The Sutton Senior Legion baseball team tackled the Class C, Area-5 district tournament in a tough way, as after an opening-round 16-5 loss to Louisville/Weeping Water, Sutton bounced back with an 8-4 win over Shelby-Osceola- Stromsburg to remain alive yet again, taking on David City in an elimination game.
The winner between David City and Sutton punched their ticket into the championship round of the tournament, and it was evident that Sutton wasn’t going to be denied a trip to the final round. Six runs in the third inning and four more in the fourth inning led the Post 61 crew to a 13-1 win over David City to earn the right to play either Louisville/ Weeping Water, or Palmer-Wolbach- Greeley.
During Sunday night’s battle on the DLD Park Legion field, both teams rattled home one run each in the first inning.
Sutton followed with two more runs in the second for a 3-1 lead before going on the 10-0 run in their final two atbats to seal the 13-1 win in five innings of play.
Sutton held an 8-3 hitting edge in the game, led by Carson Mau’s perfect night at the plate, going 3-3 with a trio of singles and one run driven in.
Weston Ohrt drove in an impressive five runs behind a double and single, while Wyatt Pollet drove in one run, as Pollet was 2-2 at the plate.
Caleb Reiners finished the game going 1-1 at the plate, while driving in one run.
Aidan Jones earned the win on the mound for Sutton. Jones’ five innings of work would see him strike out five, walk just one, while giving up the one David City run on three singles.
Sutton 13, David City 1 David City......................... 1 0 0 0 0 -1 Sutton.............................. 1 2 6 4 x -13 AB R H RBI
Carson Mau.............................. 3 2 3 1 Wyatt Pollet............................ 2 2 2 1 Weston Ohrt............................ 3 0 2 5 Caleb Reiners........................... 1 3 1 1 Kaleb Ostrander...................... 0 2 0 0 Cash Parrish............................. 1 2 0 0 DJ Hajny................................... 1 2 0 0 Aidan Jones............................. 3 0 0 2 Payton Reed............................ 3 0 0 0 Sutton Totals-.................. 17 13 8 10 David City-....................... 19 1 3 0 Extra Base Hits: Sutton: Ohrt: 1-Double. DC: 1-Double.
