The Riverton Raider Legion Baseball team got by Green River 13-2 Wednesday night.

The ten run mercy rule came into effect midway thru the 5th inning to stop the game scheduled for 7 innings short. Riverton got 10 of their 13 runs from the first inning. They would slug out 5 RBI hits including two from Greg Tenlen, a 2 RBI double from Trevor Wilson, and singles from Clark Mendes and Jaron Monroe. Green River gave up 7 walks in the inning as Riverton plated 10 runs.

Green River pulled the starting pitcher Josh Pate out after going 0.1 innings and allowing 7 runs.

Riverton struck again in the bottom of the third. The inning was started by a pair of walks to Trevor Wilson and Clark Mendes. Dallas Olsen came up and hit a 2 RBI single to give the Raiders a 12-0 advantage.

The Knights would get on the board in the 4th scoring both of their runs thanks to an error, a double, and a suicide squeeze play.

Riverton notted one more in the bottom half of the 4th on a Trevor Wilson RBI single scoring DH Matt Raymond. Wilson was batting .438 coming into tonight's games to lead Riverton and much of the state.

Riverton went on to win 13-2 in game one of the double header.

Riverton Box:

Franklin Asmundsen 0-2 2 RBI

Matt Raymond 1-3 (2B)

Trevor Wilson 2-2 2 RBI

Doss Winter 0-1

Jaron Monroe 1-3 RBI

Clark Mendes 1-2 RBI

Greg Tenlen 1-1 RBI

Dallas Olsen 1-2 2 RBI

Derek Watson 0-1