Millan, McLaughlin homer in Range Riders rout
Daily Inter Lake | Daily Inter-Lake | UPDATED 1 week, 2 days AGO
GREAT FALLS — Jake Millan and JD McLaughlin hit home runs and the Glacier Range Riders scored six runs in the first inning of a 14-1 rout of Great Falls in Pioneer League baseball Tuesday evening.
Millan’s solo homer in the second put the Range Riders (15-10) up 7-0; McLaughlin hit a two-run shot in the fourth to make it 11-0. Glacier put up crooked numbers in three of the first four innings, then tacked on three more runs in the ninth thanks to back-to-back doubles from Andrew Collins and Donovan Ratfield.
Collins, hitting in the two-hole, also had an RBI triple and drew a bases-loaded walk during that big first inning. He hit a sacrifice fly in the third and finished with four runs batted in.
Carson Hornung rapped out two doubles, as did Ratfield.
All this backed the pitching of Chris Canada, Davis Pratt and Jacob Hasty. Canada went 4 2-3 innings, allowing three hits and four walks to the Voyagers (9-16). He struck out seven. Davis Pratt came on in the fifth and pitched through the eighth inning, allowin gone hit and two walks with six strikeouts.
Hasty worked around a hit and a walk in a scoreless ninth inning.
The teams battle again Wednesday and Thursday, before the Range Riders start a nine-game home stand Friday.
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Chris Canada, Davis Pratt (5), Jacob Hasty and Donovan Ratfield. Zach Horwith, Brock Lucas, Kevin Worek, Eumir Sepulveda and Antonio Barranca.
GLACIER RANGE RIDERS — Alex Fernands 2-3, Andrew Collins 2-4, Ratfield 3-6, Carson Hornung 2-6, Jake Millan 1-3, JD McLaughlin 1-4, Carson Garner 0-3, Logan Beard 1-4, Fleix 2-4.
GREAT FALLS VOYAGERS — Aidan Redahan 2-4, Zak Blaszak 0-2, Kyle Schmack 0-2, Anthony Manisero 0-1, Tommy Specht 0-4, Anthony Swenda 2-4, Trey Cruz 0-4, Ethan Ott 1-3, Barranca 0-4, Vincent Temesvary 0-3.
2B — Ratfield 2, Hornung 2, Felix, Fernandes, Collins. 3B — Collins. HR — Millan (6), McLaughlin (3). RBIs — Collins 4, Ratfield 3, McLaughlin 2, Fernandes, Millan, Beard, Felix, Ott.