HTL: Roth fans 8 in 5-hitter as Blue Devils knock off Merchants

JEFFERSON — Ike Roth struck out eight in a five-hitter as the Jefferson Blue Devils beat the Stoughton Merchants 6-1 in Home Talent League baseball at Fischer Field on Sunday.

Roth scattered four singles and a double, allowing an unearned run in the sixth inning while walking three. He threw 109 pitches, 71 for strikes.

The Blue Devils (7-2) scored in the first inning when Heath Renz drew a bases-loaded walk, adding a two-out run in the second when Aidan Kammer singled the other way just inside the third-base line.

Jefferson took advantage of separate errors by Stoughton third baseman Max Kurth to score twice in the fifth and lead 4-0.

Haygen Miller led off the Blue Devils sixth by drawing a four-pitch walk and came around on Kammer’s line shot triple to right field. Roby Schlesner followed with a sacrifice fly for the final margin.

Alex Bailey started for the Merchants (2-6) and took the loss, allowing six runs (three earned) on five hits with six walks and four strikeouts across six innings.

Jefferson hosts Albion on Thursday at 1 p.m.

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WP: Roth

LP: Bailey

Stoughton (ab-r-h-rbi) -- Blaney 4-0-0-0, Wallace 3-0-0-0, Iverson 1-0-0-0, Gudenschwager 3-0-1-1, Bogucki 4-0-1-0, Brewer 3-0-0-0, Sehmer 1-0-0-0, Kurth 2-0-1-0, Wilberg 1-0-0-0, Herbst 2-0-1-0, Lynch 1-0-0-0, Johnson 2-0-0-0, Sperle 3-1-1-0. Totals 30-1-5-1.

Jefferson (ab-r-h-rbi) -- Serrano 3-1-1-0, J. Vogel 1-0-0-0, Kammer 5-1-2-2, R. Schlesner 3-1-1-1, Renz 2-1-1-1, T. Schlesner 4-0-0-0, Hoffman 4-0-0-0, Laesch 3-0-1-0, Peterson 4-0-0-0, Miller 2-2-0-0. Totals 31-6-6-4.

2B -- Kurth (S); R. Schlesner (J)

3B -- Kammer (J)

Pitching (ip-h-r-er-bb-so) -- S: Bailey 6-5-6-3-6-4, O’Grady 2-1-0-0-0-1; J: Roth 9-5-1-0-3-8.