Twins baseball pounds Belgrade in season opener
The Twins flexed their offensive muscle, scoring 24 runs on 20 hits in a pair of one-sided wins against Belgrade.
Glacier (2-1) opened both games with big first innings, scoring four times in the opener and putting eight first-inning runs on the board in the nightcap. The Twins never trailed and ended the first game with two outs in the sixth inning by virtue of the 10-run rule.
Amidst all the scoring, Twins hurlers Terek Bistodeau and Skyler Warner combined on a two-hit shutout in the first contest. Bistodeau struck out six in four innings to earn the win.
Caleb Meehan went 2 for 4 in the opener, doubling twice and driving in four runs. Bistodeau and Jared Reynolds had three RBIs apiece in the second game.
Belgrade 000 000 — 0 2 5
Glacier 401 131 — 10 8 0
Jake Klasinke, Gunney Parsons (5) and Jeremiah Gray (B). Terek Bistodeau, Skyler Warner (5) and Quintin Schriver (G). W — Bistodeau. L — Klasinke.
BELGRADE — Klasinke 0-2, Cole Thomas 0-2, Gray 0-2, Machall Ryman 1-2, Jay Ferguran 0-1, Marces Verdeja 0-2, Parsons 0-2, Griffin Vaughn 0-2, Isiah Brandharst 1-1.
GLACIER — Tom Hellwig 0-3, Bistodeau 1-3, Warner 1-1, Caleb Meehan 2-4, Jared Reynolds 0-2, Tucker Blake 0-1, Matthew Morrison 0-3, Trey Gates 1-2, Brandon Thomas 0-0, Eli Taylor 1-4, Schriver 0-2, Nathan Hader 2-3.
2B — Meehan 2 (G). RBIs — Meehan 4, Taylor, Hader (G).
Belgrade 120 040 0 — 7 5 4
Glacier 802 301 x — 14 12 4
Cole Thomas and Jeremiah Gray (B). Matthew Morrison, Quintin Schriver (4), Eli Taylor (5) and Skyler Warner (G). W — Morrison. L — Thomas.
BELGRADE — Jake Klasinke 0-2, Thomas 1-2, Gray 0-4, Nate Marcelin 1-3, Weston Garcia 2-3, Griffin Vaughn 0-2, Jason Coltrin 0-2, Gunney Parsons 1-4, Zane Smith 0-2.
GLACIER — Warner 1-3, Terek Bistodeau 3-3, Nathan Hader 1-2, Jared Reynolds 1-4, Morrison 0-2, Tatum Hanks 0-1, Tom Hellwig 0-1, Schriver 0-1, Taylor 1-1, Brandon Thomas 3-3, Cody Campbell 0-0, Tucker Blake 0-4, Mason Laliberty 1-3, Luke Seymour 1-4.
2B — Bistodeau 2, Warner (G). RBIs — Klasinke, Garcia, Vaughn, Parsons, Smith (B); Bistodeau 3, Reynolds 3, Seymour 2, Hader, Thomas, Laliberty (G).