South Central baseball’s offense got moving early and didn’t stop as the Cougars ran over Wayne City for a 17-2 win in five innings on Thursday with Aiden Strobel and Sebastian Kruger driving in seven of their teams 17 runs in the game. South Central put six runs on the scoreboard in the top of the first inning with RBIs from Aiden Hoover, Eli Hiestand, Landon Lotz and two from Kruger with Hoover also scoring on a passed ball for the 6-0 lead. Wayne City scored their only runs of the game in the bottom of the first inning to cut the Cougars lead down to 6-2 but South Central tacked on two more runs in the top of the second inning on an RBI single by Strobel and a double by Kruger to push their lead back out to six runs, going up 8-2. With a large lead already, the Cougars pushed seven more runs across home plate in the top of the third inning with a pair of runs coming in when Hoover reached base on an error on his line drive to right field, two more scoring on an RBI single from Strobel and three coming in on a succession of events on a wild pitch as South Central blew the game wide open for a 15-2 lead. And RBI single from Strobel in the fourth inning and an RBI single from Ryker Dodson in the fifth inning brought in the final two runs of the game as South Central closed out the 17-2 win. The Cougars are now 5-1 on the season and have a big National Trail Conference matchup tonight playing at Altamont at 7:00pm.
South Central Offense:
Luke Shumate – 1-2, BB, 3 R
Ryker Dodson – 3-5, R, RBI
Aiden Hoover – 1-5, 3 R, RBI
Garret Shumate – 1-3, BB, R
Aiden Strobel – 4-5, 3 R, 4 RBI
Colton Tockstein – 1-1, 2 BB, 2 R
Sebastian Kruger – 3-3, 2 R, 3 RBI
Eli Hiestand – 1-2, RBI
Ben Skibinski – 1-1, R
Landon Lotz – 1-3, R, RBI
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