SHERMAN baseball player Jacob Justesen swings at an Adam Knepp (not pictured) pitch during the first game of Friday’s Blue Mountain Conference baseball game in Moro. The Culver Bulldogs won the opening game by a 6-4 score, but the Huskies rebounded with a 10-0 mercy-ruled nightcap win.
SHERMAN baseball player Jacob Justesen swings at an Adam Knepp (not pictured) pitch during the first game of Friday’s Blue Mountain Conference baseball game in Moro. The Culver Bulldogs won the opening game by a 6-4 score, but the Huskies rebounded with a 10-0 mercy-ruled nightcap win.
Coming off a frustrating 6-4 opening-game loss, the Sherman Huskies exacted a bit of revenge in blowout fashion.
Brett Troutman drove in Kyle Fields with a walk-off RBI single to left field to cap a three-run inning in Sherman’s 10-0 mercy-ruled victory over Culver Friday to salvage a split in a Blue Mountain Conference baseball doubleheader played in Moro.
“I am very happy with the way we responded,” said Sherman head coach Joe Justesen. “It was kind of a deflating loss. We wanted to beat them, so I am proud to see the way we came back out. We made the plays we needed to and pitched the ball great. That’s the team that we can be. We’ve just got to do it all the time.”
Sherman broke open a 1-0 lead with a seven-run fourth inning on six hits and four errors.
Bradley Moe drove in Austin Kaseberg to start the rally, Wyatt Stutzman scored on a wild pitch and Fields had an RBI single to plate Moe to move the Huskies to a 4-0 lead.
Troutman rapped an RBI single and later scored on an error to give Sherman a 6-0 cushion, Maverick Winslow added an RBI single to score Alex Fields to run the advantage to 7-0.
Jacob Justesen scored on a throwing error to cap the scoring outburst.
Winslow held Culver in check in his five innings of pitching.
The right-hander gave up two hits, walked two and hit two batters, but struck out four to earn the win.
“Mav is a battler. He is always going to give 110 percent effort,” coach Justesen said. “He moved the ball around and when we had a little jam here and there, he didn’t let it bother him. He did a great job and that is what we need out of him. I am real proud of him.”
Troutman paced Sherman’s seven-hit attack with a 2 for 3 effort with two RBIs and a run scored.
Kyle Fields had a hit, a walk, scored twice, drove in a run and stole two bases and the quartet of Stutzman, Moe, Winslow and Alex Fields had a hit apiece.
In the first game, Sherman had eight hits against Culver starter Adam Knepp, but stranded 10 runners, seven in scoring position in a 6-4 loss.
Culver led 3-1 after one inning and then used a two-run home run by Knepp in the third to make it a 5-1 score.
Down three runs entering the bottom of the seventh inning, Max Martin scored on an error to inch the Huskies to a 6-4 deficit.
With Kaseberg at third base, Jacob Justesen at second base and courtesy runner Alex Fields at first base and two outs, Knepp worked on Troutman.
Troutman hit a grounder to Knepp for the final out.
Kaseberg had a hit and two RBIs, Jacob Justesen went 2 for 4 with two stolen bases and Winslow and Treve Martin had a hit and a run scored.
Knepp allowed four runs, one earned, on eight hits with a walk, a hit batter and two strikeouts.
Kaseberg pitched six innings of eight-hit ball with seven strikeouts for the loss.
Sherman is now playing for a second seed and a home district play-in game, but needs at least a split with Dufur next Friday in a doubleheader.
“We’ve got to take care of ourselves and take care of what we can control,” coach Justesen said. “We’ve got to get things down and let everything else fall into place.”
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