-run single broke the tie.
Ian Wilcox then worked around three walks in a scoreless bottom of the sixth and the game ended there for time. Wilcox threw two scoreless innings, fanning two.
Paulson had three hits, including a double, and scored three runs; Sharp had two doubles and scored twice, and Jacobe Sullenger had a double among has two hits.
A Lakers 11, Patriots 9
This time the opponent rallied, eating up all of a 7-0 lead Kalispell had built in the second inning.
The Lakers (3-7) went back ahead, 8-7, in the fourth thanks to a walk, single and two more walks — the last one to Lincoln St. Jean, scoring Sullenger.
They added two runs in the fifth — Luke Driear hit an RBI double and came in on Paulsen’s single — and led 11-8 after Dustin Gladeau’s sacrifice fly in the top of the seventh.
Gladeau, who came on in relief in the third inning, threw four innings of one-hit ball. He allowed five walks and two runs, one earned. He struck out one.
Paulsen again had three hits; Cameron Sharp and Madden Carrier added doubles. Wyatt Sharp hit a two-run single as the Lakers went 3-0 in the first, and his fly ball that fell for an error plated two runs for a 7-0 lead in the second.
Driear scored three times.
The A Lakers’ next action is Monday in Whitefish against the Glacier Twins, with first pitch at 5 p.m.