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Midlakes Sports
by Ginny Konz
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The jv baseball team took on McQuaid last Tuesday in a non-league game to help keep the skills sharp over vacation. Things started well. Mike Benzer was pitching and helped his cause in the bottom of the first with a double that scored Adam Norsen who was on base because he had been hit by a pitch.
After that things went south. McQuaid picked up 4 runs in the second, helped by 2 walks and 4 errors. In the third inning Matt Jensen hit a single and was chased around the bases by Adam Norsen, who hit an in-the-park homerun, making the score 4-3. In the fourth inning the wheels really came off; McQuaid scored 6 runs and we never recovered. Kyle Tillman came on in relief in the 4th with no outs, 3 runs already in and a runner on third. Colin Hotchkiss pitched the final two innings. While McQuaid went on to score an additional 8 runs, we managed only one - Eric Minns hit an RBI double in the 5th, scoring Adam, who had walked. The final was a dismal 18-4.
Midlakes played Dundee in their first game of the tournament last week, on Thursday, April 21. Torey Pieters was on the mound and breezed through the first two innings, facing only the minimum number of batters. Catcher Brett Adams hit a single in the first inning but died on third when the next two batters struck out. Lightning struck in the second when we took a Dundee error, a hit batsman, a walk and a balk and combined them with a single from Mike Benzer and doubles from Torey, Andrew Flood, and Dennis Gilroy to bat around and score six runs.
Dundee got one back in the third when they led off with a double, their first hit of the game, and he subsequently scored on an error. We were not finished, however. Mark DeCook reached base on an error and scored on a single by Andrew Wagoner. Jason Adams also hit a single, and Brett Adams hit them in with a triple.
Dundee rallied again in the fourth, but a fly ball caught in center field by Dennis Gilroy ended the bases loaded threat. We left two runners on base in the fourth and did not score. Torey again faced only three batters in the top of the fifth, and our half started with Mike Benzer being hit by a pitch. After Jason Adams popped out to the 1st baseman, Brett Adams walked followed by Andrew Flood. Wild pitches and a base hit from Dennis gave us two more runs and chased the Dundee pitcher. Their new pitcher walked the first batter he faced, then settled down and got the next two to fly out, but Andrew Flood did pick up an RBI with his.
Dundee rallied again in the top of the sixth (you have to give them persistence, and they may have been playing with a lot of jv players; we had several players gone and a few jvs in our lineup also) for four runs, but we picked up one more run in the bottom of the sixth, held them scoreless in their half of the seventh, and walked off with a 13-5 win.
We then played Pal-Mac, who had had defeated North Rose- Wolcott in their first game. I was not present for that game, which we lost, 10-6.
I talked with Coach Husk about the skunking his team took at the Mudville Tournament early in the week. He thought, considering the fact that he took only six of his varsity players to the tournament and filled in with jv players, plus he had only one pitcher (freshman Ashley Hall) who pitched both games, that they'd done OK. It was definitely one of those "learning experiences."
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