Tigers sweep Carroll in wild doubleheader

The Fishers baseball team swept both games of a rollicking doubleheader with Fort Wayne Carroll Friday at Grand Park.

The Tigers took the first game 8-3. Deagan Repp led off the first inning with a triple, then scored after Huston Dunn hit a sacrifice fly.

Fishers added three runs in the third inning. Dunn batted in a second run with a single to send Owen Lukac home. Repp scored again to make it 3-0, then Trevor Hall bunted Zander Carnahan home.

The Chargers got one run back in the top of the fourth inning, but the Tigers put up three more in the bottom of the fourth. Sean Frey scored on an error, Lukac got home on a wild pitch, then Dunn singled to right field to score Repp. Carroll scored one run each in the fifth and sixth innings; Repp completed the scoring in the bottom of the sixth by stealing home plate.

Repp was 3-for-3 at the plate and totaled four runs, while Dunn was 2-for-2 and drove in three runs. Hayden Werner pitched four innings for the win, striking out three and allowing two hits. Jase Ruggles also struck out three in 1.2 innings of relief.

Back and forth

The second game of the doubleheader was truly back and forth, with Fishers prevailing 16-14. The Chargers scored one run in the top of the first inning, but the Tigers came back with three runs in the bottom of the inning.

Repp led off with a walk, then scored on Dunn’s right field triple. Dunn was quickly sent home after Carnahan hit a right field double. Hall batted in the third run with a left field hit to score Carnahan.

A three-run home run in the top of the second inning gave Carroll a 4-3 lead. The Chargers used an RBI double to go up 5-3 in the top of the third; Fishers got a run back in the bottom of the inning when Luke Cherry scored on Ruggles’ let field hit.

Carroll scored in the top of the fifth for a 6-4 lead. The game then went completely wild in the bottom of the fifth inning, as the Tigers put up six runs, all with two outs.

Collin Hebert tied the game with a right field hit that scored Frey and Hall. Lukac blasted a three-run bases-loaded double into left field, bringing home Jace Johnson, Hebert and Collin Bumps. Lukac was then sent home by Dunn’s center field hit, and Fishers led 10-6.

The Chargers surged back in the top of the sixth inning, scoring eight runs on five hits to lead 14-10. But the Tigers responded with six runs in the bottom of the inning. Hall led off with a single, stole second base and went home on Ruggles’ center field hit.

Johnson hit a single to get on base. He and Ruggles were then sent home by Hebert’s right field triple. Vincent Pecoraro came in to run for Hebert and he scored on an error to tie the game at 14-14.

Lukac was at the plate now and he drove a double into right field to score Brady Carman. Lukac then got home on Carnahan’s sacrifice fly, which would complete the scoring.

Cherry and Hall were both 3-for-5 at the plate, with Lukac and Hebert each totaling four RBIs. Grant Wolf got the pitching win.

Fishers is 3-0 for the season and plays its first Hoosier Crossroads Conference game of the season Thursday at Zionsville.