Neal outduels Gilbert, lifts Cameron baseball past Savannah
By Ross Martin, St. Joseph News-Press, Mo. | |
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Savannah's coach watched the defense immediately give the lead back in the bottom of the frame, and by the time the Savages got to
Neal struck out six in a complete-game victory at
"We want to win every inning," Bodenhausen said. "We want to get up there and battle and have good at-bats, and he's a pretty good pitcher. I'll give him credit."
Turned out two runs weren't enough, either, thanks to
The Dragons scored twice in the bottom of the first with
After allowing a run on two hits and a walk in the bottom of the first, Neal scattered just four more hits the rest of the way. He worked around
"I hate when I give up runs. I mean no one wants to give up any runs," Neal said. "But that's going to happen. Everyone's going to hit. It's hard to shut down everyone.
Gilbert hit
Savannah shortstop
Neal made sure it stood up for
"It's kind of nice to get that win," Neal said. "They've been a dominant team in the MEC and all around for a long time, so it's nice to beat them."
Chillicothe 4,
Coming off of an upset against Class 4 No. 6-ranked
"For me, I know it's hard to sit by and watch the kids fail when I know they're capable of so much,"
"So the consistency part will come; it will come."
Tied 2-2 entering the sixth,
The ball kept carrying the opposite way before dropping in, and Cooper followed with a soft liner into left-center to score Smith.
"It felt comfortable. It felt nice to have an insurance run," said Cooper,
A similar shot to Smith's helped
Hiserote hit
Hiserote allowed all four
"The chips just didn't fall where they ... we just didn't get them to fall where we wanted them to today," Hale said.
Sewell worked one inning after Lowe came out with two outs in the fifth and runners on first and third. Sewell navigated that jam and then watched Hussey limit the damage in the sixth to preserve his win.
Harrisonville 9, Benton 8
The Wildcats took advantage of six
Both teams scored two apiece in the sixth.
Baker and Barbee each tripled. Mattice doubled twice and drove in three runs.
The Golden Eagles' nine-game winning streak came to an end in a rematch of last year's Class 3 District 16 title game.
Worthington also collected two RBIs, and
LeBlond (9-3) hadn't lost since dropping its first two games of the season during the City Round Robin.
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