Patience finally paid off for the Helena Senators.

The Capital City's Class AA Legion ball team walked nine times -- five of them on full counts -- and then diced up the Calgary Cubs to win Friday's night game of the 14th annual Keith Sell Tournament, 20-3.

Grady Stinchfield pitched a four-hit complete game for Helena, who picked up its first win in four games. The Senators dropped a conference doubleheader to the Billings Royals on Wednesday and lost Thursday's matchup, their first of the tournament, with the Colorado Bobcats 10-9.

"I liked what I saw from Grady Stinchfield," said Senators head coach Dave Thennis. "He was great on the mound, threw a lot of strikes and mixed things up a little bit.

"Then, we strung some hits together and took advantage of some miscues."

Many miscues. The Cubs finished with six errors and catcher John Forno will likely be icing up his bumps and bruises after trying to block one wild pitch after the other.

"That's a tough position, that's why they give you all those pads," Thennis said.

The Senators advanced on three wild pitches, and could have on even more. Thennis held up his runners, keeping them at bay after leading by double-digits, and in the end allowed only one extra-base hit. That was a double by Adam Eckhart in the second inning.

It only took the first two innings for the Senators to collect enough runs to beat their opponent.

After a two-run first, thanks to an RBI flair by Anthony Hogan and a run home by Nick Retz on a wild pitch, the Senators went back to work in the top of the second. Corey Scevers walked on, Nick Trapp bunted for a single, then both runners advanced on a throw from third baseman Devin Williams. That attempt went five feet over the first baseman's head, allowing Scevers to round third and score what would count as the tying run. Trapp came home on another little flair by Hogan to shallow right field. Derek Estep walked on, the third to do so on a pay-off pitch, and would be brought in by Eckhart's double to end the scoring.

The Cubs answered right back in the bottom of the inning when Forno grounded to the shortstop, and -- with two outs -- Logan Bailey kept the inning going with a perfect bunt down the third-base line for a single.

Forno would come home on an error by Senators' shortstop Austin Rue, which allowed Colin Feenstra to reach first and send Bailey to third. Cody Pendergast recorded the team's only RBI when he grounded to the shortstop, bringing in Bailey.

Pendergast could be credited for the Cubs' third and final run. Feenstra slipped behind Eckhart at the plate as Pendergast weas caught in a pickle trying to steal second. He would be tagged out for the third out.

Stinchfield, who finished with three strike outs and no walks, was able to shut Calgary down the rest of the way, thanks in part to a pumped-up defense.

After suffering four errors the night before and struggling with their infield work the past few contests, the Senators gave up three errors on Friday, though showed they were willing to make up for them with some spectacular plays.

Stinchfield made a diving stop on a grounder Forno sent rocketing past the second baseman. After snagging the ball, Stinchfield threw Forno out at first from one knee.

One inning later, Rue made up for his error by barehanding an infield hit and making the throw on the run.

"Typically we play great defense all year long," Thennis said. "So the last couple games have been pretty uncharacteristic, kind of surprising. It was nice to see us get out and play defense aggressively again."

Calgary, meanwhile, just wanted the game to end after the Senators batted through the order in the third and fourth innings.

They scored four runs in the third after Feenstra gave up four hits and three walks. The starter would give up two hits and a walk with one out to start the fourth before being pulled for Daniel Lougen.

Lougen's luck wasn't much better. He made it seven batters -- walking two, hitting one and giving up two hits -- before he was exchanged for Pendergast, who moved to the mound from shortstop. Helena would score nine in the inning.

In the end, the Senators collected 15 hits and 13 RBI.

Hogan hogged the most runs batted in, getting three on his 3-for-5 performance. Retz led the squad at the plate, going 4-5 with three runs and two RBI. Trapp went 3-5 and also scored three runs and two RBI.

Pendergast finished 2-3 for Calgary.

The Senators play back-to-back games today, taking on Moose Jaw at 2:30 p.m. before facing Edmonton at 5:15 p.m.

Walking away from Friday's game, Thennis was happy to see his players back in form and waiting for the right pitches to come by.

"Any time we're on base we're in a position to score. I like the patience at the plate, I didn't think we chased too much," he said. "That is a good sign."

Helena 234 91 -- 20 15 3

Calgary 030 00 -- 3 4 6

Helena, Grady Stinchfield and Adam Eckhart. Calgary, Donovan Feenstra, Daniel Lougen (4), Cody Pendergast (4) and John Forno.

Helena -- Austin Rue 1-2, Nick Retz 4-5, Anthony Hogan 3-5, Adam Eckhart 1-4, Colter Sternhagen 0-3, Grant Wise 1-2, Corey Scevers 1-4, Nick Trapp 3-5, Derek Estep 1-2.

Calgary -- Cody Pendergast 2-3, Nick Granton 0-3, Devin Williams 0-3, Aaron Pepin 0-2, Skyler Lickiss 0-2, John Forno 1-2, Chris Mycyk 0-2, Logan Bailey 1-2, Colin Feenstra 0-2.

2B -- Eckhart.