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 Hits were few and far between in another pitcher’s duel between
Olympia’s Ethan Baker and Lincoln’s Drew Hayes. Singles from Nic
Olson, Owen Alford, and JD Brammeier led to Alford scoring the
game’s first run for Olympia in the top of the second inning.
Lincoln tied the game with a two-out rally in the bottom of the
fifth. Brady Miller reached on a base hit and moved to third on a
single by Kyle Gellner. Miller’s aggressive base running allowed him
to score, tying the game at one, as the Smoke tried to catch Gellner
stealing.
It took extra innings to decide this one. But Olympia prevailed when
Austin Biehl led off the top of the eighth with a single and scored
on a double off the left field fence by Calvin Elgin. Gellner and
Deegan Aeilts led the Heat offense with two hits a piece and Tate
Johnson also reached on a single in the loss.
 The Heat came back against Rochester and got going early when Parker
Graue and Drew Hayes singled and scored on a long home run over the
right-center field fence by Warren Tomczak in the top of the first
inning. Lincoln maintained the momentum, pushing across seven runs
in the second, highlighted by a double off the right field fence
from Dyllan Ferguson.
Rochester fought back, scoring three in the second inning and
another in the third. But the Heat kept up their hot hitting,
scoring six more runs in the fourth and final inning, finishing with
a 17-10 victory.
Hayes paced the Lincoln offense with three hits; Graue added two
hits of his own, and Aeilts, Miller, Johnston, and Kyle Koehler each
had singles in the winning effort.
The Heat then faced the Central Illinois Stix in a home doubleheader
Tuesday night.
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Lincoln started fast again, with their first five batters all coming
around to score in the first inning. Brady Miller started on the
bump, throwing two scoreless innings before yielding three runs in
the third. Lincoln came back to score a run of their own in the
third and five more in the fourth for a decisive 11-5 win.
Jude Toft came on in relief to finish the game on the mound and also
led the Heat offense, scoring three runs on a walk and two base
hits. Hayes also had two hits, with Aeilts and Johnson notching a
base hit apiece in the opener.
Miller got the offense going early in the nightcap with a leadoff
triple over the left fielder’s head. Aeilts drove him in with a
single ahead of a double by Hayes and another home run from Tomczak
- this time an inside the parker over the right fielder’s head.
Johnston finished the Lincoln scoring in the first by reaching on a
base hit ahead of another triple by Toft. The Heat added five more
in the second in support of starting pitcher Graue, who threw two
innings giving up no runs on no hits and a walk, while striking out
five. Aaron Roede came in to pitch the third, allowing only two
runs. The Heat then stretched their lead to 15-2 with five more runs
in the third, highlighted by a triple from Tomczak and a pair of
singles from Toft and Roede. Aeilts came in to finish it off on the
mound for a 15-4 Lincoln win, giving them ten wins against just five
losses on the season.
The Heat return to action this weekend with a Saturday doubleheader
at Olympia.
[Eric Graue]
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