Mission Valley All-stars end season at state
The 15-year-old Mission Valley All-Stars finished the summer after the Babe Ruth All-Star Tournament last weekend in Whitefish and Columbia Falls. Back Row: Coach Scott Crawford, Dylan Evans, Zeke Yaqui, Coach Dan Gerhardt, Alex Killian, Mike Bournstein, Coach Arnold Sorrell, Tyler Delaney, Quaid Harlan, Front Row: Nick Crawford, Ryan Pablo, Lucas Gerhardt, Davin Sorrell, Barrett, Quinn Harlan.
WHITEFISH — The 15-year old Mission Valley Babe Ruth All-Stars finished up their summer at the state tournament last weekend. While they went winless at the tournament in four games, head coach Arnold Sorrell liked what he saw from the team.
“We don’t have the number of 15-year-olds this year,” Sorrell said. “They played really well against the older kids.”
Sorrell said he just had four 15-year olds on the team, which is chosen after the regular season of Babe Ruth baseball concludes.
“That’s a pretty good statement on how our baseball program is doing,” he said. “Credit goes to those 14-year-old kids.”
Mission Valley lost to Glendive 8-6, the Missoula Frontiers 7-2, Glacier 9-4 and Golden Triangle 13-6.
“There was no reason we couldn’t win any of those games,” Sorrell said. “There were a lot of high-scoring games in the tournament and we didn’t get ten-runned at all.”
Sorrell said that his pitching staff of Nick Crawford, Dylan Evans, Alex Killian, Davin Sorrell and Zeke Webster-Yaqui did a great job at the tournament.
“Our pitchers were doing great compared to the other teams up there,” Sorrell said.
Where the All-Stars struggled was closing out games.
“The tale of our team is we couldn’t finish a complete game,” Sorrell said.