Glacier's bats carry club on road trip

The Glacier Twins AA opened their

12-day road trip on the good foot June 15 with a 11-10 victory over

the Spokane, Wash., Blue Devils.

Glacier spotted Spokane an eight run

lead but managed to work their way back into the Legion baseball

game by the eighth inning.

Geoff Streeter hit a two-run single for

the go-ahead run.

“Spokane is a good baseball club,”

Twins coach Lindsay Fansler said. “It was a good win for us.

Anytime you start a road trip with a win is good.”

The Twins traveled to Wanatchee, Wash.,

the next day for the Apple Valley tournament.

They lost the opener to Gresham, Ore.

5-7. Again, the Twins let a team jump out to an early start after

spotting Gresham five runs in the first inning.

“We climbed back into it but we ran out

of time,” Fansler said.

Glacier picked up a 2-1 win over host

Apple Valley in extra innings. Zach Maassen pitched a complete game

allowing only four hits and one run. Cody Elek had a sacrifice fly

and Chris King hit an RBI single for the winning run.

Glacier closed the tourney with losses

to two Seattle clubs.

Against the Seattle Select team,

Glacier again gave up 11 runs in the opening frame before fighting

back to 13-9. The game was called after six innings and 2 1/2

hours.

“We worked our way back, but ran out of

time,” Fanslar said.

They wrapped up with an 0-8 loss to

Toyota Baseball from Seattle.

“Offensively, we produced except in

that last game,” Fansler said. “With this conference stretch coming

up our pitchers have to give us a chance.”

Fansler said that falling behind early

and playing catch-up won’t lead to many wins.

“It’s been inopportune errors and our

pitchers inability to throw quality strikes.”

The team looks to regroup at Missoula

today in a conference game against the Mavericks. They play

Missoula again on June 23.