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10 I The Lovell Chronicle I July 12, 2012
CHRONICLE
BY DAVID .PECK
Concluding a rugged stretch
that saw them play 18 games in
about three weeks, the Lovell
Mustangs won one of three
games at the Douglas wood bat
tournament over the weekend.
The Mustangs opened play
against the Torrington Tigers
Friday and fell 11-3 on a tourna-
ment eight-run rule.
The game was tied 2-2 after
three innings as Lovell start-
ing pitcher Steven Pickett held
the Tiger bats at bay, and Tor-
rington led only 3-2 with two
outs in the fourth until a double
cleared the bases. A pair of er-
rors hurt the Mustangs during
the four-run Torrington fourth,
coach Ray Peterson said. Tor-
rington plated five more runs in
the fifth and at that point the
game was called.
Lovell scored a run in the
first on an RBI single by McK-
ayan May, another in the third
on a run-scoring double by Dan-
iel Call and a third run in the
fourth on a Demitrie Montuy
single.
"Errors hurt us Friday, and a
lack of consistency at the plate,"
Peterson said.
WIN OVER RIVERTON
Playing again Saturday
morning, Lovell edged the River-
ton Raiders 14-12 in a wild and
wooly game that saw the Mus-
tangs claw from behind.
Lovell scored first with a pair
in the top of the first on a two-
run single by Call and added an-
other in the second on an RBI
double by Dillon Pickett, but Ri-
verton got to Dillon (the starting
pitcher) for three in the first in-
ning, five in the second and one
more in the third to lead 9-3.
The Mustangs got back
into the game with three runs
in the top of the fourth as Dil-
lon Pickett, Kyle Peterson and
May rapped consecutive singles
and came around to score. Dillon
Pickett shut the Raiders down
1-2-3 in the bottom of the frame,
and the Mustangs plated six in
the top of the fifth to lead 12-9.
CJ Murphey got the rally
started with a single, and after
Montuy walked, Steven Pickett
doubled home Murphey and Dil-
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tuy and brother Steven. Kyle Pe-
terson singled to score Dillon,
and May tripled home Peterson,
then scored the 12th run later in
the inning.
Riverton rallied for three in
the bottom of the fifth to knot the
score 12-12, but Lovell scored
two in the top of the sixth to lead
again, then blanked the Raiders
in the bottom of the inning.
Montuy ended up scoring the
go-ahead run in the top of the
sixth when he was hit by a pitch
with one out. Steven Pickett sin-
gled, and with two outs, Peter-
son walked to load the bases.
May then doubled home Montuy
and Pickett to put the Mustangs
on top.
Dillon Pickett went the dis-
tance on the mound for the Mus-
tangs to pick up the win.
"Our bats came alive and
brought people around the bas-
es," Peterson said. "That was
good to see. Even the bottom of
the order was doing their job.
"We just kind of showed
more maturity than we have all
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DAVID PECK
Lovell Mustang Kyle Peterson races around first base on a long
rip to the outfield against the Powell Pioneers last Tuesday,
July 3. The Mustangs are competing in the Billings Halos
tournament this weekend.
season long, picking each other
up."
After the Friday and Satur-
day pool games, the Mustangs
met Rawlins in the fifth-place
game earlySunday morning,
falling to the Generals 8-2.
Mustang errors helped the
Generals plate four runs in the
top of the first inning, and they
added another run in the sec-
ond, two in the fourth and one
in the sixth. Call started on the
mound for the Mustangs and
was relieved by May in the sec-
ond. Brandon Dickson finished
up later in the game.
Lovell scored a run in the
first when Peterson singled and
scored on a May single and an-
other in the fifth when Montuy
walked and scored on a Peterson
sacrifice fly.
"We got there early and I
thought we were ready to go,"
Coach Peterson said. "We had
beaten them in Green River. But
their pitcher (Adam McFarland)
had a really good breaking ball
to go with his fastball. He was a
good ballplayer.
"We seemed to make errors
at the worst times, when we
should have been out of an in-
ning."
In an earlier conference dou-
bleheader last Tuesday, July 3,
Lovell fell to Powell 24-5 and
10-0 at the ballpark in Cowley.
HOME GAME TUESDAY
Now 6-24, the Mustangs will
play in the Billings Halos tour-
nament this Thursday, Friday
and Saturday in Billings, then
will host the Sheridan Jets next
Tuesday, July 17, at i and 3 p.m.
Peterson said the Mustangs
will play, the Billings Angels
Thursday at 10:30 a.m. and the
Cody Cubs at i p.m. and then on
Friday will take on the Billings
Halos at 10:30 and Livingston,
Mont., at 1 p.m. before bracket
play Saturday during this week-
end's tournament. Four of six
tournament teams will advance
to bracket play.
DAVID PECK
A's catcher Dakota Bond readies for a play at the plate as a
Thermopolis player leaps for home during the A's 11-10 win
over Thermop Saturday in Cowley to end the regular season.
The Lovell Babe Ruth all-
star team will head into district
tournament action this week at
the 13-15-year-old tournament in
Powell.
Coaches Jordan Mickelson
and Scott Everheart have melded
the Rockies and the A's together
to form the all-star squad.
The all-stars are scheduled
to take on a Worland-Thermopo-
lis-Greybull team known as Big
Horn Basin today (Thursday) at
4 p.m., then will meet host Powell
Friday at 11:30 a.m. and Cody
Saturday at 11:30, as well.
League manager Ray Peter-
son said three of the four teams
will advance to the state tourna-
ment in Gillette July 18-21.
The North Big Horn Barra-
cudas hit the water at the Powell
Aquatic Center June 30 and July
1 at the Wild West Challenge in
preparation for the Wyoming
State Summer meet and came
away with many personal records
and some new summer Q-times.
RESULTS
Colby Doughty (10): 100y Free 1:30.94 (-1.99),
1st; 200y Free 3:19.821 (-10.27), 2nd; 50y Back
51.72, 2nd; 50y Breast 53.11-Q, 2nd; 50y Free
40.33 (-1.29), 1st; 100y Breast 2:00.58 (-4.70), 2nd;
100 Y Back 1:55.69, 1st.
Emily Doughty (13): 100y Free 1:08.31-Q, 10th;
200y Free 2:33.84-Q (0.64), 7th; 100y Back
1:23.15Y; 20Oy IM 2:54.17-Q (-0.21), 6th; 100y
Breast 1:35.62 (-3.08); 1O00y Free 14.33.09,
3rd; 50y Free 30.85-Q (-0.31), 9th; 200y Breast
3:30.55, 8th; 500y Free 6:52.49 (-36.32), 3rd. Emily
has also qualified in the 1O0y Back.
Katelyn Doughty (13): 100y Free 1:08.16-Q
(-2.52), 9th; 200y Free 2:39.88 (-1.64), 8th; 100
Back 1:21.45 (-0.59), 10th; 200 IM 3:01.17 (-2.18),
8th; 100y Breast 1:35.26 (-10.96); 50y Free 30.97-
Q (-1.0O); 200y Back 3:03.55.
Anna Fuller (9): 100y Free 1:25.00-Q (-5.88),
1st; 200y Free 3:08.49-Q (-8.63), 1st; 50y Back
51.03, 2nd; 50y Breast 52.70-Q, 1st; 50y Free
39.06-Q (-0.33), 2nd; 100y Breast 1:56.51-Q, 1st;
100y Back 1:49.63 (-6.39), 1st; 5O0y Free 8:37.70
(-16.80), 1st.
Jared Fuller (11): 100y Free 1:25.15, 3rd; 200y Free
3:02.76 (-9.32), 2nd; 50y Back 44.45, 3rd; 200y IM
3:37.35, 3rd; 50 Breast 50.59, 3rd; 50y Free 36.45,
3rd; 50y Fly 46.00 (-0.82), 3rd; 100y Breast 1:53.72
(-1.73), 3rd; 100y Back 1:38.41 (-0.06), 2nd.
Ross Fuller: 200y Free 2:21.18 (-0.16), 3rd; 100y
Breast 1:15.38-Q, 2nd; 1000y Free 14:20.51, 2nd.
Ross has also qualified in the 50y and 100y Freestyle.
Seth Fuller (14): 10Oy Free 1:04.85-Q (-1.91), 5th;
200y Free 2:35.91 (2.78), 5th; 100y Back 1:18.13
(-0.49), 4th; 200y IM 2:56.87 (-2.64), 4th; 100y
Breast 1:39.34, 6th; 50y Free 29.22-Q (-0.90), 7th;
200y Breast 3:34.87 (-9.02), 4th; 2O0y Back 2:47.34
(-9.63), 4th.
Alyasa Schneider (13): 100y Free 1:07.26-Q,
6th; 200y Free 2:32.85-Q (-0.38), 4th; 100y Back
1:19.43-Q (0.75), 8th; 10Oy Breast 1:31.95, 10th;
50y Free 29.84-Q, 7th; 200y Breast 3:17.06 (-6.98),
6th; 200y Back 2:58.64 (-7.14), 10th. Aly has also
qualified in the 20Oy IM.
BY DAVID PECK
The North Big Horn
9-10-year-old Little League
all-star team won one of three
games at the Twin Cities Tour-
nament in Powell Friday and
Saturday.
Coach Ryan Mangus said
the North Big Horn squad fell to
the Cody B team Friday morn-
ing, 7-3, and the Powell A team
Friday afternoon, 20-5, in pool
play. They clobbered the Powell
B team 17-3 in the fifth-place
game Saturday.
In game one Friday, NBH
coaches used four pitchers, Ka-
leb Snyder, Thomas Hinckley,
CJ Pickett and Coy Trainor, to
limit the Cody run production.
Game two saw mound duties by
Zane Horrocks, Lane Herman,
Tyler Nichols, Aden Mayes and
Ezra Harlow.
North Big Horn led Powell A
5-0 early and were in the game
trailing 7-5 after two before
Powell exploded in the third.
Saturday was a different
story as North Big Horn pound-
ed away at Powell B pitching to
score 17 runs. Snyder was 3-3
with a triple, double, single and
three runs batted in. Horrocks
was also 3-3, and Mayes rapped
a three-run double.
Nichols, Harlow and Snyder
win
DAvm PECK
Zane Horrocks of the North Big Horn 9-10-year-old Little
League Baseball team slides into second with a stolen base
during North Big Horn's loss to the Powell A team Friday
afternoon at the Twin Cities Tournament.
shared pitching duties.
"We really came back
strong," Mangus said. "We
played hard. Everybody was hit-
ting the ball."
DISTRICT TOURNEY
The 9-10-year-old all-stars
were scheduled to begin district
tournament pool play Wednes-
day at 6 p.m. in Cody, meeting
the Powell all-stars. The sec-
ond pool game is scheduled for
tonight (Thursday) at 6 p.m.
against Cody in Cody. District
tournament bracket games are
scheduled for Tuesday through
Thursday, July 17-19, in Cody,
with the top two teams advanc-
ing to the state tournament July
25-28 in Green River.
Little League stars win three of four in Cody
BY DAVID PECK
The North Big Horn
ll-12-year-old Little League
all-star baseball team battled to
a 3-1 record at the Twin Cities
Tournament in Cody Friday and
Saturday, placing second.
Coach John Schneider said
the NBH squad crushed Sheri-
dan 21-1 and the Cody B team
13-4 on Friday, then edged Ri-
verton 4-2 Saturday morning to
reach the championship game,
falling to the Cody Stampede
8-2 in the title game.
The Sheridan game was tied
0-0 after three innings Friday,
but the North Big Horn stars
plated six runs in the top of
the fourth and 15 in the sixth,
blasting four home runs in the
process: a grand slam by Brent
Snyder, two two-run homers by
Wyatt Horrocks and a three-run.
shot by Garrett Vezain.
Jeremy Schneider got the
start on the mound for NBH,
and Lathan May pitched in re-
lief.
North Big Horn jumped on
top early in game two Friday,
scoring seven runs in the bot-
tom of the first inning to lead
Cody 7-0, then added two runs
each in the second, third and
fourth to win 13-4.
Horrocks started for NBH,
and Ethan Price pitched in re-
lief. Tristan Jewell went 3-3 at
the plate, Price was 2-2 and Jer-
emy Schneider and Horrocks hit
home runs, Schneider a three-
run shot.
Early Saturday morn-
ing, Lovell and Riverton locked
horns in a pitchers' dual. Brent
Snyder pitched six strong in-
nings for North Big Horn to get
the win, and the game was tied
1-1 going into the bottom of the
fifth when NBH plated three
runs to lead 4-1. Schneider
rapped a single during the rally,
followed by a Horrocks triple.
Riverton scored one run
in the sixth before Snyder
slammed the door.
The Cody A team - the
Stampede - Won the champion-
ship game Saturday afternoon,
8-2. Cody built a 6-0 lead after
four innings before North Big
Horn scored two in the fifth to
make it interesting. Lovell had
only two hits in the game, Coach
Schneider said. Jeremy Schnei-
der and Horrocks shared pitch-
ing duties for the NBH stars.
"These kids can hit the
ball," Coach Schneider said of
the Cody squad. "The only way
we can beat them is to play
mistake-free ball. They've been
playing since January."
The all-stars are partici-
pating in the district tourna-
ment this week, playing Powell
Wednesday and Cody tonight
(Thursday) in Cody at 6 p.m.
in pool play. Bracket play runs
Tuesday through Thursday,
July 17-19, in Cody.
Schneider said he would like
to thank assistant coaches John
Dickerson, Stacey Horrocks and
Keith McIntosh for their work
with the team.
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