April 24 2014 FHC Recap

Today the Scots boarded the bus to Ada to take on the FHC Rangers looking for a sweep and their 5th win in a row. Starting on the mound was Caleb Sleeman who was lights out in his first outing of the year in Jenison recording an 8-1 complete game victory. His opponent on the bump was righty Connor Kelly, a sophomore who is also a varsity basketball player at FHC. After trading zeros in the first, the Rangers finally broke through on an RBI infield single to put them up 1-0. Sleeman would be done for the day after that however due to an undisclosed injury, so the Scots had to dig into their bullpen early. The Scots gloves after this point went missing as there were errors, unfortunate hops and misjudged fly balls that led to the Rangers racing out to an 8-1 lead after 6. The lone Scots run was driven in by Chris Clark which is his team leading 7th RBI. There were multiple instances that the Scots could have tacked on more runs but the bats went quiet at the worst occasions. For instance, in the 5th Dan Zeman led off the inning with a double (yes you just read that right, Zeman doubled) yet he was stranded at third. There were other innings that guys were left on constantly and that's what came back to kill the Scots today. Down 8-1 headed to the 7th, the boys put in one last charge to try and rally back and they started off well. Hits were coming in frequent, including the first varsity hit in the career of Danny Paas, and the boys scored 3 runs with RBIs attributed to Joe Stegehuis, Mitch Horgan and Logan Hudson. The last batter of the game struck out for the Scots with runners on the corners and 8-4 was the final. The Scots fall to 4-2 in conference play while FHC improves to 2-4. The Scots will start their next series Tuesday April 29 when they travel to Lowell to face the Red Arrows. The projected starter is Dan Zeman, as he will go for his second consecutive W.