Reece Gray and Brock Healy each had three hits and Northeast Nodaway’s baseball team matched its win total from last year with a 13-8 win over South Holt Monday. The Bluejays have been up and down all year, and it has been either feast or famine. In three games, they have had 11 or more runs and have won all three. In the other six games, they have scored three or fewer runs and have won only one of them.
South Holt has been searching for consistency as well. They were run ruled in their first two games. Then, after an extra inning win over Plattsburg, they proceeded to win their next five, scoring 10 or more in each of them. Then, they dropped three out of their next four coming into Monday’s game.
Northeast Nodaway took advantage of a pair of Knight errors and scored on a successful double steal situation to make it 1-0. Then, Wyatt Scadden grounded out to score Reece Gray to make it 2-0 in the first.
South Holt got the runs back in the second when Coltyn Fansher singled to center. Will Jackson hit an apparent base hit to right, only for Wyatt Scadden to nail Fansher at second on a force. River Cotton singled to right to advance Will Jackson to third. Mike Quinlin reached on an error to score Jackson, but was nailed at second as River Cotton took third to make it 2-1. Cameron Biondo singled to right to score River Cotton to tie it at 2-2.
Brady O’Connell singled to left to start the Bluejay second. Northeast nearly ran its way out of the inning as Jordan Dannar popped out and Dale Deardorff (running for O’Connell) got picked off. But Lance Runde singled and stole second and Reece Gray singled to center. South Holt tried to go home to nail Runde, but he was safe to put the Bluejays back up 3-2 and Gray took second. Northeast would steal 11 bases for the afternoon against South Holt.
But then Northeast started fighting the strike zone and walked the bases full. Coltyn Fansher flied out to Jordan Dannar to score Tayte Prussman to tie it up at 3. Will Jackson hit a line drive and reached on a dropped fly ball by Wyatt Scadden to put the Knights up 4-3. Joey Waggoner (running for Tycen Skeen) took third.
The baserunning woes that have hurt the Bluejays this year came back to bite them again in the third. Brock Healy walked and stole second, only to be thrown out at third trying to advance on Wyatt Scadden’s grounder to shortstop Tayte Prussman, and the Bluejays came up empty.
But South Holt would return the compliment in the fourth. With runners on first and second, an errant pickoff throw to second got away, only for center fielder Jordan Dannar to nail Gabe Wallace-Corcoran at third. Kameron Noland struck out for the final out.
With one out in the Bluejay fourth, Jordan Dannar walked. An errant pickoff throw got away and Dannar made it to third. Lance Runde reached on an error as Jordan Dannar scored to make it 4-4. Lance Runde stole second. Jace Burns reached on an error as Runde took third. Brock Healy singled to score Runde to put the Bluejays up 5-4.
Tycen Skeen reached on an error to start the Knight fifth. Coltyn Fansher doubled to left, but leftfielder Bentin Roberts nailed Joey Waggoner (running for Skeen) at third for the first out. Fansher stole third. Will Jackson walked and stole second. River Cotton struck out looking. Mike Quinlin singled to right to score Fansher, but Scadden cut down Will Jackson trying to score from second to preserve the 5-5 tie.
Bentin Roberts was plunked to start the Bluejay fifth. Roberts stole second and third. Liam Cordell struck out. Brady O’Connell singled to right as Roberts scored to put the Bluejays in front 6-5. Jordan Dannar walked as Xander Bodle (running for O’Connell) took second. Lance Runde struck out. Reece Gray doubled to left as Xander Bodle scored and Jordan Dannar took third. Jace Burns singled to center to make it 8-5.
But with one out in the Knight sixth, Gabe Wallace-Corcoran and Tayte Prussman walked and Kameron Noland singled to load the bases. Tycen Skeen lined out to Jordan Dannar as Wallace-Corcoran tagged and scored and everybody else advanced to make it 8-6. Coltyn Fansher beat out an infield hit as Tayte Prussman scored to make it 8-7. Will Jackson walked. A ball got away and Kameron Noland scored on the error to tie it at 8-8.
Wyatt Scadden and Bentin Roberts walked. Liam Cordell beat out a bunt single to load the bases. Brady O’Connell walked to force in a run to put the Bluejays in front 9-8. Jordan Dannar struck out. Lance Runde flied out to Kameron Noland in center as Bentin Roberts scored to make it 10-8. Liam Cordell took third on the play. Xander Bodle (running for O’Connell) stole second. Reece Gray singled home Cordell to make it 11-8 as Bodle took third. Jace Burns walked. Brock Healy singled to score Reece Gray and Xander Bodle to make it 13-8.
After walking Mike Quinlin to start the seventh, Liam Cordell settled down to get the next three Knights in order to get the save.
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