Tough week leaves Cardinal baseball with 8-6 record

After a 7-3 start, the Cardinal baseball team lost their third game in four days Thursday night in a 2-1 defeat at Burlington-Notre Dame.

Monday

The Comets took a 1-0 lead with a run in the top of the fourth, but Holy Trinity answered with three in the home half of the inning. Cardinal was able to tie it with two scores in the fifth, but HTC walked off with a run in the ninth for the 4-3 victory.

Kade Chance, Cameron Honomichl, Wyatt Gatton and Braden Ridgway accounted for the four Comet hits with Chance, Honomichl and Mason Aschenbrenner scoring the three runs.

Tuesday

Cardinal scored a run in the second, third and fifth innings, but allowed a run in the first, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh innings in a 5-3 loss to New London.

Honomichl, Colby Aschenbrenner, Trey Albert and Jentry Arbogast each recorded hits while M. Aschenbrenner, Kade Chance and Honomichl were credited with the runs scored.

Wednesday

After blowing a late lead that they had appeared to seal with runs in the seventh, Cardinal scored eight runs in the 10th inning for an unusual 13-5 extra-inning conference road win at Iowa Mennonite.

IMS scored first with a run in the third before the Comets took a 3-1 lead in the fifth.

The kids from Kalona cut the deficit to 3-2 with a score in the sixth before Cardinal added two scores in the top of the seventh.

Seven Comets combined for 14 hits and 12 walks drawn.

Mason Aschenbrenner led the way going 3-4 and coming just a triple shy of hitting for the cycle while scoring twice and collecting three RBI.

Colby Aschenbrenner and Trey Albert also had three hits with the Colby scoring twice, stealing a base and drawing a walk while Trey also scored twice and drew a walk.

Wyatt Gatton was the other Comet to collect multiple hits going 2-4 with a walk, a run and two RBI.

Thursday

Cardinal took a 1-0 lead in the top of the second and held it until the bottom of the sixth when they allowed the two decisive runs by Burlington-Notre Dame.

Junior Cameron Honomichl scored the lone run for the Comets.

Next

Cardinal has home Southeast Iowa Super Conference games against Lone Tree Friday and Van Buren Monday.