The Sayre Eagles raised their conference record to 6 wins against one loss last week by storming past Blair on Tuesday in a 21 to 3 offensive show. The following Thursday the Eagles met Hobart on the Bearcat field for the second match up in the season in a non-conference tilt.
The first meeting between the two was a conference game played at Sayre March 26th where the Eagles slid by the Bearcats 13 to 2. The Bearcats were no match for the Eagles as Sayre thrashed Hobart by the lope sided score of 19 to 0.
The Eagles used the two punch pitching duo of Rocky Willis and Lawrence Simpson to hold the Bearcats to only one hit in the game.
Willis started on the mound and threw 2 1/3 innings giving up Hobarts only hit, but struck out three batters while walking 2. The Eagles were leading in the game in the third inning 8 to 0 when Simpson came in and finished the job in the remaining 1 and 2/3 innings. He only faced 7 batters striking out 2 and walking one.
The Eagle offense was suffocating as they rang up 16 hits, 9 walks and 19 runs. Zeke Curtis led the team at the plate when he went to bat 4 times getting 4 hits, scoring 3 runs and adding 4 RBI’s. K.K. Beaird and Willis both were 3 for 3 at the plate with Willis scoring 3 runs and Beaird 4 runs off his three hits and one walk.
All nine Eagle starters scored at least one run in the contest.
In the game against Blair the Eagles were just as over powering on offense as they rapped out 15 hits and collected 13 walks to put up their 21 runs in the game. Tate Bawden, Simpson and Willis each obtained 3 hits.
Curtis was moved up to the 4 hole spot in the batting order in the Blair game and he responded by scoring 5 runs on his 6 trips to the plate. Cam Plummer, Bawden and Hanrahan each scored 3 runs.
Simpson got the start on the mound and worked the first 3 innings before Willis came on in relief and handled the next 2 innings before giving way to Bawden for innings number 6 and 7.
Simpson allowed the Broncos one run and Bawden their other two runs. Simpson struck out 4 batters and Willis set down 2 batters and Bawden one. In the two games played the Eagles scored a total of 40 runs while giving up only 3 runs.
The end of season District tournament will be played on Eagle field Sayre and Merritt will battle for the next level in Regionals.
Merritt edged the Eagles by one run in the conference tournment played at the end of March. The best 2 of 3 winners will move on.
