The Girard High School baseball team rapped out 23 hits over 10 innings to sweep Northeast, 14-2 and 14-0, Monday at Arma City Park.
Jeremy Grosstephen and Taylor Graham each went 5 for 7 with a home run apiece, and Logan Cherry was 5 for 6 with a home run.
The Trojans limited Northeast (2-8, 0-6 CNC) to just four hits in the twin bill — just one in the second game.
“Their pitcher did a heck of a job in the second game,” Northeast head coach Jason Clemensen said.
The Viking defense held with just three errors over the two games, but it was Girard’s hitting that sealed the sweep.
“They hit the ball hard,” Clemensen said. “We didn’t kick the ball around, and they just really hit the ball hard.”
Northeast will play host to Riverton at 4:30 p.m. Thursday at Arma City Park.
Baseball
Game one
Girard 14, Northeast 2, 5 inn.
Girard 070 34 — 14 9 2
Northeast 100 10 — 2 3 1
Nick George and Jeremy Grosstephen. Josh Tingley, Marc Graves (5) and Joey Claffey. WP — George. LP — Tingley (1-2). 2B — GHS, Grosstephen, Matt Perez, Logan Cherry 2. HR — Cherry.
Game two
Girard 14, Northeast 0, 5 inn.
Girard 231 17 — 14 14 0
Northeast 000 00 — 0 1 1
Austin Bogina, Chase Cleland (5) and Joey Claffey. WP — Foraker. LP — Bogina. 2B — GHS, Perez, TJ Lacher. HR — GHS, Grosstephen, Taylor Graham.
Raiders fall to Galena
FRONTENAC — Galena pounded Frontenac by scores of 13-1 and 12-6.
The Raiders did manage to keep it close, trailing just 7-4 entering the seventh inning.
“Pitching really hurt us,” said Frontenac head coach Bill Sullivan “I had to put some guys on the mound that didn’t really feel comfrortable out there and that is on me.”
The Raiders’ next game will be Thursday at Erie at 4:30 p.m.
Riverton sweeps Southeast in baseball, softball
RIVERTON — Shelby Mitchell had five hits in six at-bats in the doubleheader, powering Riverton (13-0, 10-0) to a sweep of Southeast by scores of 10-0 and 15-0. Both games were shortened to six and four innings, respectively, by the run rule.
Mitchell was only retired once all day, in the first game. She drove in two runs in the first game and scored twice, and had one RBI and scored once in the nightcap.
Kelsy Anderson tripled in the second game and drove in two runs for Riverton, which had doubles from Mitchell and Kiley Woods as well. Dalaynee Ludwig had the only extra-base hit in Riverton’s five hits in the first game.
Riverton will play host to Columbus next Tuesday, then travels to face Northeast on Thursday.
Riverton baseball breezed to a doubleheader sweep of Southeast by scores of 7-2 and 13-2.
Softball
Game one
Riverton 10, Southeast 0, 6 inn.
Southeast 000 000 — 0 3 5
Riverton 322 111 — 10 5 1
Elana Easterly and Chaney Fox. Hayleigh Sills and Whitney Shafer. WP — Sills.
2B — RHS, Dalaynee Ludwig.
Game two
Riverton 15, Southeast 0, 4 inn.
Southeast 000 0 — 0 4 3
Riverton 930 4 — 15 16 0
Easterly, C. Biancarelli (1), Micah McCready (2) and Fox. Cheslyn Mitchell and Shafer, Courtney Edwards (2). WP — Mitchell. LP — Easterly. 2B — RHS, Mitchell, Kiley Woods. 3B — RHS, Kelsy Anderson.
