The Hamilton Heights baseball team dropped an extra-innings game at Class 3A Sectional 24 at Yorktown Saturday afternoon, falling to New Castle 4-3 in 10 innings.
The Trojans scored two runs in the top of the first inning. The Huskies cut that lead to 2-1 in the bottom of the first when Sam Allen scored on a wild pitch.
Heights tied the game in the fifth inning. Cooper Vondersaar led off with a single, made his way to third base, then scored when Nate Hulen reached on a dropped third strike. New Castle took a 3-2 lead in the top of the sixth, but the Huskies answered again when Vondersaar scored the tying run in the bottom of the second. The score stayed 3-3 until the top of the 10th, when the Trojans got the go-ahead run.
Drew VanOeveren pitched six and two-thirds innings, striking out six.
Heights finished its season 12-10.
NEW CASTLE 4, HAMILTON HEIGHTS 3
(10 innings)
Heights AB R H RBI
Sam Allen 5 1 1 0
Nick Hulen 4 0 1 1
Dean Mason 3 0 1 0
Drew VanOeveren 3 0 0 0
Isaac Tuma 4 0 1 0
Alex Eubanks 4 0 0 0
Braulio Pena 4 0 0 0
Cooper Vondersaar 3 2 1 0
Harrison Hochstedler 1 0 0 0
Landon Hurley 1 0 0 0
Kaleb Murray 0 0 0 0
Totals 32 3 5 1
Score by Innings
New Castle 200 001 000 1 – 4 7 1
Heights 100 010 100 0 – 3 5 0
SB: Vondersaar. SAC: Hurley, VanOeveren, Hulen. HBP: Vondersaar.
Heights pitching IP R ER H
VanOeveren 6.2 3 3 4
Guy Griffey 3.1 1 1 3
Strikeouts: VanOeveren 6, Griffey 3. Walks: VanOeveren 4, Griffey 1.