COLLINS — Collins-Maxwell/Baxter sophomore Tucker Maxwell’s two-run home run gave the Raider baseball team a lead and junior ace Brady Stover did the rest on the mound as CMB defeated Roland-Story 5-0 on Wednesday.
The game was called in the sixth inning due to lightning. The win pushed the Raiders into a three-way tie for second place in the Heart of Iowa Conference with Saydel and Roland-Story. Gilbert defeated Colfax-Mingo, 15-0, to move to 7-0 at the top of the conference and Greene County’s loss to Saydel dropped the Rams to 5-3.
Maxwell’s lone hit of the night came with Creighton Caple on base in the third inning. Maxwell’s first homer of the game made it 2-0 and the Raiders added one run in fourth and two more in the fifth.
That was more than enough for Stover, who allowed just four hits and struck out nine in 5 1/3 innings. He is now 3-0 on the year with three complete-game wins.
“Brady stepped up in some really big spots,” CMB coach Max Seeman said. “They had guys at third at least two different innings, and he ended up getting out of some big jams. And I thought we hit the ball much better tonight than we did in the last couple of games.”
Stover has only allowed two earned runs and nine hits in 18 1/3 innings. He struck out 15 in a seven-inning win over Greene County, 13 in a six-inning win over South Hamilton and nine in the victory over Roland-Story on Wednesday.
Roland-Story (10-6 overall, 5-2 in HOIC) came into the game on a four-game win streak and winners of five of its last six. The Norse have hit seven homers and came into the game batting .323 as a team, but Stover was too much on the mound.
CMB (5-3, 5-2) have won four of its last five games and can move past Saydel in the conference standings with a road win against the Eagles on Friday.
The Raiders, who stranded one runner on base, managed just three hits at the plate. Maxwell was 1-for-1 with two runs, two RBIs and a walk. Caple was 1-for-1 with two runs and a walk.
The other hit came from Brad Ritter, and he also drove in a run, scoring Seth Balke, who reached on one of the Norse’s three errors.
Alex Muhlenburg had two of Roland-Story’s four hits. Tyler Hovick and Jake Ford each had one hit. Hovick started on the mound and took the loss after allowing the Maxwell homer.
He fanned five in three innings. Ford also pitched and allowed three runs — one earned — in his only inning.
CMB’s HOIC battle against Saydel in Des Moines will start at 7:30 p.m. Friday. The Raiders play in the Colo-NESCO tournament on Saturday.
Lynnville-Sully 15,
BGM 13
BROOKLYN — Lynnville-Sully’s Hawks built up an 8-1 lead, saw it vanish, retake the lead and held off their host BGM in a high-scoring South Iowa Cedar League contest Wednesday.
The Bears struck for seven runs in the bottom of the fourth to tie the game at 8-all. Lynnville-Sully kept hitting and scoring with four runs in the fifth and three more in the sixth building up a 15-12 lead. BGM scored one more run in the bottom of the seventh, but the Hawks won 15-13.
Caleb James started and went 5 1/3 innings for the Hawks. He was charged with six runs on six hits and three walks.
Kolton Fisk worked 1 2/3 innings, allowing four runs on three hits and four walks. Elijah Collins pitched, giving up three runs on two hits and two walks.
The Hawks pounded out 20 hits in the contest led by James, who was 4-for-5 with three singles and a double.
Tyler Van Zante and Ross Van Wyk each had two singles and a double. Fisk delivered three singles.
Lucas Smith and Caden Dunsbergen hit two singles each. Hitting a single apiece were Baker Zegers, Kyle Van Dyke and Sage Zylstra.
Lynnville-Sully improved to 6-3 overall and 5-1 in conference play. The Hawks host Colfax-Mingo Thursday in a non-conference contest in Sully.
Gilbert 15,
Colfax-Mingo 0
COLFAX — The Tigers claimed their seventh straight win on the road against Colfax-Mingo on Wednesday and scored at least 12 runs for the fourth time during that stretch.
The first-place Tigers are now 11-2 overall and 7-0 in the Heart of Iowa Conference. Colfax-Mingo falls to 0-10 overall and 0-7 in HOIC play. The Tigerhawks were shut out for the sixth time this year.
Colfax-Mingo heads to Lynnville-Sully on Thursday. First pitch is slated for 6 p.m. The Tigerhawks host defending Class 2A champion North Polk at 7 p.m. Friday.
PCM-Nevada baseball game suspended in the third inning
PRAIRIE CITY — Lightning got the best of the Prairie City-Monroe/Nevada baseball game on Wednesday.
The Cubs led 5-0 after 2 1/2 innings when the game was suspended. The contest will be completed when PCM travels to Nevada for a regularly schedule game on July 6.
PCM returns to action Saturday when it heads to Gilman for the East Marshall tournament. Action begins at 10 a.m.