BATTLE CREEK, MI (WTVB) – The Coldwater Cardinal baseball team extended its winning streak to five games after sweeping a doubleheader at Pennfield Thursday, 1-0 and 6-5.
The first game was originally suspended on April 21st after the first inning due to storms. There was no score at that point, and once play resumed, the game would remain scoreless until the seventh, when Rylan Edwards came home on an errant throw by the catcher after Edwards had stolen third. Owen Tappenden threw a complete game no-hitter with four walks and 13 strikeouts; he also had the only two Cardinal hits off Panther starter Calvin Paesens.
Coldwater was down 5-1 in the second game until Tappenden hit a three-run home run in the fifth, his sixteenth of the season. In the sixth, Royale Fleming’s RBI double brought home Luke Stout to tie the game; Fleming scored the go-ahead run on Dayton Ennis’s RBI single. Ennis was 3-for-4 at the plate, and he picked up the pitching victory in relief of Edwards.
The Cardinals improved to 14-13 overall and finished Interstate 8 play at 8-4. They return to action Wednesday at East Lansing.
BRONSON, MI – Bronson fell to 17-10 after they were swept at home by Parma Western, the fourteenth-ranked team in Division 2 in the latest Michigan High School Baseball Coaches Association poll. The Panthers took the opener 14-0 in five innings and won the nightcap 8-7 in eight innings.
The Vikings were held to four hits off Western starter Isaiah Norwood in the first game. Joe Fair was 2-for-2, with the other hits coming from Connor McClelland and Collin Webb.
In the second game, the Panthers scored the eventual game-winner on an RBI ground out in the eighth. Max Byler was 3-for-4 with two doubles and two RBIs.
Bronson will host its Polish Classic tournament on Saturday.
Comments