Northmor baseball picks up three wins

By ROB HAMILTON

Northmor’s base­ball team improved to 7–2 with a trio of wins last week, two against Mid-Ohio Ath­letic Con­fer­ence Blue Divi­sion rivals.

On Tues­day, they topped Mount Gilead 6–5. The vis­it­ing Indi­ans led most of the game before North­mor fought back in the late innings.

Mount Gilead led 2–0 after the first inning and boosted their lead to a 5–1 mar­gin after the top of the fifth.

How­ever, North­mor scored two in the bot­tom of that inning and added three in the sixth to take a one-run lead, which held up through the final frame.

Zach Wise­man pitched a com­plete game to get the win for the Knights. He struck out six, walked four and gave up seven hits.

Josh Corns had two hits for the Knights and Zach Fout added an extra-bases knock.

For the Indi­ans, Xavier Har­ris and los­ing pitcher Bran­don Young com­bined to strike out seven, walk seven and give up seven hits.

Nick Gress had a sin­gle and dou­ble, while Gary Car­well added two sin­gles to pace the MG offense.

“I’m proud of the way the kids kept fight­ing back today,” said head coach Buck Work­man. “We didn’t hit well with run­ners on t hrough the first four innings, but took advan­tage of some walks and hit bat­ters and hit it well in our final two innings.”

On Wednes­day, it took an extra inning, but the Knights were able to take a 7–6 non-league win over Centerburg.

North­mor led 4–2 after the first inning, but watched the Tro­jans surge ahead to take a 6–4 lead mid­way through the fourth.

The Knights would put up two in the bot­tom of that frame to tie things up, though, and then scored once in the bot­tom of the eighth to win the contest.

Fout pitched five shutout innings of one-hit relief to earn the win in relief. He and starter Zach Car­roll com­bined to strike out 11 and walk four.

North­mor cracked 13 hits in the con­test. Bran­don Tay­lor had a dou­ble and two sin­gles, while Ron­nie Thomas added three sin­gles. Wise­man picked up a dou­ble and sin­gle and both Fout and Corns had two sin­gles. Also, Char­lie Burggraf had a double.

On Fri­day, North­mor topped Pleas­ant 3–0 in a road game. The Knights tal­lied one run in the fourth and two more in the fifth to win the game.

Wise­man pitched a seven-hit shutout to get the win. He struck out six and walked one.

North­mor had six hits, but took advan­tage of four Spar­tan errors. Car­roll had two of those base knocks.

“This was a nice win for us going on the road and pick­ing up a divi­sion win against a pro­gram like Pleas­ant,” said Workman. “Hopefully we can con­tinue the momen­tum from this week.”

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