Chaffee was the visiting team on the scoreboard and batted first. They scored a lone run to start the game and it could have been much worse. After the leadoff man was retired they used a double, a single and another double to score. A walk loaded the bases. Starter Ty Johnson struck out the next two to get out of the jam.
The Eagles tied it up in the second. Dane Shands was hit by a pitch, stole second and the scored on Jacob Shoemaker's two-out single.
The score remained until the fourth when Chaffee scored four unearned runs. A one-out walk and a single were followed by a two-out walk, an error and a single, making the score 5-1. Johnson got the final out of the inning as he reached his pitch-count limit.
Kayden Hargrove came in and tossed a scoreless fifth and sixth innings, before the second-ranked team in Class 2 put up three more in the seventh.
Oran got one back in the sixth. Johnson hit a leadoff double off of Yarbro, went to third on Hargrove's ground out and scored on a wild pitch.
The Devil's got to Hargrove in the seventh after a strikeout, they had back-to-back- singles and a hit batter. A lineout to third was the second out, but that was followed by a bases-clearing double to make it an 8-2 game.
Yarbro, who struck out 14, had reached his pitch limit, so Chaffee went to the pen in the bottom of the seventh and Luke Patterson doubled down the left field line, Shoemaker walked and then Todd Priggel homered. After another pitching change, the next two were retired. Hargrove reached on an infield error but was thrown out trying to advance to second to end the game.
Ty Johnson (4-1) took the loss for Oran (7-4). He went four innings, he gave up five runs, but only one earned. He gave up six hits, on four walks and struck out nine Hargrove went three innings, gave up three runs, all earned on four hits, walked one and struck out three.
Priggel had two hits, including the home and drove in three.
Coach Joe Bickings said, "Going into the game we knew it was going to be tough to score some runs off of Yarbro. He’s arguably one of the best pitchers in the area. With that being said, it’s a big conference game and also a big rivalry and I knew our kids would be up to the challenge. Our kids never quit and battled until the very end. I felt like we stuck out way too much during the game but that has a lot to do with Yarbro being on the mound. I asked the kids after the game if there were any pitches during those strikeouts that they could have hit. For the most part, the answer was yes. When you have such a good pitcher on the mound, you may only get one pitch to hit and you better hit it or you could be in trouble. We had some good at-bats against him but we also had some at-bats that weren’t very good and we just gave them away. Ty Johnson, I thought threw a great game for us and gave us a chance to win. We had two or three miscues in the field that I felt like gave them their first 5 runs. We ended up getting down 2-8 but the game was a lot closer than the score was. But like I said, our kids never quit and we battled back to make it 5-8."
The junior varsity lost 3-1 yesterday in a four-inning contest
The Eagles are scheduled to host Saxony Lutheran today at 4:30. It is a "Jr. Beta Grill Day."
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