{"id":1948788,"date":"2025-08-08T07:05:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T07:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1948788"},"modified":"2025-08-08T07:05:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T07:05:08","slug":"missoula-slips-billings-royals-eliminated-on-day-2-of-aa-northwest-regional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/missoula-slips-billings-royals-eliminated-on-day-2-of-aa-northwest-regional\/","title":{"rendered":"Missoula slips, Billings Royals eliminated on Day 2 of AA Northwest Regional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>BILLINGS \u2014 After a rousing win in their tournament opener a day earlier, the Missoula Mavericks slipped into the loser-out bracket with a second-round defeat to Gillette, Wyo., on Thursday at the Class AA American Legion Northwest Regional at Dehler Park.<\/p>\n<p>Missoula, Montana&#8217;s back-to-back state champion, fell behind early and couldn&#8217;t reach all the way back in a 4-3 loss, which means the Mavericks will be playing for their tournament lives going forward.<\/p>\n<p><b>WATCH THURSDAY&#8217;S HIGHLIGHTS:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"VideoEnhancement\" data-video-disable-history=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>Missoula slips, Billings Royals eliminated on Day 2 of Class AA Northwest Regional<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Mavs fell behind by three runs after the first inning, as Gillette capitalized on a throwing error and as Ethan Hecker and Riley Hawk delivered RBI singles. <\/p>\n<p>Missoula countered with a run in the top of the third on a sacrifice fly from Rylan Davis, but Gillette tacked on a run in their half of the inning to make it a 4-1 game.<\/p>\n<p>Bryce Ostrom scored for the Mavericks on a Gillette fielding error in the fifth, and Missoula added another run later in the inning as Davis singled in Carter Taylor to close the gap to 4-3.<\/p>\n<p class=\"cms-textAlign-center\"><b>Related<\/b>: <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.montanasports.com\/sports\/baseball\/2025-class-aa-legion-baseball-northwest-regional-tournament-scores-and-pairings\" target=\"_blank\">2025 Class AA Legion baseball Northwest Regional tournament scores and pairings<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Missoula had some momentum, but a storm delayed the game in the top of the sixth. Play soon resumed, but the Mavericks were unable to generate any runs in the final two innings.<\/p>\n<p>The Mavs slipped into loser-out action Friday at 9:30 a.m., when they&#8217;ll take on Portland, Ore. <\/p>\n<p>Portland eliminated Montana&#8217;s other tournament representatives, the Billings Royals, by a 14-11 score earlier Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The Royals jumped out to a two-run lead thanks to a four-run outburst in the top of the second, highlighted by Cooper Ballew&#8217;s two-run triple. But the lead was short lived.<\/p>\n<p>Portland answered with two in the bottom half of the second on a two-run home run by Connor Parry, then tacked on six runs in the third as Kainoa Santiago came through with a two-run double in the inning. <\/p>\n<p>Gabe Coltman added a three-run home run for Portland in the fifth. <\/p>\n<p>The Royals loaded the bases with nobody out in the seventh and pushed four runs across, as Camden Wilson and Brady Baker knocked in runs. But it wasn&#8217;t enough for Billings to extend its season.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n    window.fbAsyncInit = function() {\n    FB.init({\n        appId : '1763516293783419',\n    xfbml : true,\n    version : 'v2.9'\n    });\n    };\n    (function(d, s, id){\n    var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n    if (d.getElementById(id)) {return;}\n    js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n    js.src = \"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js\";\n    js.async = true;\n    fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n    }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));\n<\/script><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.montanasports.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BILLINGS \u2014 After a rousing win in their tournament opener a day earlier, the Missoula Mavericks slipped into the loser-out bracket with a second-round defeat to Gillette, Wyo., on Thursday at the Class AA American Legion Northwest Regional at Dehler Park. Missoula, Montana&#8217;s back-to-back state champion, fell behind early and couldn&#8217;t reach all the way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1948789,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[340504,340505,340506,340507,340508,340509,340510],"class_list":["post-1948788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-american-legion-baseball-region-7-tournament","tag-billings-royals","tag-class-aa-northwest-regional","tag-dehler-park","tag-legion-baseball","tag-missoula-mavericks","tag-montana-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Missoula-slips-Billings-Royals-eliminated-on-Day-2-of-AA.com2F472F272Fb31beffd4055b35a4d1d6c8973232Fo.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1948788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1948788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1948789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1948788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1948788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1948788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}