By Becky Walz,
Warrior catcher Kole Hageman is forced to leave the ground to catch a throw as a Newman player prepares to slide into homeplate Tuesday. (Driftless Multimedia photo by Becky Walz)
It took the top-ranked team in Class 1A to silent the Warrior bats Tuesday and give the eighth-ranked South Winn baseball team (10-1, 7-0 UIC) its first blemish of 2023.
Easy street
The Warriors opened the week hosting Postville in a UIC doubleheader. South Winn picked up a couple wins via the run rule behind quality pitching, defense and hitting, 18-2 and 11-1.
In game one, a Carson Streeter bases-clearing triple was the highlight offensively. Parker Timp picked up the win on the mound tossing the first three innings. In game two Cody Meyer picked up the win going the five inning distance with Parker Timp doing some damage offensively driving in three runs.
“Our guys came in with the right attitude and approach to these games. We were able to get our bench involved and saw some bright spots from some guys that hadn’t played much varsity yet this year. We were able to keep a number of arms available for the rest of this week’s games with Parker, Dylan, and Cody handling the workload,” said Coach Alex Smith.
Post 0 2 0 0 x x x 2 0 7
SW 7 11 0 x x x x 18 11 2
Parker Timp (WP) – 3IP, 2R, 2H, 6K; Dylan Taylor (RP) – 1IP, 2K
3B – Carson Streeter 1; 2B – Jamie Kuennen 1; 1B – Kaden Bullerman 2; Carson Wenthold 1; C. Streeter 1; Keagen Streeter 1; Brody Tieskoetter 1; Cody Meyer 1; Taylor 1; Eric Kriener 1; RBI – C. Streeter 3; Wenthold 2; Tieskoetter 2; Meyer 2; Kuennen 1; Braiden Todd 1; Bullerman 1; SB – C. Streeter 2; Wenthold 1; K. Streeter 1; Todd 1; Meyer 1; Bullerman 1
Post 1 0 0 0 0 x x 1 4 3
SW 3 0 3 4 1 x x 11 8 1
Meyer (WP) – 5IP, 1R, 4H, 2BB, 7K
1B – Timp 2; Wenthold 1; C. Streeter 1; K. Streeter 1; Kuennen 1; Todd 1; Bullerman 1; RBI – Timp 3; K. Streeter 2; Wenthold 1; SB – C. Streeter 3; Lukas Weiss 3; K. Streeter 2; Bullerman 2; Wenthold 1
Versus No. 1
In a battle of two ranked teams, Mason City Newman (14-1) showed why they are ranked No. 1 Tuesday evening in Calmar.
Newman struck first scoring three runs in the top of the first. The Warriors responded with their lone run of the game in the bottom, while Newman proceeded to score nine additional runs over the next two innings. That was all they needed as they got the five-inning run rule victory.
The Warriors had just four hits in the contest. Todd came through with a double, while Carson Wenthold, Keagan Streeter and Kole Hageman all had one hit.
“Newman is as tough an opponent as we will see. Going into games like this, you really need to keep their offense in check to give yourself a shot, and unfortunately we didn’t pitch it like we had been doing for the start of our season. It was great to see us respond with a run in the first off their top arm, but we just couldn’t shut off their offensive production,” noted Coach Smith.
New 3 4 5 0 0 x x 12 11 0
SW 1 0 0 0 0 x x 1 4 0
K. Streeter (LP) – 1IP, 3R, 2H, 1K, 2BB; Todd (RP) – 2IP, 9R, 7H, 4BB, 2K; C. Streeter (RP) – 2IP, 2H
2B – Todd 1; 1B – Wenthold 1; K. Streeter 1; Kole Hageman 1; RBI – K. Streeter
More this week
The Warriors are at Kee High Thursday, June 8, and finish the week at Center Point-Urbana Friday, June 9. Both nights are junior varsity/varsity doubleheaders that begin at 5 p.m. Next week opens at Turkey Valley Monday, June 12, at 4 p.m., in a pair of varsity contests.
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