BELOIT—The Beloit Turner baseball team plated three necessary insurance runs in the sixth as Evansville’s rally fell short after it scored two in the seventh to fall 5-3 in RVC Rock action on Wednesday at the YMCA Youth Sports Complex.
Turner’s Jayden Piccione and Brody Berg smacked RBI singles in the second to take a 2-1 lead while an RBI double from Brayden Ward and a two-run single by Andy Buckley upped it to 5-1.
Evansville (5-10, 4-6 RVC Rock) got a seventh-inning leadoff single from Blake Frey and two outs later Wyatt Nelson added a single. One run came home on an error and another scored on a wild pitch before Carston Jaocbson, who threw two innings and struck out one while allowing two hits and two unearned runs, settled down to get a strikeout.
Ward went 3-for-4 while Ethan Halon and Hayden Frey added two hits as Turner (10-5, 8-3) outhit the Blue Devils 12-4.
Halon got the win after cruising through five innings and allowing just one earned run on two hits and three walks with a strikeout.
• HONONEGAH 8, ROCKFORD BOYLAN 1: It didn’t take the Hononegah baseball team long to flush a 20-9 loss to Rockford Boylan on Monday that saw the Titans outhit the Indians 18-5 and take over sole possession of first-place in the NIC-10.
In fact, it took Hononegah less than 48 hours as the Indians outhit Boylan 10-2 and moved back into a tie for the conference title with Wednesday’s win.
Hononegah (19-6) got the scoring started in the third inning after Christian Nelson was hit by a pitch, moved to second on a wild pitch and to third on Bryce Ewing’s bunt single. Landen Seymour brought him home on a ground out to second.
The Titans (17-8) tied it at one in the fourth but Austin Dresser put the Indians back ahead with his RBI single in the fifth before Hononegah exploded for a four-run sixth.
Logan Edward had an RBI single in the big inning while Nelson’s fielder’s choice brought home another run. Two more runners scored after Boylan’s third baseman made an error on an Ewing ground ball.
A bases-loaded walk from Edward and a sacrifice fly from Nelson in the seventh helped the Indians make it 8-1.
Ian Blankenship was stellar on the mound, limiting the Titans to just one hit and four walks with six strikeouts. Jakob DeLeo threw the seventh and allowed just one hit and a walk with a strikeout.
Evan Sayles paced Hononegah with two hits as the Indians put themselves back into a tie with Boylan for first at 12-1.
• SOFTBALL: HONONEGAH 6, ROCKFORD AUBURN 3: The NIC-10 leading Indians jumped out to a 6-0 lead and held off a sixth-inning comeback by the Knights to win at Swanson Park and improve to 14-0 in league play.
Zoey Calhoun started in the pitcher’s circle for Hononegah (22-1) and blanked the Knights for the first four innings. Auburn rallied for three runs in the sixth, but Irelyn O’Brien came on to snuff that comeback and pitch a scoreless seventh.
Calhoun allowed three hits, three earned runs, one walk and struck out four. O’Brien pitched two innings, allowed one hit and one walk.
O’Brien also led the Indians’ 10-hit attack, going 3-for-3 with a pair of doubles, a run scored and two RBIs. Natalie Kinney was 2-for-3 with a double, two runs scored and an RBI and Kaelyn Kelly was 2-for-4 with an RBI.
The Indians won their 21 straight game.
• JANESVILLE PARKER 4, BELOIT MEMORIAL 3: Jasmine Smith scored on Chesney Bishop’s groundout in the second but the Purple Knights could get no further in a non-conference loss to the former Big Eight foe Vikings.
Smith had reached on a two-base error and moved to third on Allie Gustafson’s fly out. But a groundout ended Beloit’s comeback hopes.
Parker (8-9) scored three in the fourth and one in the second as it was outhit by Beloit 7-6.
Trinity Winfield had an RBI sacrifice fly in the second and Amya Clark had a one-run single in the sixth. Clark and Llani Froeber each had two hits.
Rilynne Cleland started and went five innings for the Knights (8-7). She allowed five hits and four runs (one earned) while Delayna Hyser threw the sixth and allowed one hit while striking out three.
• CLINTON 2, EVANSVILLE 0: Ashley Theisen blasted a two-run homer in the bottom of the first and then pitched a complete-game shutout from inside the pitching circle as the Cougars beat the Blue Devils in RVC Rock action.
Jordi Morrison had singled to get it started for Clinton (5-6, 5-9) before Theisen sent one over the center-field fence. Evansville’s Haley Ross was strong in the circle as well, going six innings and allowing just four hits and a walk while striking out six.
But Theisen racked up a whopping 20 strikeouts while allowing just two hits and four walks to keep the Blue Devils (3-11, 0-10) off the board.
Morrison went 2-for-3 while Allie Bell added a single. Ava Vest had a double for Evansville.
• LINESCORES:
Baseball
BELOIT TURNER 5, EVANSVILLE 3
Evan 010 000 2 — 3 4 1
BT 020 003 — 5 12 1
Leading hitters: Evan, Karnes 1x4, 1 Run, 1 RBI; Nelson 1x3, 1 Run; Keller 1x2, 1 Run. BT, Ward 3x4, 1 Run, 1 RBI; Halon 2x4; Frey 2x3, 2 Runs; Buckley 1x4, 2 RBI. 2B: Ward (BT), Halon (BT).
Pitching (ip-h-r-er-bb-so): Evan, Harris (L) 5.2-11-4-4-1-4, Bakken 0.1-1-1-1-2-0. BT, Halon (W) 5.0-2-1-1-3-1, Jacobson 2.0-2-2-0-1-1.
Softball
HONONEGAH 6, R. AUBURN 3
Rock. Auburn 000 003 0 — 3 4 1
Hononegah 032 100 x — 6 10 1
Leading hitters: RA, Viel 2x4, 1 run; Parr 1x3, 1 run, 1 rbi. H, Kelly 2x4, 1 rbi; Calhoun 1x3, 1 rbi; Kinney 2x3, 2 runs, 1 rbi; O’Brien 3x3, 1 run, 2 rbi; Klikno 1x3, 1 run, 1 rbi; Haas 1x3, 1 run. 2B: Parr, O’Brien 2, Kinney, Klikno.
Pitching: RA, Lowery 6.0-10-6-5-2-2. H, Calhoun () 5.0-3-3-3-1-4; O’Brien 2.0-1-0-0-1-0.
CLINTON 2, EVANSVILLE 0
Evan 000 000 0 — 0 2 0
Clin 200 000 — 2 4 0
Leading hitters: Evan, Vest 1x3; Schwenn 1x3. Clin, Morrison 2x3, 1 Run; Theisen 1x3, 1 Run, 2 RBI; Bell 1x3.
Pitching (ip-h-r-er-bb-so): Evan, Ross (L) 6.0-4-2-2-1-6. Clin, Theisen (W) 7.0-2-0-0-4-20.
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