Eastern Adams County's Only Independent Voice Since 1887
Eastern Adams County's Only Independent Voice Since 1887
The LRS Broncos’ baseball team has a season record of 6-6 after losing a doubleheader to Northwest Christian at home on Tuesday, 5-1 and 16-5.
Saturday the Broncos hosted Davenport and split the doubleheader, winning the first game 15-5 and losing the second, 7-2.
Against the Gorillas, the Broncos won the game with 11 hits. They also racked up four stolen bases and advanced runners on a couple of passed balls and 10 walks given up by Davenport’s pitching.
Tyler Frederick got the win, pitching five innings with three strikeouts and two walks. He gave up seven hits and five runs.
Davenport opened the game with three runs in the top of the second. The Broncos responded in the bottom of the third with five runs; six in the fourth and one in the fifth.
Matt Leffel was 3 for 4 with two RBIs in the game. Cort Ruzicka was 1 for 3 with a base clearing triple. Tyler Greenwalt was 2 for 3 with three RBI. Connor O’Neill was 2 for 4 with a pair of run scoring singles. Jacob Saetre had a single and an RBI.
O’Neill and Saetre joined the team late and have already contributed.
“Connor looks almost in mid-season form in just his third game,” head coach Jason Aldrich said. “He looks real good and is picking it up quickly. It’s nice to have his wheels. Saetre is also contributing well.”
In game two, Ruzicka got the start and went four innings with three strikeouts and four walks, giving up two earned runs on three hits. One batter into the fifth inning Ruzicka had thrown 92 pitches when Aldrich made a change, going with Greenwalt and then finishing the game with Dylan Hartz.
The Broncos scored one run in the second when Saetre hit a groundball to the shortstop who bobbled the ball allowing a runner to score.
In the fifth inning when the score was 3-1 in favor of Davenport, Ruzicka belted a double. He moved to third on a sacrifice, but was stranded.
They scored their only other run in the sixth inning when Hartz leads off with a double and then scores when Frederick belts a double.
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