R. Fick followed with a triple that allowed Marcus Mendoza to trot in for 4-0, Andersen earned a walk and Frisby earned his base taking a pitch to the body to load the bags again. This time, however, all-state shortstop Casperson lifted a shot to right field that required a Dimond fielding gem for the out.
“That was our plan,” Adams said. “We always want to be aggressive out of the gate. Set the tone in the first inning, but it was hard to keep that momentum. Dimond played well defensively and both teams were making plays, so it went down to the end and we battled back. The scoreboard wasn’t on our side today. That’s the way it works. Once again, always a learning experience, and we’ll be better for it the next time.”
Dimond (15-10-2) would respond with five runs in the top
of the second inning for a 5-4 lead and two more in the third inning for 7-4 as JDHS’ Marcus Mendoza loaded the bases and was relieved by freshman Charlie Begenyi, who walked in the first run and a passed ball made the score 7-4. At that point of the game, the base hits were relatively even with the Lynx registering 7 and the Crimson Bears five.
Dimond pushed out to an 8-4 lead midway through the fourth country wise email marketing list inning and JDHS brought in freshman reliever Micah Nelson, who had a strong relief showing in Friday’s 5-4 win over Wasilla.
Nelson struck out the first batter faced, a run scored during a base error for 9-4, and Nelson then got the third out to pop up to Casperson. To this point Dimond had stranded five runners and JDHS two.
JDHS connected in their next at bat, but were unlucky as the blasts all went to the left side of the Dimond infield and were handled by Lynx juniors Drew Dittman and Carter Woodhead.
The Crimson Bears fielded the first two outs of the fifth inning
with freshman Kamden Kissner making a play at second base digital marketing tips for online stores and throwing to sophomore Drew Cadigan-McAdoo at first and center fielder Frisby chased down a fly ball. Dimond would get a single, a walk and another single that went into left field and scored a run for 10-4 but JDHS’ Lewis threw a strike from the outfield to N. Fick behind the global seo work plate, who then cut down a runner trying to reach third base and Marcus Mendoza made the tag.
half and scored on a single by Lewis to trail 10-5 and Cadigan-McAdoo hit a one-out ground ball that scored Lewis to trail 10-6. But Dimond got two outs via a pop-up by JDHS’ Katasse and a strikeout by JDHS’ Frisby to strand another Crimson Bears runner.
JDHS’ Nelson struck out the first batter of the sixth inning and survived giving up two singles, as Katasse chased down the second out and Casperson handled a pop-up for the third.
Madden Mendoza hit a one-out triple in the bottom half and N. Fick followed with a double to cut the score to 10-7, but Dimond hit a batter between striking out the final two batters for the 10-7 win.