L-S baseball drops host Tigerhawks in SICL matchup

COLFAX — Class 1A No. 3 Lynnville-Sully scored at least one run in every inning, and Colfax-Mingo committed nine errors and struck out 13 times at the plate during a South Iowa Cedar League baseball game on Friday.

The Hawks led 6-3 after four but blew the game open with two runs in the fifth and sixth and put their hosts away with a seven-run seventh during a 17-3 victory.

Lynnville-Sully led the conference contest 1-0 after one, 3-0 after two and 4-1 after three. Both teams scored twice in the fourth.

JD Richards led the Hawks (15-2, 11-1 in the SICL) with three hits, three runs, two RBIs and two walks.

Terran Gosselink, Carson Maston and Gavin Fisk all had two hits at the plate.

Gosselink added one RBI and one steal and the leads the Hawks with a .435 batting average. Maston doubled, scored two runs and chipped in one RBI, one walk and one steal and Fisk scored three runs, stole three bases and was hit by two pitches.

Lannon Montgomery, Jack Bowlin and Matthew Mintle had the other hits. Montgomery drove in three runs and leads the Hawks with 31 total bases, Bowlin doubled and scored three runs and Mintle walked twice and scored two runs. Bowlin is batting .429.

Trace Carlson collected one RBI, one run and one steal, Ethan Dunsbergen walked once and scored two runs, Gavin Olea had one RBI and Jordan Dunsbergen scored one run.

Richards earned the win on the mound after tossing four innings in relief of Brody Borg, who made his first career varsity start and appearance on the mound.

Borg allowed three earned runs on four hits and one walk in three innings. He struck out seven.

Richards (2-0) surrendered no runs, no hits, two walks and one hit batter and struck out six in his four innings. Richards kept his earned run average at 0.00 for the season and both Hawks tossed 50 pitches.

The Tigerhawks (1-11, 1-10) were limited to four hits. Camden Cunningham’s first career varsity homer highlighted the offense. He also had two RBIs.

Ayden Sloan finished with one hit, one RBI, one walk and one steal, Chase Trotter tallied one hit, one run and two steals and he was hit by a pitch and Wyatt Jay totaled one hit and one run.

Alex Teed drew his team-leading 10th walk and Ryder Duchene also walked once.

Cunningham (0-5) took the pitching loss after allowing four runs — none earned — on two hits and three walks with three strikeouts in three innings.

Jay tossed three innings and surrendered eight runs — four earned — on four hits, one walk and two hit batters with four strikeouts in three innings.

Jace Lewis got two outs. He allowed three earned runs on one hit and two walks. Sloan pitched 1/3 of an inning and gave up two runs — one earned — on one hit, one walk and one hit batter.

Lynnville-Sully has won 11 straight games over Colfax-Mingo. Eight of those wins have come by double digits.