After a rocky start, Northeast Nodaway is closing in on their first winning season since 2022. They came to the threshold Monday with a 14-2 win over Stanberry. Jace Burns pitched a complete game, Brock Healy bashed three hits, Jordan Dannar and Brady O'Connell added two more, and the Bluejays swiped nine bases without getting caught.
Northeast started off strong as Jordan Dannar beat out an infield hit and stole second. Lance Runde singled to right and Dannar scored on the play as Runde took second on the unsuccessful throw home to make it 1-0. Lance Runde stole third. Jace Burns walked. Brock Healy beat out Northeast's second infield hit as Runde scored to make it 2-0 and Burns took third. Wyatt Scadden walked to load the bases. An errant pickoff throw got away, and Jace Burns scored to make it 3-0. Brock Healy took third and Wyatt Scadden took second on a passed ball. Liam Cordell hit a pop fly that dropped in no-man's land before the second baseman could get to it for the Bluejays' third infield hit as Wyatt Scadden and Brock Healy both scored to make it 5-0. Liam Cordell stole second and Brady O'Connell hit a line drive dropped by the shortstop. Cordell, off with the crack of the bat with two outs, scored on the play to make it 6-0.
Stanberry threatened in the bottom of the first. Sam Simbro walked and Vincent Smithson reached on an error to put runners on first and second. They took second and third on a passed ball. But Burns struck out Kenyon Affuso looking on a 3-2 pitch and got Quinn Jenson to ground out to end the inning.
Jace Burns and Brock Healy singled. Wyatt Scadden and Bentin Roberts walked to force in Dale Deardorff (running for Burns) to make it 7-0. The recent improvement of the Bluejays can be linked to the improvement of Brady O'Connell, who has been raking the ball recently and has become a reliable bat in the lower part of the order. Brady singled to center to score Brock Healy. Wyatt Scadden came around to score from second and was safe as O'Connell took second and Bentin Roberts took third to make it 9-0. Jordan Dannar was plunked to load the bases. Bentin Roberts came home on a balk to make it 10-0.
Reece Gray was plunked to start the third, the second Bluejay to be plunked after they were plunked seven times in the Platte Valley game. Reece Gray stole second and Jace Burns grounded out to advance him to third. Brock Healy grounded out to score Gray to make it 11-0.
Sam Simbro walked with one out in the Stanberry third. Vincent Smithson forced him at second. Trying to make something happen and get his team back into the game, he stole second and then tried to steal third, only for catcher Brady O'Connell to gun him down to end the threat.
With one out in the Bluejay fourth, Liam Cordell walked and Brady O'Connell got his second hit, crushing a double to right as Liam Cordell scored to make it 12-0. Jordan Dannar grounded out to advance O'Connell to third. Lance Runde reached on an error as Xander Bodle (running for O'Connell) scored to make it 13-0. Lance Runde stole second. Reece Gray doubled to left to score Runde to make it 14-0.
Stanberry threatened to keep the game going in the fifth as Konnor Keough reached on an error. He took second on a passed ball. But backup catcher Gaige Bodle picked him off second for the first out. Lucian Simmerman grounded out for the second out. Brant Jenson singled and Sam Simbro walked. Vincent Smithson doubled to left to score Jenson and Simbro to make it 14-2. But Jace Burns had enough gas in the tank to freeze Kenyon Affuso looking for the final out, and Northeast got to go home early.
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