Blues earn 2nd victory of week over El Dorado
By The Emporia Gazette (Contact)
Saturday, July 18, 2009
The Emporia A-16 Blue team defeated El Dorado 14-8 Friday in a game that was called in the ninth inning because of darkness.
The visiting Blues still had the bases loaded when play was halted in what was already a five-run inning. Remington Pinick drew a bases-loaded walk to plate the first run of the ninth, and Dustin Lingenfelter followed with a two-run single. Later in the inning, Brian Keisler drew a walk to force in another run, and Matt Fry got the last of his four hits, a single to score Ryan Huth.
Emporia took the lead for good in the top of the seventh with a three-run inning to go up 9-7. Huth singled with one out, Brett Lechien doubled to put runners on second and third and Dusty Maas drove both runners in with a triple. Maas then scored on a single by Keisler. The Blues also scored two in the second, one in the fifth and three in the sixth.
Fry tripled, doubled twice and singled, and also reached on a walk and a hit by pitch. Maas had three hits for the game and also walked twice, and Thomas Lowe had a pair of hits. In addition to his double, Lechien also drew four walks. The Blues pounded out 14 hits for the game.
Emporia employed four different pitchers. Keisler started the game and went two innings before being relieved by Lechien. Pinick and Jacob Loucks took the mound later, and Pinick ended up taking the victory for the Blues.
The win was the second over El Dorado this week for Emporia, which won 9-0 by run rule on Tuesday at Soden’s Grove.
Friday at El Dorado
Emporia 200 133 305 — 14 14 5
El Dorado 300 004 10x — 8 7 2
WP — Pinick.
2B — EMP: Fry 2, Flanagan, Lechien. 3B — EMP: Fry, Maas.