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HLV baseball tops EV, IV; falls to Keota
By Joe Petz/The Hometown Current
Jun. 12, 2023 8:19 am
It was a good week for the HLV baseball team as they won two of three games to improve their season record to 3-4.
ENGLISH VALLEYS
Junior Max Henstorf pitched one-hit ball over five innings and helped himself at the plate, going 4-for-4 with two RBI and two runs scored, leading the Warriors to a 7-1 victory over the Bears Monday, June 5, at North English.
Henstorf walked three batters and struck out four before being relieved in the sixth inning by sophomore Peyton Roth, who held EV hitless the rest of the way, retiring six of the seven batters he faced, striking out three.
Junior catcher Boston York had a three-hit, two RBI night for Warriors; Roth, Bryer Jack and Camden Kennebeck produced two hits apiece, and Cole Fontinel had a two-run single.
IOWA VALLEY
Kennebeck and freshman-to-be Nolan Kriegel hooked up in a pitcher’s duel Wednesday, June 7, at Victor, with Kennebeck and the Warriors prevailing over Kriegel and the Tigers, 1-0.
A senior, Kennebeck held IV to one hit, walked two, hit a batter and struck out seven in a complete game performance. Kriegel allowed four hits, didn’t walk anyone and struck out five.
HLV plated the game’s lone run in the fourth inning on an RBI single by Fontinel, scoring Kennebeck, who had also singled.
The Tigers threatened in their final at bat, loading the bases with two outs, but Kennebeck ended the game with a strikeout.
KEOTA
A second straight one-run decision went against the Warriors Friday, June 9, at Keota, 2-1.
Henstorf no-hit the Eagles, striking out nine, but the junior right-hander struggled at times with his control, issuing seven walks, and the defense behind him was shaky with three errors leading to both runs, unearned.
HLV had plenty of hits — eight, including two each by Henstorf, York and Brody Sternhagen, but they left too many base runners stranded, five in scoring position.
Sternhagen drove in the team’s lone run in the sixth inning on a single.