Colfax-Mingo baseball opens season with loss to Montezuma

MONTEZUMA — The Colfax-Mingo baseball team scored first but struck out 16 times at the plate during a 9-3 road loss to Montezuma on Wednesday.

The Tigerhawks scored all three of their runs in the first three frames, but Montezuma plated two in the first, four in the fourth and two in the fifth during the South Iowa Cedar League win.

Colfax-Mingo was limited to two hits. Wyatt Jay led the offense with a double, one run and two RBIs and Ayden Sloan was hit by a pitch and scored two runs.

Jace Lewis tallied one hit and one RBI, Camden Cunningham and Alex Teed both walked once and Xavier Woods and Fisher Grover were each hit by one pitch.

Cunningham started on the mound and took the pitching loss after allowing six runs — two earned — on five hits, five walks and one hit batter in 3 2/3 innings. He also struck out nine.

Jay pitched 2 1/3 innings of relief and surrendered three runs — one earned — on four hits and one walk. He struck out four.

The Tigerhawks (0-1, 0-1 in the SICL) finished with three errors.

Montezuma (1-0, 1-0) got two hits, three runs, three steals and one RBI from Gavin Wilcox and Luke Erselius tallied two hits, two runs and one RBI.

Erselius also got the pitching win after allowing one hit and one earned run and striking out 16 over seven innings.