Northmor baseball tops Highland on Friday

By ROB HAMILTON

North­mor topped Mans­field Senior twice on Sat­ur­day as they swept a doubleheader.

In the first game, the Knights put nine runs on the board in the first inning and went on to take a 15–2 win.

The Knights only got seven hits in the game, but took advan­tage of 16 walks. Char­lie Burggraf cracked a dou­ble and sin­gle, while Zach Fout added two hits. Ron­nie Thomas also had a double.

Fout earned the win in the game, strik­ing out three, walk­ing three and only sur­ren­der­ing one hit.

In the sec­ond game, North­mor had to with­stand a come­back bid by Mans­field in win­ning 10–8.

The Knights led 8–2 after four innings, but gave up four in the fifth. North­mor added two in their half of the sixth inning to go up by a 10–6 mar­gin. Those two runs proved nec­es­sary, as the Tygers put two on the board in the seventh.

Once again, con­trol prob­lems hurt Mans­field, as they sur­ren­dered 12 walks to go along with seven North­mor hits.

Both Zach Neu­man and James Don­ner had two sin­gles for the Knights, while Josh Mont­gomery added a double.

Zach Car­roll and Char­lie Burggraf com­bined to strike out seven and walk three for North­mor, with Car­roll earn­ing the win.

On Tues­day, Northmor’s offense was shut down by Buck­eye Val­ley in a 5–1 loss on the road.

Los­ing pitcher Zach Wise­man struck out seven and walked three. North­mor was held to four hits in the con­test, with both Thomas and Corns doubling.

After beat­ing Mount Gilead Wednes­day, the Knights lost a 6–3 deci­sion to Fred­er­ick­town the next day.

The Knights led 2–1 after three innings, but the Fred­dies scored twice in the fourth and three more in the sixth.

North­mor got four hits in the game. Thomas smacked a solo home run and both Mont­gomery and Fout added doubles.

The team would improve to 12–5 over­all and 5–2 in league play on Fri­day when they beat High­land 6–2. The Knights took a 3–0 lead after two innings and added three more in the fifth to clinch the win.

Mont­gomery had a dou­ble and sin­gle, while Corns added a two-run home run. Fout and Wise­man pitched the game, with Fout get­ting the win. He walked five batters.

For High­land, Cade Ran­dolph and Jason Hertz com­bined to strike out six and walk eight with Ran­dolph being the pitcher of record.

Drew Huff smacked a pair of dou­bles, while Josh Gahm added two singles.

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