The Emporia A-16 Blues slugged their way to a 25-1 run-rule win in five innings against the overmatched Andover Trojans on Friday night at Soden’s Grove, cementing themselves as the team to beat on a day of blowouts.
No blowout was worse than this one, of course. If not for an early start, the Blues might have hit their way into the wee hours of today.
“We got in one of those groves where we couldn’t find an out,” Emporia coach Jerry Cook said. “We just kept hitting and kept hitting, and that’s what I like to see.”
The Trojans would beg to differ. It turned from ugly to cringe-worthy for Andover in the fourth inning when Emporia sent 15 hitters to the plate and scored 10 runs on 10 hits.
If the fourth inning was cringe-worthy, then the fifth inning was agony. Once again, the Blues batted around, and they nearly did so twice — in the same inning. The Blues added another 11 runs on seven hits, five errors and two hit batsmen.
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