BASEBALL

After splitting with #18 Taylor Thursday afternoon, the Huntington baseball team did the same Saturday by winning 8-5 in the opener before the Trojans returned the favor by the same score in the nightcap.

The two teams delivered blow for blow in the first and third frames. After TU scored twice in the first, Matt Wolff doubled in a run and Jordan Malott had a sac fly to make for a 2-2 tie. Fast forward to the third where two Trojans each knocked one out of Forest Glen Park. Cam Clarkson matched their effort with his third homer of the season, a two-run blast, in the home half of the third for the game’s second stalemate at 4-4.

It was all HU after that. Malott and Wolff each tallied another RBI on a single and ground out respectively with a Gregory Nolasco Berroa two-run double in between. At that point it was 8-4 heading into the eighth where the guests got one back for an 8-5 final.

Noah Arbuckle picked up the win having tossed the first eight frames during which he gave up seven hits, five runs and six walks while striking out eight. Adam Oxley then tossed a scoreless ninth to notch the save.

Taylor set the tone early in game two with a two-run dinger in their first at bat. The Trojans piled on three more runs before Wolff finally got his team on the board with a two-run double in the bottom of the fifth. HU got another run back in the sixth on Bryce Deckman’s RBI-double down the left field line to slice TU’s lead to two at 5-3.

Unfortunately the visitors had a lot of help finding home three more times in the top of the seventh thanks to a wild pitch and two passed balls. It was an 8-3 difference until Sebastian Kuhn sent one out of the park for a two-run homerun in the bottom of the frame to end the scoring and make for another 8-5 final that favored Taylor this time.

Huntington (18-13, 13-7) finished with nine hits to the Trojans’ six. Wolff and Kuhns each posted a hit and two RBI to pace Frame’s crew offensively.

RJ Anglin took the loss for HU. In 5.2 innings of work, the rookie gave up six hits, five runs and four walks while fanning five.

The Foresters hit the road this coming weekend for a four-game series with Goshen.