BASEBALL

The #RV Huntington baseball team ran away with Saturday’s game one, 14-5, before the visiting Cougars of Mount Vernon (16-14, 7-14) outlasted their hosts 5-4 in the nightcap. With yesterday and today’s split, both teams leave the series with two wins and two losses.

Frame’s crew put up their best offensive numbers of the year by posting 16 hits and 14 runs, both of which were season-highs, in the opener. Camden Dice and Jarret Gray headlined the contest by each launching a three-run shot over the right field fence in back-to-back innings.

Dice singled in a another run in the eighth to finish with two hits and four RBI. Satchell Wilson tallied two run-scoring base pokes while Alex McCutcheon drove in HU’s first two runs with a single up the middle. Ian McCutcheon, Daniel Lichty and Kallen Kelsheimer each collected an RBI-hit to round out a well-balanced offensive attack.

It was Dice’s dinger in the bottom of the third that gave HU a 6-3 lead. It stood the test of time as the hosts would go on to outscore the Cougars 8-2 the rest of the way.

Joey Butz notched the win on the mound. In seven innings of work, he gave up five hits, three runs and two walks while striking out two.

The nightcap saw the Foresters jump out to a 3-0 advantage only to watch it disappear by the fifth when the Cougars touched home three times to take a 4-3 lead. Langston Ginder’s sacrifice fly in the sixth knotted things up at 4-4 and then it took an extra two frames for MVNU to eventually notch the win. Just like yesterday’s nightcap, HU generated multiple scoring opportunities but just couldn’t convert as evidenced by stranding ten base-runners.

Dice tallied his fifth RBI of the day by walking in a run in the third. Wilson and Kelsheimer also carried over their offensive prowess from the opener by registering another RBI-base poke in the nightcap.

Mason Shinabery was charged with the loss having given up ten hits and five runs while striking out seven in eight innings of work.

HU (20-8, 13-7) is back at Forest Glen this weekend to host Goshen.