Wolfpack softball rallies past C-Falls

Karley Allen’s RBI double tied the score in the sixth inning, and two batters later Taelor Holt hit a two-run single that lifted Glacier over Columbia Falls 11-9 in non-conference softball Tuesday at Glacier High School.

Holt’s second and third RBIs completed a comeback for the AA Wolfpack (8-3), who trailed 5-0 in the first, 8-6 in the fifth and 9-8 going to their half of the sixth.

The Class A Wildkats (4-3) got four RBIs from Kylie Gjesdal-Davis, including a two-run double in the first. Bella Mann followed with a double, and then Katie Bulawsky hit a two-run homer to center.

An RBI double by Holt and two-run home run by Ava Grady cut Glacier’s deficit to 5-3, but the Pack didn’t catch the Kats until the end despite three runs in the sixth.

Alexa Friske singled in a run to put C-Falls up 8-6 in the fourth; Glacier drew even in the fifth thanks to back-to-back doubles by Holt and Grady and a sac fly from Sophia Frederick.

Gjesdal-Davis squeezed home Alexa Friske in the sixth inning for a short-lived 9-8 lead. After the Pack rallied again, Grady threw a scoreless seventh inning, fanning two.

C-Falls 520 101 0 - 9 11 4

Glacier 303 023 x - 11 13 2

Katie Bulawsky, Ella Branstetter (5) and Kendal Moultray. Chloe Farrell, Olivia Warriner (3), Ava Grady (7) and Emma Smith.

COLUMBIA FALLS — Kate Lewellen 0-3, Branstetter 0-1, Alexa Frske 3-4, Onnika Lawrence 1-4, Kylie Gjesdal-Davis 2-2, Bella Mann 1-4, Bulawsky 1-4, Ella Timlick 0-3, Moultray 2-3, Chevelle Bedford 0-1, Kylor Geitzen 1-4.

GLACIER — Karley Allen 1-4, Warriner 3-4, Taelor Holt 3-3, Grady 3-4, Smith 1-3, Sophia Frederick 0-3, Addy Cunningham 1-3, Farrell 0-2, Tensley Conner 0-1, Lanee Anderson 1-1, Avery Bailey 0-0.

2B — Mann, Moultray, Gjesdal-Davis, Holt 2, Allen, Grady, Warrner. HR — Bulawsky, Grady. RBIs — Gjesdal-Davis 4, Bulawsky 2, Mann, Lawrence, Friske, Grady 4, Holt 3, Allen.

Libby 13, Whitefish 2

WHITEFISH — Leah Rusdal hit a two-run home run, Carmen Kohler threw four innings of hitless relief and Libby put away Northwest A rival Whitefish in six innings.

Weslee MacDonald’s two-run single erased a 2-1 Whitefish lead in the third inning, and the Loggers blew the game open with seven runs in the fifth, all after two were out: Tessa Purdy hit a two-run double, Rossi Baney followed with a triple and Rusdal added a two-run double for a 10-2 lead. The game ended early under the mercy rule.

Bently Houston had two hits and scored three times from the leadoff spot for Libby. Purdy also had a triple for the Loggers (4-2).

Baylee Hyland and Elyse Sharpnack drove in runs for Whitefish (0-5-1).

Kohler came on for starter Maddie Willis in the third inning and allowed four walks, hit batter and struck out eight. Willis allowed five hits and a walk in her two innings of work. She struck out two.