Glacier drops pair to Helena schools
Glacier pitcher Ella Farrell (12) fires to first base after fielding a ground ball back to the mound against Helena Capital at Glacier High School on Friday, April 15. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Glacier pitcher Ella Farrell (12) delivers in the first inning against Helena Capital at Glacier High School on Friday, April 15. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Glacier first baseman Teagan Powell (18) fields a grounder and heads to first for the putout against Helena Capital at Glacier High School on Friday, April 15. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Glacier head coach Abby Connolly has a meeting on the mound with the Wolfpack infield against Helena Capital on Friday, April 15. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Glacier's Sammie Labrum (1) connects on a single into right field in the third inning against Helena Capital at Glacier High School on Friday, April 15. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Glacier lost a pitchers’ duel to Helena Capital, then got out-hit by Helena High, dropping a pair of Western AA softball games at the Glacier fields.
Nyeala Herndon outdueled Glacier’s Ella Farrell as Capital won the first game 5-1; in the second game Brooke Richardson and Ashley Lamping had four hits each to lead the Bengals to a 9-3 win.
Capital 5, Glacier 1
Herndon and Farrell each allowed four hits, though Capital took advantage of eight walks and seven errors on the Pack.
Herndon fanned eight; Farrell struck out seven, and just two of her five runs allowed were earned.
Olivia Gibbons brought home Glacier’s lone run with a single in the sixth inning.
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Nyeala Herndon and Taylor Sayers. Ella Farrell and Brooklyn Imperato, Olivia Gibbons.
HELENA CAPITAL — Anna Cockhill 0-2, Ashley King 0-2, Rylee Solan 0-0, KKathryn Emmert 1-3, Sayers 2-4, Amanda Nettleton 1-4, Herndon 0-4, McKenna Moore 0-2, Erin Hirschi 0-0, Riley Chandler 0-2, Paige O’Hara 0-3.
GLACIER — Sammie Labrum 2-4, Emma Cooke 0-2, Zoey Allen 0-3, Farrell 1-3, Avery Anderson 0-1, Paishance Haller 0-0, Imperato 0-2, Gibbons 1-1, Teagan Powell 0-3, Morgan Vivian 0-2, Mady Osler 0-1, Alli Kernan 0-2, Nakiah Persinger 0-1, Bella Hodous 0-0.
RBIs — Sayers, Herndon, Gibbons.
Helena 9, Glacier 3
Glacier led 2-0 early on Paishance Haller’s bases-loaded single in the first inning, only to see Helena up for good, 3-2, on Ashlyn Lamping’s 2-run double in the third.
The gap grew to 4-2 when Lamping hit an RBI triple in the fifth, then scored on a passed ball for her third run.
Richardson’s third hit was an RBI double in the sixth, and she hit a run-scoring single in the seventh. Glacier’s final run came on an RBI groundout from Emma Cooke that scored Gibbons, who’d tripled.
Gibbons also started on the mound for Glacier, and allowed four hits, two walks and three innings.
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Faith Howard and Kendall Klemp, K. McKay (3). Gibbons, Farrell (4), Persinger (6) and Imperato.
HELENA — Kylee Wetzel 0-3, Madi Lamping 0-3, Brooke Richardson 4-5, Ashley Koenig 0-0, Klemp 2-5, Ashlyn Lamping 4-4, Maloree English 0-3, Makenna Campbell 0-2, K Seliskar 0-0, Audri Aakre 1-4, Kalley May 0-3, Kylee Gardipee 0-0.
GLACIER — Labrum 0-3, Gibbons 2-3, Farrell 0-3, Cooke 1-2, Haller 1-3, Persinger 0-0, Anderson 1-3, Vivian 0-1, Powell 0-2, Osler 0-2, Allen 0-1, Kernan 0-2.
2B — Richardson, A Lamping. 3B — A. Lamping, Gibbons. RBIs — A. Lambing 3, Richardson 2, Aakre, Klemp.
