By Becky Walz,
Facing tough competition to open the week, the Turkey Valley baseball team (5-17, 2-12 UIC) dropped three games.
Facing tough competition to open the week, the Turkey Valley baseball team (5-17, 2-12 UIC) dropped three games.
Against the Bulldogs
Monday night, the Trojans traveled to MFL MarMac (14-8, 9-5 UIC).
Game one was a close one with the Bulldogs holding a 4-2 lead through the first three frames. The game got away from the Trojans when MFL MarMac scored three runs in the bottom of the sixth to defeat the visitors, 7-2.
Caleb Kurtenbach suffered the loss in his six innings on the hill with four Ks, giving up seven runs on eight hits and issuing five walks. Of the Trojans’ five hits, Carson Busta had two doubles and drove in a run. Other hits were knocked out by Dylan Reicks, Calvin Bodensteiner and Oliver Schmitt.
Holding on to the lead late in the nightcap, the Trojans swallowed a tough 9-8 loss.
With MFL MarMac leading 3-1, the Turkey Valley offense went to work in the fourth, scoring five runs that began with a Garrett Kurtenbach double. The Bulldogs answered with two of their own in the bottom of the fourth. TV once again plated runs in the fifth, adding two more to its lead making it 8-5. However, it was the Bulldogs’ night as the scored four times in the closing two innings for the victory.
On the mound for the Trojans for six innings was Noah Hanson with eight Ks with G. Kurtenbach suffering the loss in the seventh frame.
C. Busta rapped out a triple and double to go with two RBI. G. Kurtenbach, Hanson and Schmitt also had doubles in the contest.
R H E
T. Valley 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 2 5 1
MFL MM 1 3 0 0 0 3 x 7 8 1
Caleb Kurtenbach (LP) – 6IP, 7R, 8H, 5BB, 4K
2B – Carson Busta 2; 1B – Dylan Reicks 1; Calvin Bodensteiner 1; Oliver Schmitt 1; RBI – C. Busta 1; Bodensteiner 1; SB – Bodensteiner 2
R H E
T. Valley 1 0 0 5 2 0 0 8 9 6
MFL MM 2 1 0 2 0 3 1 9 9 0
Garrett Kurtenbach (LP) – 1R, 1H, 1BB; Noah Hanson (SP) – 6IP, 8R, 8H, 1BB, 8K
3B – C. Busta 1; 2B – G. Kurtenbach 2; C. Busta 1; Hanson 1; Schmitt 1; 1B – Bodensteiner 2; RBI – C. Busta 2; Reicks 1; Bodensteiner 1; Garrett Dietzenbach 1; Brennen Drilling 1; Aidan Holthaus 1
A little short
It was another one-run game Tuesday night with the Trojans falling 4-3 to Clayton Ridge-Central (5-17, 5-10 UIC) at home.
CR-C took the early lead, only to have Turkey Valley answer in the bottom of the first on a C. Busta single and a WarEagle error. The junior later scored on a wild pitch. With CR-C leading 3-1 into the fifth frame, the Trojans knotted the score when C. Kurtenbach rapped out a double and scored on an error. Another WarEagle error allowed Dylan Reicks to reach base. He then stole second and later scored on a wild pitch. The visitors retook the lead in the sixth on a pair of singles, for the eventual win.
“This was a great effort by our guys, they just came up a little short,” said Coach Dan Stepan.
Bodensteiner shouldered the loss on the mound with seven strikeouts.
R H E
Cl. Ridge 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 4 8 4
T. Valley 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 3 3 3
Bodensteiner (LP) – 7IP, 4R, 8H, 2BB, 7K
2B – C. Kurtenbach 1; 1B – C. Busta 1; Bodensteiner 1; SB – Bodensteiner 2; Reicks 1; Hanson 1; Chase Hayek 1
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