Huskies win walk-off, split with Anderson

The REPORTER

The Hamilton Heights baseball team got a walk-off win over Jay County last Thursday by the score of 5-4.

The Huskies scored one run in each of the first two innings. Nate Hulen hit a sacrifice fly to score Tyson Upchurch for the first run, then Levi Chandler smacked a solo home run in the second inning.

The Patriots tied the game with two runs in the third inning. Heights scored another run in the fourth, as Cohen Boyd singled in Jackson Mikesell.

Adam Hughes hit a fifth-inning single to bring Josh Newton home and give the Huskies a 4-2 lead. Jay County scored twice in the top of the sixth to tie the game, and the score was still 4-4 in the bottom of the seventh. Newton led off that inning with a single, moved to second base on a wild pitch, then scored the winning run when Hughes sent a double into left field.

Hughes finished the game 3-for-4 at the plate. Kaden Lawson got the win in relief, pitching 2.1 innings with four strikeouts. Starter Hulen went 4.2 innings, tossing six strikeouts.

Saturday doubleheader

The Huskies played Anderson in a Saturday doubleheader. Heights dropped the first game 9-7 but won the second game 10-4.

The Indians led 6-0 midway through the fourth inning. The Huskies scored two runs in the bottom of the fourth. Newton led off with a triple, then got home after Dillon Pitts reached on an error. P.J. Wright sent Pitts home with a double.

Heights tied the game with four runs in the fifth inning. Boyd scored on a wild pitch, Chandler got home after Newton reached on an error, Hughes drove in Newton with a left field double and Wright batted in Cy Mason (running for Hughes) with a right field hit.

Anderson took the lead again with three runs in the sixth inning. The Huskies got a run back in the seventh inning when Chandler scored after Kyle Michael reached on an error with two outs, but a groundout ended the game.

Newton threw six strikeouts in two innings.

Heights won the second game 10-4. The Huskies began with three runs in the first inning: Logan Hickman doubled in Hulen and Austin Kappes, then scored on Pitts’ left field hit.

Luke Davis led off the second inning with a double, then Michael reached on error. Kappes came in to run for Michael, and both he and Davis were sent home by Hulen’s left field hit. That gave the Huskies a 5-0 lead.

Heights added two runs in the fourth inning. Davis scored on a Hulen sacrifice fly, then Kappes got home on Hughes’ center field hit. Chandler batted in two runs in the fifth inning, scoring Colt Johnson and Davis on a right field hit. The Huskies led 9-0 at that point.

Anderson scored all four of its runs in the top of the sixth inning. Hickman got a run in the bottom of the sixth, scoring on a wild pitch.

Davis also hit a double, while Hughes and Pitts each had two hits. Pitts got the pitching win, with four strikeouts in four innings.

This week’s games

The Huskies are 2-2. Heights begins at Hoosier Conference doubleheader with Western on Tuesday, playing at the Panthers’ field before hosting Western on Wednesday. The Huskies welcome Maconaquah on Friday and play at Clinton Prairie on Saturday.