Division IV Baseball at Wayne Trace; Raiders Take Sectional Title

Wayne Trace 3rd base runner, Drew Forrer, attempts to take home after the hit to outfield was caught. More pictures at westbendnews.net

Thursday was full of baseball and softball sectional action including a matchup in Division IV play pitting Wayne Trace with Edon Bombers. Raiders took a slow start as did the Bombers until the 3rd inning when Edon scored 1 and Wayne Trace scored 5. This told the rest of the story as the Raiders kept this momentum by scoring 6 more runs in the 5th compared with Bombers’ 1. Final score gave victory to Wayne Trace as they will now move onto District competition next week: Wayne Trace 11, Edon 2

Score by Innings:

Edon – 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 = 2; 5H, 4E

Wayne Trace – 0 0 5 0 6 0 x = 11; 12H, 0E

Winning Pitcher – Haydn Gillett (4-1/3IP, 5H, 2R, 2ER, 3SO, 1W)

Losing Pitcher – Carson Brandt (3IP, 5H, 5R, 3ER, 1SO, 4W)

Save – Grant Baumle (2-2/3IP, 0H, 0R, 0ER, 4SO, 0W)

Other Edon Pitchers – Austin Kiess, Aidan Muehlfeld

Wayne Trace Hitters – Haydn Gillett (single, double, two runs, two runs batted in), Caleb Schaefer (two singles, run), Reid Miller (two singles, two runs), Korbin Slade (single, run batted in), Eli Sinn (single, run), Quinton Stabler (single, double, run, two runs batted in), Reece Thompson (single, run batted in), Trevor Speice (double, run, run batted in)

Edon Hitters – Carson Brandt (single, run batted in), Kelby Sapp (single), Shane Zulch (double, run), Nathan Myers (single, run), Dylan Mason (single)