Box Score
For the third time
this weekend Valparaiso jumped on top first, but Austin Peay again rebounded on
Sunday afternoon to take the third and final game of the weekend series from
the Crusaders 7-3 at Raymond C. Hand Park in Clarksville, Tenn.
Chris Manning (Lake Forest, Calif./El Toro H.S.) had two
of the Crusaders’ four hits on the afternoon as Governor pitching shut down the
Brown and Gold after the opening inning.
Manning led off the
game with a single and Bobby Martin
(Crystal Lake, Ill./Prairie Ridge H.S.) followed with a walk. Kyle
Gaedele (Arlington Heights, Ill./Rolling Meadows H.S.) delivered the first
run of the game with a double down the leftfield line to score Manning. Ryan O’Gara
(Buffalo Grove, Ill./Buffalo Grove H.S.) plated the second run with a ground
out before Steven Scoby (Delton,
Mich./Delton Kellogg H.S.) delivered a two-out single to make it 3-0 Valpo
after a half an inning.
A double and a pair
of fly outs produced Austin Peay’s first run in the second inning and the
Governors tied the game in the fourth. A
single, a triple, and another single evened the score. The Governors manufactured the go ahead run
in the fifth on a double and a pair of ground outs.
A Valpo error in the
sixth led to a pair of unearned runs and the Governors tacked on one final run
in the eighth.
Rolando Gautier and
Greg Bachman led Austin Peay (3-0) with two hits each while Gautier and Jordan
Hankins each drove in a pair of runs.
Alex Belew earned
the win (1-0) for the Governors, working five innings, allowing three runs and
four hits while striking out five. Zach
Toney earned the save (1), pitching the final four scoreless innings without
allowing a walk or a hit and fanning seven.
Tyler Deetjen (Saint Charles, Ill./East H.S.) started and
took the loss (0-1) for the Crusaders, pitching five innings and allowing four
runs on seven hits. He walked two and
struck out five.
Valparaiso (0-3)
will head west on Friday to begin a four-game weekend series against Cal State
Northridge. First pitch on Friday is set
for 4 p.m. CST.
