Knights finish in tie for Blue title

By ROB HAMILTON

North­mor fin­ished the reg­u­lar sea­son in a three-way tie for first place in the Mid-Ohio Ath­letic Con­fer­ence Blue Division.

The Knights won two of three league games last week to fin­ish 6–5 in the league. That record tied them with Card­ing­ton and Pleasant.

Their week started with a 12–2 win over Mount Gilead last Mon­day. North­mor scored three in the first and then added four in both the third and fifth to move in front by an 11–2 mar­gin. One more run in the sixth ended the game, per the 10-run rule.

Zach Fout took the win, pitch­ing a three-hitter. He struck out five and walked five.

North­mor banged out eight hits in the con­test, with Josh Corns hav­ing a dou­ble and sin­gle and Char­lie Burggraf added two singles.

For Mount Gilead, Zach Sturges, Nick Gress, Jake Sturges, Bran­don Young and Tyler Bashaw com­bined to strike out three and walk 17.

“We did a nice job at the plate and tak­ing what they gave us,” said North­mor coach Buck Work­man. “We had some key hits when we needed them and scored a lot of runs with two outs.”

The Knights then got a big league win Thurs­day against Card­ing­ton, who had topped them ear­lier in the sea­son. This time, North­mor broke open a score­less tie in the fourth with a huge 13-run inning and went on to win 13–0 in five.

Zach Wise­man pitched a two-hitter, strik­ing out eight and walk­ing one to earn the win. Corns had a two-run homer and sin­gle, while Fout added a two-run homer and dou­ble and Wise­man helped his cause with two hits. Josh Mont­gomery added a double.

Cardington’s Zach Lothes, Justin Blan­ton and Cody Hitch­man com­bined to strike out one and walk six, while sur­ren­der­ing eight hits. K.C. Brown smacked a dou­ble for the Pirates.

How­ever, the Knights would not get sole pos­ses­sion of the Blue title, as they dropped a 7–6 deci­sion at River Val­ley Fri­day. Seven errors led to four of those Viking runs being unearned.

The Knights scored four in the top of the first, but the Vikings had tied the score at five after two frames.

After North­mor took a one-run lead in the third, they were held score­less the rest of the way. River Val­ley tied the score in the fourth and went ahead in the sixth to take the win.

Wise­man and Zach Car­roll, who suf­fered the loss, com­bined to strike out four and walk three, while giv­ing up nine hits.

North­mor was held to four hits, with Mont­gomery smack­ing a double.

Posted by Rob Hamilton on May 9 2012. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS Feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.