Baseball: Pirates shut out Lions for EIAC victory

Greensburg hosted EIAC foe Rushville Tuesday to open the week. Led by the 1-hit outing of pitcher Luke Hoeing, the Pirates cruised to a 10-0 victory against the Lions.

Hoeing pitched 5.0 innings, allowing just the one hit and no runs with five walks and five strikeouts.

Greensburg opened the scoring in the bottom of the first inning when Ayden Sefton scored on the Chase Walsman double. Colt McCalvin followed with an RBI single to left field to put the Pirates in front 2-0.

In the bottom of the third, the Pirates scored five runs. Ethan Smith was hit by a pitch. After Smith stole second base and went to third on a passed ball, Logan Meyer followed with an RBI single. Walsman reached on a Rushville error.

With two outs, Hoeing doubled to right field. Ethan Bishop was hit by a pitch to load the bases. Jacob Duerstock drew a walk to score Walsman. Zayden Miller then cleared the bases with a 3-run double to put Greensburg up 7-0.

Rushville's lone hit came in the top of the fourth inning off the bat of Josh Campbell.

In the bottom of the fourth inning, Smith singled to lead off the inning. He stole second and third bases and scored on a wild pitch to give Greensburg an 8-0 lead.

In the home-half of the fifth inning, Hoeing reached on an error and came around to score on a Bishop double to right field. With one out, Miller brought in the game-winning run with an RBI single.

Miller led the Pirates' offense with a single, double, triple and four RBIs. Bishop and Walsman both had an RBI and a double. Hoeing added a double. Smith, Meyer (RBI) and McCalvin (RBI) all added a single. Duerstock also had an RBI.

For the Lions on the mound, Carter Woolf pitched 2.2 innings, allowing seven earned runs on seven hits and one walk with one strikeout. Casey Thompson pitched 1.2 innings, allowing three earned runs on four hits with three strikeouts.

Greensburg won the junior varsity contest 12-4.

South Decatur 8, Milan 4

The host Cougars rallied from a 3-1 deficit to double up Milan 8-4.

Milan scored one run in the top of the first inning. South answered with a run in the bottom of the second inning. JP Scudder drew a 1-out walk and Brayden Gerrian was hit by a pitch. Both Cougars move up a base on the steal and Scudder scored on Karson Templeton's sacrifice fly.

After Milan scored two runs in the top of the third, South took the lead with three runs in the bottom of the third. Corey Nugent scored on a Cayden Drake single to left field. Carter Tull scored on a passed ball and JP Scudder's sacrifice fly drove in Drake for the 4-3 South lead.

The Indians plated another run in the top of the fourth inning.

South put the game away with four runs in the bottom of the sixth inning. With two outs and the bases loaded, Tull reached on an error to score JP Scudder. Grady Scudder provided a 2-run single. Drake then reached on another Milan error to score a run and make the final 8-4.

South only had four hits in the game. Drake led the way with two singles and two RBIs. Grady Scudder singled and drove in two runs. Tull added the other single. JP Scudder and Templeton both had one RBI.

On the mound for South, Drake pitched 5.0 innings, allowing two earned runs on six hits and one walk while striking out six. JP Scudder pitched 2.0 innings, allowing no earned runs on one hit while striking out four.

Union County 16, North Decatur 9

The offenses were on their game Tuesday as Union County played host to North Decatur. The Patriots scored in every inning except the sixth and went on to the 16-9 victory.

The Chargers scored five runs in the first inning. Wyatt Reisman opened the game with a walk. He went to second and third bases on wild pitches and came in to score on Matthew Fields' ground out. With the bases loaded due to walks to Tyler Dean, Eli Trenkamp and Henry Kinker, Kipton Ruf's fielder's choice plated another run.

After a walk to Hayden Koehne, Gage Gabbard cleared the bases with a 3-run triple to give North a 5-0 lead. Union County scored four runs in the bottom of the first inning.

Reisman opened the second inning getting hit by a pitch. Fields followed with a home run to right field. Dean followed with a single, but was out at second on Trenkamp's fielder's choice. A double by Kinker had runners at second and third. Trenkamp scored on a wild pitch and Kinker scored on a double by Gabbard.

Union County scored 12 runs in innings two through six to lock down the win.

At the plate for North, Fields singled, homered and drove in three runs. Ruf had a single and RBI. Kinker added a double and RBI. Dean added a single. Gabbard drove in three runs to go with a triple and double.

North added two runs in the second inning.

East Central 1, Batesville 0

East Central's Brayeden Reis singled to score Ben Bond in the bottom of the seventh inning to give the Trojans a 1-0 victory against Batesville.

Dane Dudley pitched 5.2 innings for Batesville, allowing no runs on three hits and one walk while striking out 11. Ronan Post pitched 1.0 inning, allowing one earned run on two hits and one walk while striking out one.

Dudley and Post both singled for the only two hits for the Bulldogs.

Batesville's junior varsity was defeated by the Trojans 18-1.

Braden Hochstetler pitched 2.1 innings for Batesville, allowing four earned runs on three hits and five walks while striking out one.

Brody Rudolf, Hochstetler (RBI) and Max Meyer each collected one hit for Batesville.

Columbus North 10, Batesville 6

Tuesday, the Bulldogs of Batesville traveled to Columbus North to take on the Bull Dogs. The host squad led 5-0 and stretched the lead to 10-2 en route to the 10-6 victory against Batesville.

On the mound for Batesville, Jake Schornick pitched 1.0 inning, allowing one earned run on one hit. Brayden Maple pitched 1.0 inning, allowing no earned runs on two hits and one walk while striking out three. Max Meyer pitched 4.0 innings, allowing five earned runs on six hits and two walks.

Extra base hits by Batesville came off the bats of Jackson Peetz (double), Ronan Post (double) and Dane Dudley (double). Peetz led Batesville with two RBIs. Post, Dudley and Meyer all had one RBI. Preston Blessing finished with three singles and one RBI. Tiago Batta, William Huber and Noah Weigel all had a single. Maple had three singles and Dudley had a single and double.