Reischman Makes Impressive First Start on the Mound

Freshman Drew Reischman made his varsity pitching debut on Saturday throwing two scoreless innings to close out the victory against Shawnee, Ill.  Today he got the start against district foe Leopold.  All he did in his first start was pitch a 6-inning no-hitter, he allowed one run and helped the Eagles improve their record to 9 - 3 with the 12-1 victory.

Oran scored a single run in the first and second innings.

In the first, Jacob Priggel reached on a two-out error, stole second and came home on an rbi single by Hunter Schlosser.

Blake Overfield singled with one-out in the next frame.  One out later Layne Johnson walked moving Overfield to second base.  Thomas Trankler drove Overfield home with a single.

Meanwhile Reischman was dealing on the mound even though Leopold mangaed a baserunner in each of their two innings.  In the first with one-out a batter reached after catcher's interference but was quickly erased on an inning-ending ground ball double play.

In the second, an error was sandwiched around two strikeouts and he was erased in a fielder's choice

The third inning saw the Eagles strand two after back to back one-out singles by Priggel and Schlosser.

Reischman struck out the side in the bottom half.

Oran stretched the margin to six in the fourth inning.  They scored four runs, only one earned.  Overfield reached on an error.  He went to second on Tanner McVay's single.  Both runners advanced on a wild pitch and Overfield scored on a ground ball error on a batted ball by Trankler.  McVay and Trankler scored on the first of three consecutive singles by Preston Hahn.  Hahn then scored on Schlosser's two-out double.

Leopold got their only run in the bottom of the fourth inning on two errors, a walk and a bases-load hit batsman.

Neither team scored in the fifth, even though the Eagles had runners on second and third with nobody out after Clay Sauceda reached on an infield error and Overfield singled for his second hit of the day.  Cole Priggel, Sauceda's courtesy runner and Overfield advanced on a wild pitch.  But back to back strike outs and a fly out ended the threat.

Oran would pound the final nails in the Wildcat coffin in the sixth inning.  11 Eagle batters would come to the plate with six scoring.  Hahn singled and advanced on a wild pitch.  He scored on Priggel's single  Priggel advanced to second on the throw in.  Schlosser walked.  Reischman hit a bullet just to the left of the third baseman that he was able to snag for the first out of the inning.  Sauceda walked to load the bases.  Priggel scored when Overfield hit a bounder down the third base line that was booted.  McVay walked to force in Schlosser.  Cole Priggel, running for Sauceda, was forced out at home and was the second out.  Trankler singled to drive in Overfield.  Hahn had his second hit of the inning to cap the scoring by driving in both McVay and Johnson.

Reischman retired the side in order.  The final out was a hard hit ground ball the just glanced off his glove but continued on toward second base. Hahn was able to field the ball and throw quickly to first to record the final out.

The freshman hurler struck out 10, walked one and hit a batter.  He worked the six innings throwing only 76 pitches.

Reischman and Schlosser were named co-stars of the game.  Schlosser was 3 for 3 at the plate, with two singles, a double and a walk.  He scored a run and also drove in two.

Other offensive stand outs included Hahn who was 3 for 5 with four rbi and two runs scored. Trankler, Priggel and Overfield each had two hits. Trankler drove in two while Priggel and Overfield had one.  Overfield crossed the plate three times.  Hahn, Priggel and McVay scored twice.

Oran will be back in action tomorrow at 4:30 when they travel to Woodland to take on the Cardinals.