Dufur baseball picks up road split

Dufur led 6-3 in the fourth inning, but Heppner scored five runs in the fifth to take a 9-6 lead.

With the tying run on base, Bales settled in and struck out two of the three batters he faced to lock down the save.

Offensively, the Rangers totaled 11 hits and took advantage of five Heppner errors.

Bailey Keever went 2 for 5 with a double, four runs scored and three RBIs, and Bales had two hits, scored twice and drove in five runs in his five at-bats.

Connor Uhalde added two hits and three runs scored, Curtis Crawford had a hit, scored a run and drove in another, and the freshman trio of Seth Harvey, Cayton Sinay and Tanner Masterson notched a hit each.

Keever tossed six innings of six-hit ball with nine strikeouts and four walks. He allowed 10 runs, two earned, as his defense committed seven errors.

In the second game, Heppner erased a 4-1 third-inning deficit with three runs in the fourth and eight in the fifth to secure a 14-4 mercy-ruled win for the split.

Heppner rapped out six hits on Ranger pitching and also capitalized on 10 walks and five hit batters.

Masterson had two hits and an RBI to pace Dufur’s eight-hit barrage.

Uhalde followed up with two hits and two runs scored and Bales went 1 for 3 with a run scored and two RBIs.

Crawford, Louis Red Cloud and Sinay had a hit each, and Keever went hitless, but walked twice, drove in a run and scored another.

McLaughlin lasted three innings and was tagged for 13 runs, nine earned, on six hits and seven walks.

Dufur (5-10 overall, 3-3 league) was in Sherman today for a league matchup.