2011 Great Falls Chargers News
April 30, 2011
BILLINGS— The Great Falls Chargers rebounded from a 11-1 loss in the first game to take a 2-2 tie into the bottom of the sixth inning before falling 3-2 in the second game of a non-conference doubleheader to the Billings Scarlets.
Tanner Watson was effective on the mound, going the distance while allowing only two earned runs while striking out seven.
The Scarlets came out flat in the first game, with the Scarlets' Joe Barta allowing only one hit over five innings. Tyson Patterson went the first three innings for Great Falls, allowing six runs, five earned. Sam Wingerter finished the game, allowing five runs but none earned in the fourth and fifth innings, before the game ended with the ten-run mercy rule.
April 16, 2011
MISSOULA— Trevor Johnson drove in five runs with three hits and Cayden Napierala had three RBIs as the Great Falls Chargers opened the Legion baseball season Saturday afternoon with a 20-12 victory over the defending state champion Missoula Mavericks.
The host Mavericks took the second game of the nonleague twinbille, 6-4, in a rematch of last year’s State AA championship game.
The Chargers trailed 7-1 after three innings in the opener.
“After we got through the nerves a bit, we started hitting the baseball,” said Great Falls manager Aaron Johnson. “And then the hitting got contagious.”
The Chargers scored four times in the fourth and five times in the fifth. Then in the top of the sixth, the Great Falls club plated eight runs.
Tanner Watson gained the pitching victory in relief. Hunter Carlyon went 4-for-5. Watson and Spenser Hortick had two RBIs apiece.
In the second game, Hortick drove in three more runs, but Missoula’s Michael Melugin pitched a six-hitter against the Chargers. Andrew Sopko had two RBIs for the Mavs, while Watson and Taylor Davis had two hits apiece for Great Falls.
