Two weeks remain in peewee season
The Imperial peewee teams have their noses to the grindstone as the end of the season approaches.
Imperial 1 earned two close wins, starting with a 5-2 victory at Ogallala 1 last Wednesday.
Ogallala 1 started off scoring in the game with a first inning run.
Imperial 1 took a 2-1 lead in the third inning. Singles by Brextin Moreno and Lukas Fries set the plate for a two-RBI single by Noah Rau.
Ogallala 1 tied the game with a home run in the fourth inning, but Imperial 1 responded with its best inning of the game. Moreno tripled and singles by Fries and Destry Oxford set them up to score the game’s final runs.
Oxford pitched a complete game. He gave up four hits and two walks while striking out 17 batters.
Imperial 1 added a second close win Friday at home over Hershey.
Although Hershey scored three runs in the first inning, Imperial 1 had the answer in the bottom of the first. Moreno continued his hot streak, leading off with a triple. Oxford and Lleyton McDaniel singled and Conner Stromberger doubled in the four-run first inning.
A second Moreno triple in the second inning set him up to score another Imperial 1 run and third inning singles by Evan O’Neil and Rau helped increase Imperial 1’s lead to 7-3
Hershey scored one run in each of the final innings, but Imperial 1 took a 7-5 six-inning win.
Rau, Braxton Chubb and Oxford pitched in the win. Together they struck out 10 batters, walked seven and allowed six hits.
Imperial 2 dropped its Wednesday night game to Ogallala 2, 5-20.
Ogallala 2 scored two runs to start the game, but Imperial 2 scored Dylan Miscles, Max Bernard and Adan Mireles to grab a 3-2 lead at the end of the first.
Ogallala 2 added three runs in the second inning and four in the third inning.
Imperial 1’s offense stayed quiet until Mireles scored in the fourth inning and Miscles crossed home plate in the fifth.
Ogallala 2 had a huge fifth inning to seal Imperial 2’s loss.
Imperial 2 was slow to get going in its loss at Grant Friday. After a 12-run first inning by Grant, Imperial 2 held its own and outscored Grant 8-7 over the final three innings.
Rodrigo Robles, Bernard and Mireles scored Imperial 2’s first runs in the third inning.
Miscles, Robles, Cole Duffy, Mireles and Zariah Carman scored in the fourth inning.
Imperial 3 played at Sutherland Friday.
Up next
Wednesday Imperial 1 will be at Grant. Imperial 2 will host Wallace and Imperial 3 will host Ogallala 2.
On Friday Imperial 1 will head to Wallace. Sutherland will come to Imperial to face Imperial 2. Imperial 3 will host Paxton.
After the final regular season games July 1, the tournament will be held in Ogallala July 6-9.