MWL Baseball: Game Recaps Week 1 March 12-17

Friday March 16 (Three games)

South Eugene 2 Sheldon 1 5 innings

Aces Nielsen vs Schindler - 19 total k’s over 5 innings

In the first of many anticipated match-ups among Eugene-Springfield ace pitchers, South’s Joe Schindler used a 5 inning, 7 strike out, three hit performance to outduel Sheldon’s Brett Nielsen.

Schindler got six of his first nine outs by strikeouts. Nielsen got eight of his first nine outs by fanning the Axemen. After three innings of scoreless ball, the two pitchers had racked up 14 k’s and given up just one hit, a hit by Schindler off of Nielsen. The Irish broke through in the top of the fourth. Dylan Lewis led off the inning with a single to left field. After stealing second, he scored on a base hit from Gaje McDaniel to give the Irish a 1-0 lead.

South tied it in the bottom of the inning on an errant pick-off play that sent Axeman Mike Morrison across the plate. With the game tied 1-1 after four, Sheldon had a scoring opportunity in the top of the fifth when lead off batter Ryan Land stole second base. Land died on the base path. But the next batter, Mitch Lewis, ended up on second, keeping the Irish hopes alive. Schindler then got the next to outs to strand Lewis on second.

In the bottom of the fifth, the Axemen loaded the bases without a hit and grabbed the go ahead run when South’s second baseman, soph Jimmy Grossman, took one for the team on a two out, full count pitch. That sent Alex Wectowski across the plate to put South up 2-1. Nielsen then recorded his 12th and final strike out to retire the side.

The game continued into the sixth inning and Sheldon came back. After Dylan Lewis walked and Cam Herr was hit by a pitch, McDaniel blasted a two-run double to left to give the Irish the lead. Mitch Hebert followed with an rbi single, but the umpires deemed it too wet to continue, and with the score reverting back to the fifth inning, giving the Axemen the victory.

Hits were hard to come by for both teams. For Sheldon, McDaniel and Herbert had hits and Ryan Land was 1-2 with three stolen bases for the Irish.

South pitcher, Joe Schindler was 2-2 for all of South's hits in the game to go along with his 7 strike out performance.

SH 000 10 = 1 3 2
SE 000 22 = 2 2 1

Nielsen and McDaniel; Schindler and Giland

RBI SH - McDaniel, SE Grossman

North Salem 1 North Eugene 0

North Eugene loaded the bases in the top of the third, but couldn't score. North Salem starter Andy Bevans went four innings, giving up two hits and striking out four, while walking three.
NE 000 000 0 = 0 3 1
NS 100 000 x = 1 4 0

Silverton 6 Springfield 5

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Wednesday March 14 (One game)

North Eugene 3 Corvallis 0

Toby Woods struck out 7 while walking only two batters in five innings of work. Kevin Haase shut down the Spartans in the last two innings, just a day after he closed out the South Albany Rebels.

North only garnered two hits (Ryan DeLaney and Wallace) , but took advantage of leadoff walks in the first and third. Both walks were later followed by errors, setting up the Highlander victory. Joe Lindley had a sac fly to score DeLaney in the first.

Corvallis 000 000 0 – 0 3 3

North Eugene 201 000 0 – 3 2 1

Ellenson, Markley (4) and Rockey. Woods, Haase (6) and Pancho. WP: Woods. LP: Ellenson

Hits: CHS 3 (Hanson 2, Karpinski). NE 2 (DeLaney, Wallace)

RBIs: NE 2 (Lindley 2)

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Tuesday March 13 (One game)
North Eugene 6 West Albany 1

Beaver bound Andrew Moore starts off his final campaign with five flawless innings and adds punch at the plate.

Kevin Haase tosses the final two innings.

West Albany . . . . . 000 000 1 – 1 2 1

North Eugene . . . . 100 410 x – 6 9 1

Burright, Miller (3), Spangler (4), Nicholsen (6) and Smith. Moore, Haase (6) and Pachano. W: Moore. L: Burright. 2B: WA, Trader. NE, Delaney, Moore.

Opening Day Monday March 12 (One game)
Willamette 19 South Albany 0

Willamette waded through the rain and Rebel pitching to pick up their first victory of the season. The Wolverines took advantage of a young South Albany team and turned 11 hits and 10 walks into 19 runs. Junior Cole Hathaway and senior Dustin Leber each had 3 hits to lead the Wolverine attack. Hathaway scored all 5 times and had a 2-run triple while Leber scored 3 times and junior Jalen Drath chipped in 2 hits. Senior Trent Waggoner had 4 RBIs and junior Scott Kuvaas had 5 RBIs.