Freshman Colin Olsen connects for a hit in a game against Menominee earlier this month. Olsen drove in four runs including a three-run double in Monday’s 18-4 win at Houghton. (Ron Deuter photo)

HOUGHTON – Juniors Jonah Doenier, Devin Miller and senior Jacob Deuter each tallied three hits, and freshman Colin Olsen drove in four runs as Kingsford roughed up Houghton 18-4 Monday afternoon.

The Flivvers (12-10) won for a third straight game after having their nine-game win streak snapped against Escanaba last week, pounding out 15 hits and pulling away with a nine-run seventh inning.

Doenier, batting .410 on the season, was 3-for-5 with three singles and three RBIs. Miller, whose average is at .531 in 45 plate appearances this season, smacked a double in a 3-for-4 effort to follow-up his two-homer performance Saturday against Ashland. Deuter knocked two doubles with two RBIs, heating up the past couple weeks with 11 hits and nine RBIs in his last 31 at-bats with five extra base hits.

Olsen, showing a .327 varsity average on the season, brought in three with bases-clearing double. His other RBI walked in when he was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded. Junior Jack Spreen, also batting better than .300 this season, went 2-for-4 with a pair of RBIs and four runs scored.

Freshman Luke Rice added a triple. Senior Jack Kriegl, a plus .400 hitter this season, also collected two RBIs, despite a rare 0-for-5 showing at the dish, driving in one on a groundout and drawing a bases loaded walk.

Kriegl took the win on the mound with three innings of four-hit ball with three strikeouts and one walk, improving to 5-0 with a 2.47 ERA. Junior Caleb Erickson worked 1 2/3 innings of hitless relief with a strikeout. Rice threw 2 1/3 innings allowing just one more Houghton hit but struggling a bit with his control, fanning three while walking seven.

Kingsford’s JV team, fresh off capturing the U.P. title this past weekend, went down 6-4 for their first defeat of the spring despite out-hitting the Gremlins 6-2. Freshman Cooper Myers had two hits and two RBIs, while freshman Gino Santoni swatted a triple for the 14-1-1 Flivvers.

The Flivvers head to Menominee this afternoon before playing at Norway on Thursday. A road game against Northland Pines has been added to the schedule for Tuesday ahead of returning home to host the Division 2 District 33 tournament starting Friday, May 29. Kingsford will take on Houghton open the tournament at 10 a.m., with Escanaba versus Negaunee to follow. The winners meet for the district title in the early afternoon.