Twins split opening-day games at Church Tournament

Luke White had three homeruns to wrap up the first day of play at the Dwight Church Tournament at Harris Field, a solo moonshot in the Twins' opening 5-1 win against Nampa before smacking two against Southridge. L-C mounted a comeback in the seventh against the Bandits, but were unable to maintain momentum and fell 7-6.

"We gotta finish baseball games, we need to score when it's tough, when the pressures on," Twins coach Kyle Blackwell said. "(Southridge is) a really good club, in some respects they had our number. Those are the types of teams we need to beat and I think we're perfectly capable of that. More so, we need to let them know (that we're going to) fight."

In the second game, the Twins (8-2) led 5-3 heading into the top of the sixth, but allowed Southridge to score four runs before wrapping up the visiting half of the inning.

"Munoz pitched a good game, he competed with all of those batters," Blackwell said. "We gotta pick up the baseball behind him."

The score didn't change from 7-5 until the bottom of the seventh, when Chandler Tibbets hit a triple to land on base. A double from Kole Olson allowed Tibbets to score in what was "a little bit of fight," according to Blackwell.

The game ended two outs later with a pop fly and a ground-out.

"I'm more concerned with how they hit when the pressure's on than how they hit when we're up eight-nothing," Blackwell said.

• Nampa 000 010 0-1 4 0
• L-C Twins 300 002 x-5 9 1
• Hibbard and Odell. Tyler Poe, Wade (6) and Cole Grijalva.
• Nampa hits - Tuttle, Bernal, Hibbard, Coon.
• Twins hits - Wade 2 (2B), Nunoz 2 (2B), White (HR) Moore, Tibbets, Grijalva, Olson (2B).---
• Southridge 200 014 0-7 12 0
• L-C Twins 023 000 1-6 11 2
• Black, Tool (3) and Karchurres. Nunoz and Jackson Fuller.
• Southridge hits - Harvey, Grigg, Hailey 3, Harvey, Sanders, Karchurres 2, Grade 2 (2B).
• L-C Twins hits -Robinson 2 (2B), Nunoz, White 2 (2 HR), Tibbets 3 (3B), Powell, Ford, Olson (2B).