Baseball Splits with William Woods; Miller Records Career High in Strike Outs
| Final (8) | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | R | H | E | |
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William Woods (MO) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 1 |
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Hastings | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 11 | 0 |
Parkville, MO – The Hastings College baseball team was back in action Saturday taking on William Woods where the Broncos dropped game one 5-4 in eight innings before winning game two 6-3.
After tying game one on Alliskair Descartes picked up a RBI with a sac fly to right to score Dylan Otto in the second inning.
Hastings would take the lead after Mason Masur singled followed by a walk to Tyler Welsh. Eli Merritt brought home Masur from second with a single to left as HC now led 2-1. Hastings grew the lead to 4-1 on a Matt Lucero RBI double in the fourth to plate Merritt and then Otto would score on a Tyler Kissler sac fly.
Unfortunately, the Owls would tie the game in the seventh to force extra innings and would get a home run in the eighth to take a 5-4 lead. Hastings was unable to find the tying run and would drop game one 5-4.
Merritt led the way at the plate going 3-for-3 with a RBI while Tristan Martinez, Otto and Lucero each had two hits in game one.
Hayden Zaffino made his Hastings College debut by throwing 5.1 innings giving up two runs on three hits while striking out four in the no decision.
Game two saw WWU jump out to a 3-0 lead through four and a half innings before the Bronco bats came to life.
Otto and Lucero got things started with singles to center and moved into scoring position on Kissler's sac bunt. Descartes then roped a 2-RBI double to left to easily score Lucero and Otto to make it 3-2.
Descartes then moved to third on Martinez's single and then scored on Jaden Stone's RBI sac fly to left as HC and WWU were now tied 3-3. Marcus Miller shut down the Owl bats in the sixth and the Bronco offense went back to work.
Merritt reached first on an error by the short stop and Otto reached base by getting hit by a pitch. With runners on first and second, Lucero got the pitch he wanted and deposited it over the left field fence for the 3-run home run as Hastings took the lead 6-3.
Miller stayed on the mound for the seventh and had no trouble finishing the game as he got Ian Hickman to strikeout, Jack Niggemeier to ground out and struck out Colby Caton to end the game.
Miller went 7.0 innings giving up three runs on five hits while striking out a career high 10 batters. Lucero led the way by going 2-for-3 with three RBIs and a run scored.
Hastings improves to 2-2 on the year and will be back in action Saturday Feb. 17 and will take on Roosevelt (IL) in a doubleheader with first pitch set for 11:00 am down in Fayette, MO.
