Keep the score: strikes, slugers and best times of the season

Glue all in the Keeping Score podcast, presented by Corwin Motors, I am your host Josh Amick. This week we have a dominant performance of Pitchers in Columbia Falls and Glacier, some rivalries on the route and softball diamonds and a lot of tennis to highlight.

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We will start things with a baseball game between Columbia Falls and Polson.

Jett Pitts threw a complete game with two goals on the way to achieve 15 batteries for a 5-0 win in Columbia Falls.

Pitts had an excellent control over seven innings, only went a dough and excluded every pirate in the line -up at least once.

Cooper Ross doubled and had two goals for Columbia Falls, with an RBI and run being achieved. Wyatt Dodson went 2-3 with two runs and a RBI, Reggie Sapa and Treysen Murphy, doubled.

The other dominant performance comes from the poster player of the week in the last week, Olivia Warriner, who collided 7 2: 3 on Tuesday, but she wasn't finished there. Warriner also broke a 4: 4 tie with a single with two runs and Half Glacier, a home-soft ball header from Butte, 6-4 and 5: 0.

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Warriner made Olivia Gibbons easier in the opener with one and two in the fourth inning and Butte 4: 1 on Reese Johnson's double double doubles. She got the next two bulldogs to end this threat.

In the second game, Warriner scattered six goals in four innings with two strikeouts; Ava Grady threw the last three innings and Fanning Three.

The RBI Ground from Cazz Rankosky broke a 0-0 draw in the third inning and triggered a four-run outbreak: the RBI single from Warriner made it 2-0, and the pack won two with 5: 0.

Glacier added another victory on Thursday and hit Big Sky 6: 4. Rankosky's two-run Homerun in the first inning for the Wolfpack, now 11: 2 and 7: 2 in Western AA games.

Olivia Gibbons and Karley Allen drove in the third inning with a single and double runs and set up glaciers with 4: 1. Olivia Warriner doubled and hit the fifth victim flying in all and Gibbons added an RBI single in the sixth.

In other softball action, my game of the week was a matchup between Flathead and Columbia Falls. What was a defensive game came to a tense, faulty seventh inning, at which Columbia Falls held the non-conference soft ball 8: 7 on Thursday at Kidsport at Kidsport at Kidsport.

Onnikka Lawrence scored for the wildcats and the Leadoff-Hitter Addy Bowler had three goals and scored two goals for the two-time defending champion a champions.

Flathead had Solo -Homeruns from Reese Conley, Mackenzie Brandt and Danica Hennell – before both teams scored four times in the seventh inning.

The wildcats scored two of their runs of mistakes before Kylie Gjesdal-Davis hit a single with two runs to record their team with 7: 3. Sydnee Burke brought in a sack fly by Kate Lewellen with Columbia Fall 'Final Run.

Flathead replied with a run with a mistake, Macey McIlhargeys RBi-Single and Olivia Nymans SAC Fly closed the deficit to 8-6.

Hennell brought McIlhargey with a two-out single, but the next batsle was ruled out to end it.

The Wildkats separated a few games at the Frenchtown Invitational and defeated Dillon 9-2 before they lost 15: 9 against Billings Central. Annika Reid went 3: 4 with three RBIs, including a triple, when the wild kets in the sixth inning scored six runs to beat the beavers.

Addy Bowler and Tayler Lingle added two goals for the Kats and each scored two runs, and Alexa Friske knocked in two runs. Kylie Gjesdal-Davis added a double and scored two runs when Columbia Falls scored 14 goals.

In the second game, the Rams took the lead 5-0 in the first inning, before the wildcats with four runs in the lower half of the inning, highlighted by Bella Mann's 2-Run double. Mann added another double in fourth and came by to score with a passed ball. Onnika Lawrence went 2: 4 with a double and two runs achieved.

Flathead dropped her doubleader with a butte on Saturday. Butte Pitcher Ashhlinn Mullaney only held three goals in game 1, in which Butte won 13: 1. Mackenzie Brandt recorded the only RBI.

In game 2, the bulldogs received all the runs that they needed in a first inning in seven runs on their way to their 15:4 win. Hennell had a 2-run single in the game to run the bravettes.

Other baseball messages to emphasize, Reed Boyer, Max Barone and Ryan Conklin combined on a one-hitter and Drew Queen in four runs to lead Whitefish over Troy with 11: 1 in five innings in the north.

The big inning of the Bulldogs was the third; Avery Caton had an RBI-based goal, Queen added a two-run single, and Conclin closed the uprising with an RBI double for a 7-1 lead.

Whitefish added another victory on Monday. Avery Caton had a monster game that hit a Homerun in the park, drove in six and started on the hill when the Bulldogs defeated the Browning Indians with 21: 1.

Caton later added a double when Whitefish (9-2) collected 18 goals that day, nine of which came in her 13-run inning.

Whitefish Boys stopped at their home track and won the team title at Arm Invitational on Saturday. The rival of the Bulldogs, Columbia Falls, won the girls' crown.

With Soli Bullemer, Columbia Falls won 98 points. The Whitefish Boys scored 101 points, with Columbia finishing 88.

Rachael Wilmot from Whitefish won the 100 meters in fast 12.66 seconds and the 400 in 58.38 – a best season and the best brand in class A. The Bulldogs also won the 3,200.

The Bulldog boys got a big day from Senior Simon Douglas – he won both in the 1,600 and 3,200, as well as Carson Gulick and Colby Minton. BigFork also had victories and PRS from Alex Ochs in the high jump and Austin Savik in the 400.

Cole Opre hit his personal record in pole vault with Missoula Sentinel Friday. OPRE loosened 14 feet, 7 inches and sits second in this event all over Montana. He was part of a glacier from Friday dual: the Wolfpack Boys won 84-66 and the girls, 88-51.

Glacier won from Ben Winters in ShotPut and Gabe Ackerly in 3,200. On the girls' pages of Glacier Breanna Barnes, a PR also hit in the pole vault and loosened 11-0 to win the event.

Rylee Bigelow helped the Wolfpack girl with victories in the discus and shot; Zeila Wagner won the 100 meters for Gletscher and Dacia Benkelman in the 400.

In tennis, the Whitefish Girls swept a few duals against Hamilton and Corvallis Friday.

Allie Shors won a few singles games for the Bulldogs, who defeated Hamilton 5-2 and Corvallis 6-1. In doubles, Camry Kelch and Maggie Mercer teamed up to win two games, as did Emy Hansen and Aubrey Talbot.

Lizzy Holden was part of two winners -Doppel -Duos and worked with Sophie McCreedy against Hamilton and Dessi Young against Corvallis.

This will complete the episode this week in the Keeping Score Podcast. I would like to thank our sponsor Corwin Motors and everyone else who coordinated it. Visit us next week if much more spring sports have to give for emphasis.

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