Eagles, Spartans win baseball battles

DJ Brown of the TOR Spartans goes into the plate headfirst in the first game Saturday at Garfield. Taylor Christopher, Viking pitcher, attempted to get the tag down on Brown but the ball got away.

St. John/Endicott and the TOR Spartans took wins over the past week while the south side of the SE took a toll in other baseball matchups.

TOR Saturday took a pair of wins over the GP Vikings at the Garfield field. The first game finished a 13-12 after a dramatic final inning which saw the Vikings charge.

The game went into the last inning on a 7-7 tie, and the Spartans at the top of the inning began to get the hits and scored five runs for a 12-7 lead.

The Vikings came out in the bottom of the inning and began to get the hits. They scored four runs before DJ Brown, third pitcher on the mound for the TOR, booked the last out. Final was 13-12 with nine of the runs scored in the last inning.

Will Dedic started for TOR; Flash Hodges pitched in the fifth and sixth and Brown battled for the win in the final inning.

Catcher Jared Hereford led the TOR bats with four hits, including two doubles. Dedic paired doubles and Brandon Hovde picked up a double. Garrett Pfaff had three hits with a double for the Vikes.

In the second game, TOR booked a 16-5 win, also over seven innings. They capped it with five runs in the top of the seventh.

Hodges pitched the win with Hovde called to the mound in the seventh.

Eric Slocum and Nick Cocking pitched for GP. Each side had eight hits with Dedic and Hovde getting two each. Cocking, Wilson Allen and Pfaff each tagged a double for the Vikings.

ST. JOHN/ENDICOTT last Thursday, April 22, pegged a 9-3 win over Liberty at Endicott with Mason Van Lith throwing a five hitter. He struck out five of the Lancers.

The Eagles pegged nine singles while Van Lith rationed the Lancer offense. Eagle defense also had one double play during the game.

The Lancers also had five errors for the day.

COLTON Saturday sustained two one-run losses to Tri-Cities-Prep on the home field. The Jags took the first one 5-4 after scoring two runs in the top of the sixth inning. Those two runs came off a bases loaded walk and a wild pitch.

Colton took the loss despite a 6-3 hitting edge with Bricyn Abdul tagging three hits and Nate Jacobs and Andrew Tietjen each tagging a double.

Holdan Druffel started for Colton and Taylor Spence relieved him in the sixth.

TCP booked another strong close with four runs in the sixth to take a 14-13 win in the second game. Again, the Jags won after being out-hit, 14-10.

Colton led 9-5 after three innings, but the Jags tied it in the top of the fourth.

Colton totaled 14 hits with Tietjen tagging three, including a double. Chase Druffel doubled and homered, and Abdul, Patrick Lutskas, Josh Straughan and Spence each had two hits.

Straughan started for Colton and Spence relieved him in the fourth.

LaCROSSE/WASHTUCNA sustained two defeats to Touchet Saturday, 27-0 and 23-4.

The young Tigercats were able to generate offense in the second game with two runs each in the fourth and fifth innings. Aaron Cochrane and Levi Allen linked hits in the fourth to score Darcy Stamper on the first hit and Cochrane came around on Allen’s rap.

In the fifth exchange student Daniel Aengenvoort rapped a two RBI hit. Jed Stamper and Brandon Bennett scored.

Darcy Stamper, Bennett and Allen pitched in the first game. Jed Stamper and Matt Stubbs pitched in the second game.

The TCP team which nipped Colton twice is slated to play at LaCrosse Saturday.