Lincoln Heat 10U takes two on opening night

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[May 12, 2017]    The 10U Lincoln Heat baseball team opened their season Thursday night at home with a couple wins over a tough Olympia team.

 

Dew Hayes got the home team going, leading off the second inning with a base hit as he and the next nine batters either got base hits or walked and came around to score. Jude Toft, Trey Schilling, Ashton Corley, and Parker Graue all gathered hits and scored, while Deegan Aeilts, Brady Miller, Tate Johnston, and Aaron Roede all walked and scored. Kyle Gellner rapped a double to left field but was stranded on second base to end the inning. That proved to be all the runs the Heat needed as Tate Johnston scattered four hits and a run over four innings and Jude Toft came in to close out the final two innings for a 9-3 win. Kyle Gellner added another single and Griffin Shaw had a double in later innings but were stranded on base.

The night cap proved to be a back-and-forth affair.

Olympia opened the scoring in the second, plating two runs on starter Deegan Aeilts. But Lincoln came back with three of their own in the third on four consecutive singles by Toft, Schilling, Shaw, and Hayes. Brady Miller threw three strong innings of relief, although the Spartans were able to tie the score in the top of the 4th. But the Heat responded again in the bottom half of the inning. Ashton Corley legged out an infield single and promptly stole second and third. Shaw followed with a two-out walk as Corley was able to score on a wild pitch. Shaw would also eventually come around to score on a wild pitch to add an insurance run before Trey Schilling came in to close out the game, striking out the side in a scoreless fifth and a 5-3 Heat victory.

[Eric Graue]

 

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