Bulldogs pass Wildcat test; lead league

Brody Yarnell of the Bulldogs collides with Wildcat first baseman Ethan Frazier in the second game Saturday at McDonald Park.

The Colfax baseball team took two more wins Saturday at McDonald Park over the Wilbur/Creston Wildcats and added two more Tuesday when Tekoa/Rosalia forfeited two games which had been slated at Rosalia.

The Timberwolves weren’t able to field a team because discipline measures left them with just eight players.

Now 14-0, Colfax holds a three-game edge on the rest of the NE pack. They are slated to play a pair Saturday at St. George’s.

Coach Mike Parrish noted the Tuesday forfeits allowed the Bulldogs more time to rest their pitchers. Saturday, starters Garrett Burke and Danny Robinson worked after pitching the previous Tuesday.

“They were both on short strings,” Coach Mike Parrish noted.

Colfax started Saturday with a 14-4 win over the Wildcats in the first game and then escaped 6-5 with some last inning drama before taking the second win, the closest they’ve come to defeat all year.

The Wildcats trailed 0-6 after the first two innings in the second game, but they began chipping away at the Bulldog lead and trailed 4-6 going into the last inning.

They scored one run and had the bases loaded in the last inning but couldn’t collect one more run to tie it up.

Colfax pitcher Danny Robinson, who bagged one out by snagging a hit back to the mound by Kyle Bedeau, managed to get the other two outs and strand what could have been go-ahead runners for the Wildcats.

The inning started when Trystan Rosman drew a walk on four straight pitches. Ethan Frazier then came up with a big hit to the left field fence and the ball dropped when Colfax outfielders Brody Yarnell and Keith Gfeller collided.

Frazier made it all the way around to third base, but that was as far as he advanced.

The Wildcats put on another runner when the Colfax defense, rather than making a toss to first for an out, kept the ball at the plate to keep Frazier from charging to the plate for a score to tie it.

The game ended on and easy shot to Mark Webber at second base who threw the last WC runner out at first base.

Robinson gave up eight hits in taking the win.

The Bulldogs also had eight hits with Robinson and Garrett Burke tagging doubles.

Colfax scored five runs in the second inning for a 6-0 lead, but then the scoring stopped, and WC came back to 4-6 before the seventh.

Robinson, Burke and Gfeller each had two hits in the second game. Cal Gregory and Dustyn Hall hit singles.

Colfax exploded for 12 hits in the 14-4 win in the opener. They had five runs in the first inning with Robinson, Kenton Lyman, Yarnell and Gregory each tagging the RBI hits,

The Bulldogs added three in the fourth and six more in the sixth with four walks, and a WC error. Lyman, Andrew Becker.and Dustyn Hall all had RBI hits in the first game.

Top Bulldog feature play of the day was a triple play booked in the fifth inning when the Wildcats had runners on third and second base with nobody out. The next batter hit a liner to Burke, then at shortstop. The two Wildcat runners ran in the rap and were picked off at third and second base.