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Max Mercy – NSO

 

Photo By: Ken Palmer

 

SUPERIOR — Superior defeated Proctor, 5-2, in a Lake Superior Conference baseball game at the Superior High School field on Sat., April 25. It was the Rails’ first game at SHS’s new artificial turf field. Proctor was the home team.

Winning pitcher Austin Sears allowed two unearned runs on three hits, five walks, and one hit batsman with three strikeouts in five innings. Morgen Moen pitched two shutout innings for the save. He allowed two hits and one walk and had one strikeout.

Justin Reinkall, Tyler Nystrom, and Sears each had two hits for the Spartans, and Sean O’Neill contributed a two-run single in the first inning to start the scoring. Sears scored two runs.

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Proctor’s Nathan Carlson and Dylan Pionk hit consecutive singles to lead off the bottom of the seventh inning to bring the tying run to the plate, but Moen retired the next three batters to end the game.

Losing pitcher Michael Gales (1-1 W-L, 1.80 ERA) allowed two runs on five hits and two walks in five innings. He had two strikeouts.

Matt Morris connected for a booming hit over the left-fielder’s head on a 3-2 count with two outs and the bases loaded in the bottom of the seventh for a walk-off win as Proctor defeated Esko, 6-5, in a non-conference game at Superior High School field to cap the invitational tournament that also featured the host school and Ashland in a round-robin format.

Morris’s hit scored Matt Tracey, who led off the inning with a single. Following a walk to Brian Tracey and a flyout, Dylan Pionk‘s groundout to the right side advanced the runners to second and third. Jake Malec, who hit a two-run triple in the first inning, was intentionally walked to load the bases for Morris.

Proctor went up 3-0 in the bottom of the first inning, but Esko’s starter Cole Litsey settled down and retired 11 batters in a row and the Eskomos chipped away with a run in the second on an RBI single by Matt Bolgrean. Esko tied the game in the fourth on a two-run single by Derek Peterson, and Esko took a 5-3 lead with two runs in the fifth.

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Proctor’s John Aase tied the score at 5-5 with a two-run single in the sixth. Aase (3-1 W-L, 1.11 ERA) was the winning pitcher. He worked all seven innings and allowed two earned runs on eight hits, one intentional walk, and one hit batsman with two strikeouts.

Litsey allowed five runs on five hits and two walks with seven strikeouts in six innings. Losing pitcher Ryan Bourgeault, who relieved Litsey to start the bottom of the seventh, allowed one run on two hits, one walk, and one intentional walk.

Proctor, now 5-2, is at Virginia on Monday.

 

 

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