Playoff Baseball Results for Saturday, July 9th
OA-BCIG At Kuemper- Class 2A District 16 Final
Kuemper 7
OA-BCIG 1
Both teams scored in the 1st inning before pitchers took over the game for the next several innings. Kuemper stranded 2 runners through 4 innings while the Falcons stranded 3 runners through 4 innings. Cal Wanninger walked the first batter he faced, which led to the Falcons lone run but struck out 8 batters through 4 innings including striking out 3 batters in the 2nd inning after allowing a leadoff single. Wanninger didn’t allow another hit, finishing with 2 hits through 6 innings while striking out 10. The Falcons got the lead runner on each of the first-three innings but only scored in the 1st inning. Kuemper left a runner on 3rd base in the 1st and 2nd inning but went down in order in the 3rd and 4th innings, though they had a base hit in the 4th, they were thrown out trying to steal. The game changed in the 5th as Kuemper took advantage of a Falcon error on the leadoff batter and scored 4-runs to blow the game open. OA-BCIG had one error in the 2nd inning that didn’t hurt them but they played well on defense. They made two critical errors in the last 2 at bats for Kuemper, helping the Knights score several unearned runs.
Trevor Rial led off the 5th and reached on an error, Max Irlmeier bunted him to 2nd base and Rial scored on a double by Koby Lampman. Logan Sibenaller singled to score Lampman. Sibenaller scored on a single but Bencio Lujano scored the final run of the inning, putting the Knights up 5-1. John Boes got Kuemper rolling in the 6th, singling to start the inning. Trevor Rial singled to move him to 2nd. Boes stole 3rd and scored on an error, which allowed Rial to move to 3rd. He scored on a single by Logan Sibenaller. Sibenaller replaced Wanninger on the hill to start the 7th and gave up a couple hits but struck out two to end the game.
The Knights finished with 12 hits, allowing just 4. Logan Sibenaller, Carter Putney, Cal Wanninger and John Boes all had 2 hits with Sibenaller driving in 2-runs and scoring once. Putney and Boes both scored once. Wanninger had an RBI. Benicio Lujano and Koby Lampman both had an RBI and Wanninger and Lampman both doubled for the Knights’ only extra base hits. Cal Wanninger went 6 innings to get the win, allowing 2 hits and 1 earned run. He struck out 10, walked 5 and hit 1 batter.
Kuemper improves to 19-16 and will play Clarinda at Council Bluffs Thomas Jefferson on Tuesday on KIKD 106.7.
Kuemper Catholic Baseball Vs OABCIG 7-9-22
Kuemper Stats
Logan Sibenaller 2-4, 2 RBI, RS, SB- Pitching 1 IP, 2 Hits, 2 K’s
Carter Putney 2-4, RS, SB
Benicio Lujano 1-3, RBI, RS, HBP
Cal Wanninger 2-4, 2B, RBI- Pitching WP, 6 IP, 2 Hits, 1 RA, 1 ER, 10 K’s, 4 BB, HBP
Cooper Pottebaum 1-3
John Boes 2-3, RS, SB
Trevor Rial 1-2, 2 RS
Koby Lampman 1-3, 2B, RBI, Rs
Box Score
Teams 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Final
OABCIG 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 | 1
Kuemper 1 0 0 0 4 2 X | 7
Coon Rapids Bayard at Tri-Center – Class 1A Substate 8 Semifinals
Tri-Center 1
Coon Rapids Bayard 0
Coon Rapids Bayard’s season came to an end as they went head to head against Tri-Center Saturday in a defensive battle.
The Crusaders offense didn’t have any answers against Tri-Center’s Sean McGee, who ended up throwing 16 strikeouts. Kolby Culbertson ended up being the star of the show for Coon Rapids Bayard, where he threw nine strikeouts in seven innings of work. Tri-Center didn’t see much success either as the defense behind Culbertson made great plays, including Preston McAlister at second base who had five putouts. Cal Heydon was also solid at first base, getting eight putouts on eight chances. The standstill was broken when Tri-Center got back-to-back base hits and got runners at first and second in the bottom of the seventh inning. Cael Witt for Tri-Center hit the walk-off hit to score a runner and get past Coon Rapids Bayard by a final score of 1-0. Gabe Obert and Parker Hays both got hits for the Crusaders.
The Crusaders season comes to an end with a final record of 23-7.
Coon Rapids Bayard Stats
Kolby Culbertson: BB; Pitching: 6 IP, 4 Hits, BB, RA, ER, 9 K, L
Cal Heydon: BB
Gabe Obert: 1-3
Preston McAlister: HBP
Parker Hays: 1-2, BB
Box Score
Teams 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Final
CRB 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 | 0
TRI-C 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 | 1
