BRIAN WOLFER, Special to the Standard-Examiner
Ogden Raptors shortstop Elliott Good bats against the Oakland Ballers on Saturday, June 14, 2025, at Lindquist Field in Ogden.
The Ogden Raptors snapped a five-game losing streak Thursday night by rapping 20 hits, seven of them going for extra bases, in a 16-12 victory over the Idaho Falls Chukars at Melaleuca Field.
The win gives Ogden (27-23, 1-2 second half) its first victory of the Pioneer League’s second half.
The sticks came out in the fourth inning to put Ogden ahead. Shortstop Elliott Good socked a two-run homer before catcher Chris Sargent and third baseman Carmine Lane each hit RBI doubles. That four-run inning helped the Raptors flip a 5-2 deficit into a 7-5 lead.
Then second baseman True Fontenot turned the trickle into a firehose with one swing in the fifth inning. Two Raptors drew bases-loaded walks and another was hit by a pitch to push the score to 10-5 against Idaho Falls (29-21, 2-1) reliever Jorge Romero.
Fontenot got his bat involved there, greeting new Chukars pitcher Steven Ordorica with a grand slam to put the visitors ahead 14-5.
Idaho Falls touched up Ogden reliever Kyler Stancato after he pitched a scoreless fourth. Jacob Jablonski’s three-run homer in the bottom of the fifth ended a five-run frame for the Chukars, keeping things interesting at 14-10.
Nico Saltaformaggio got Ogden out of that inning, then pitched two more hitless, scoreless frames before handing to Christian Ciuffetelli for a scoreless eighth. Both teams stopped the fireworks and cruised through those innings with a 14-10 score headed into the ninth.
Good finished his four-RBI day with a two-run single in the top half, padding against two Idaho Falls runs in the bottom of the ninth for the final 16-12 score.
The first inning hinted at a high-scoring affair. Ogden’s Sargent and Connor Bagnieski hit solo homers in the first, while Idaho Falls got solo shots from Eddie Pelc and Tyler Wyatt to lead off the bottom half. The Chukars kept going, hanging five total runs on Raptors starter Cole Stasio for the 5-2 mark after one inning.
Fontenot, Good, Bagnieski and Lane each totaled three hits for Ogden, with Fontenot driving in five runs. Wyatt and Jablonski led Idaho Falls with three RBIs apiece.
