HELENA — Who will play the Helena Senators in the 2024 Class AA Montana/Alberta American Legion Baseball State Championship Game?
That’s what Saturday’s action at Kindrick Legion Field determines.
No. 2 Helena Senators 4, No. 1 Billings Scarlets 3
It wouldn’t have felt right any other way. A one-run decision, the tournament’s seventh, to set the 2024 Class AA championship.
When Nolan Berkram’s bases-loaded line drive pounded off the left field wall in the seventh, Helena’s faithful packed into Kindrick Legion Field sighed relief.
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Bohden Bahnmiller, on the mound, did the same. A few feet higher and Billings would’ve walked its way into another do-or-die game Sunday.
Instead, Bahnmiller retired three of the next four Scarlets, the final one with the game’s tying run 90 feet away, to preserve the Senators’ third tournament victory by the slimmest of margins.
“Through the roof,” Bahnmiller said of his seventh-inning nerves. “I had to take a second to clear my head. God, my mind was running. That last out felt so good.”
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