One of baseball's rarest events occurred in the first inning.
The first two Cardinals batters reached base on a single and the only walk of the day issued by Eagle hurlers. That, however, was followed by a swinging strike three that was in the dirt. The batter took of toward first base, even though it was occupied. In the confusion the runner from first headed toward second. Catcher Clay Sauceda ran toward the runner who was trapped helplessly half way between bases. Second baseman Cole Priggel would tag him out. In the meantime, the runner on second had strayed too far off his base and Priggel chased him down and made the tag as he neared third and voilà, triple play, inning over.
Oran would score two, two-out runs in the bottom of the first. Preston Hahn, who got the start on the mound, walked. He scored all the way from first on a double by Sauceda. After a balk advanced him to third, he would cross the plate on a single by Blake Overfield.
The Eagles would score two more in the second.
Tanner McVay turned on a pitch and drilled a double down the left field line. A wild pitch and an error on fly ball hit by Jacob Shoemaker scored McVay. Shoemaker would score on an RBI single by Hahn.
Meanwhile, on the mound, Hahn was shutting down the Cardinal offense.
After that wild first inning, Woodland would not have a runner in scoring position for the next four frames.
Oran would add to it's lead in the third with three more runs
Three straight walks, on 13 pitches, to Overfield, Layne Johnson and McVay, loaded the bases with no one out. After a pitching change, Blake Schlitt drove in a run on a ground out to first. Shoemaker singled to right to drive in Johnson. Reischman grounded out to second and picked up an RBI when McVay crossed the plate.
It was 7-0 after three innings.
Woodland would pick up it's only run in the 6th against Reischman, who had relieved Hahn to start the 5th. A one out single was followed by an error. After a pop out a single would drive in the run.
Oran would score two more in the bottom half.
Sauceda picked up his second extra base hit of the day when he legged out a triple to right center. He scored on a sacrifice fly by Overfield. Johnson was hit by a pitch, went to second on a wild pitch and scored McVay's second double of the day.
Hahn went the first four scoreless innings and picked up the win to improve to 2-2. He allowed 3 hits, struck out 3 and walked only 1. Reischman went the next 2, allowing an unearned run on 2 hits. He struck out 3 and walked no one. Overfield retired all 3 batters he faced in the seventh.
At the plate 5 Eagles shared in the team's 10 hits. Hahn, Sauceda, Overfield, McVay and Shoemaker had 2 apiece. Overfield had 2 RBI.
Oran improved to 4-6 on the season and will face Scott County Central on the road today at 4:30 in a conference and district contest.
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