Kingston Liniak bested Gio Brusa in the knockout round to send the Glacier Range Riders home with a 4-3 win Tuesday evening against the defending league champion Yuba-Sutter High Wheelers at Glacier Bank Park.

Liniak put up three homers in the knockout round, while Brusa only hit two big flies.

After a slow start for Glacier (15-16 in the second half), TJ Clarkson hit his 12th home run of the season in the fourth inning to take the lead 1-0. Logan Beard followed the long ball with a single that led to an error by Yuba-Sutter (13-18), bringing in two more runs and extending the lead to 3-0.

Connor Denning started the High Wheelers comeback in the fifth inning with an RBI single, Evan Berkey scored narrowing the deficit to 3-1.

The High Wheelers took advantage of an error in the eighth

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