May 29 West Ottawa Recap

Today the Caledonia Scots headed out to Holland for the final regular season game of the year against the West Ottawa Panthers. The Scots sent Nick Adams to the hill today and he had his best outing of the year. Adams went 6 innings and gave up one earned run and scattered only a few hits. The Scots scored early today, much in contrary to other games. In the second inning Logan Hudson crossed the plate to put the Scots up 1-0. Three more Scots would score in the third, as Joe Stegehuis, Mitch Horgan and Trent Foreman all drove in one run a piece. Up 4-0, the Scots got a little complacent and a couple errors and walks led to the Panthers getting three runs. In the fifth, the Panthers strung together a few hits and they tied the game at 4. The offenses would trade zeroes until the top of the seventh when the Scots got rolling again. The Scots got a few hits, some quality base running and a few more hits to break this game wide open. Austin Coon started the inning off with a single and it snowballed out of control. 5 hits and 4 runs later, the Scots were up 8-4 and sitting real pretty with Senior Jake JaBaay coming in to relieve. JaBaay allowed one hit but nothing more and the Scots got out of Holland with an 8-4 win. Nick Adams picked up the win, and the Scots improved to 14-10 on the season. The Scots will play again in the start of the district tournament against the East Kentwood Falcons at East Kentwood High School at noon. The Scots will be needing two wins Saturday to win the schools first district title since 2007. Come out and support the squad just down the road in Kentwood.

May 28 EGR Recap

Today the Scots took the trip to Remington Park just off Reeds Lake in the cozy community of East Grand Rapids to take on the Pioneers. The Scots started lefty Sammy Vanderwal and he faced the Pioneers righty Joel Dayton who had beaten the Scots previously this season. The game was a pitching duel with little offensive action until the bottom of the third when the Pioneers took an error and a walk to put a couple runners on and Nathan Kamradt drove them both in to put the Pioneers in front 2-0. In the 5th, the Scots responded with a a pair or runs themselves. Chris Clark scored on a throwdown to second base to draw the lead to one. On the next hit by Keegan Mulvey, Austin coon hauled all the way from second to score on an infield single to tie the game at 2. Trent Foreman bridged the Scots with scoreless ball from the 4th until the 6th when Nick Tuori entered. Tuori got three outs in the bottom of the sixth and the Scots looked to take the lead in the top of the 7th. With two outs, Keegan Mulvey singled to shallow right field. On the second pitch to Joe Stegehuis, Mulvey advanced to second on the passed ball. The next pitch Stegehuis placed beautifully down the right field line scoring Mulvey and giving the Scots the 3-2 lead with only three outs separating them from the W. There was one single but the rest of the batters were retired easily and the Scots took care of business 3-2. Nick Tuori earns his first career varsity win and the Scots picked up their 13th of the year. At 13-10 the Scots have clinched a winning season, however they are not done yet. Tomorrow the Scots travel to West Ottawa to take on the Panthers in the final tuneup before district play Saturday. Note for everyone planning on attending Saturday, the Scots will take on the East Kentwood Falcons who were victorious in last night's first round game over the Wyoming Wolves. In the other semifinal, the Forest Hills Central Rangers will take on the Ottawa Hills Bengals. All games Saturday take place at EK and the Scots start at noon.

May 27 Byron Recap

Today the Scots had their home finale against the Byron Center Bulldogs, who took second in the OK Green behind the Hamilton Hawkeyes who came to Cal and took a pair of games last week. Caleb Sleeman was starting for the Scots, and the Bulldogs sent Tyler Pols to the bump. The Scots got on the board in the very first inning with a pair of runs. Mitch McCallum scored the first run on a passed ball and then Logan Hudson had a sacrifice fly to put the Scots up 2-0 after one. an RBI single in the second put the Scots out in front 3-0 and all seemed to be headed in the right direction. The wheels quickly fell off however as the Bulldogs took few hits and mishaps in the outfield in the next two innings, including one RBI by Duncan Patterson, and took a 4-3 lead after the 4th inning. The Scots bats in the bottom of the fifth and sixth exploded, scoring 11 unanswered runs. Mitch Horgan, Joe Stegehuis and Drake Ellens all hit triples in these innings for the big hit plays. Some undervalued plays at the plate today were three huge sacrifice bunts. Keegan Mulvey had two of them that led to 4 runs and then Trey Roelofs had one that led to a run as well. The Scots ability to move runners across all game long led to the 14 runs scored today. The Scots had solid pitching from Caleb Sleeman, Keegan Mulvey and Dan Zeman as well today and they improve to 12-10 on the year. Tomorrow in preparation for the district game, two of the projected four throwers will throw in the game against the Pioneers along with a few other guys. The game tomorrow is at East Grand Rapids, and the game is nonleague even though they are both OK White members. This season the Scots took the final two games of the series after losing the first and hope to make it 3 out of 4 tomorrow. Game is 4:30 as the Scots are down to two regular season games before district play.

May 21 Hamilton Recap

The Scots played a doubleheader today against the Hamilton Hawkeyes, 2014 OK Green Champions, and it was just not a good day at the field whatsoever. The Hawkeyes were live at bats and had countless hits and scored quite a handful of runs, definately proving that they are quite the ball club. In both games the Scots had the early 1-0 lead, but Hamilton responded well. In the first game Hamilton scored two in the third on a double off today's first game starter Nick Adams who took a tough loss due to lack of run support. Mitch Horgan and Drake Ellens recorded RBIs in the first game for the Scots but that was it. Hamiltons runs in the fourth and the fifth off of the reliever Dan Zeman (one of which was unearned) proved to be the deciding factor as the Hakweyes took game number one by a final of 4-2.
In the second game, Jake JaBaay was set to start for the Scots. After a scoreless first frame, they got 3 in the second to make it 3-1 Hawkeyes. (the Scots first RBI went to Mitch Horgan). The scoring enslaught continued all night as the Hawkeyes put up 10 runs on the Scots, who had 15 different players take part in that final game with substitutions made for various reasons. The Scots showed glimmers of the energy and passion they had lacked in the final two innings but at that point the game had been heavily decided for the most part with the final score in game two being 10-3. After the game, the Scots meeting was uplifting in the sense that they feel they are far better than the effort shown today and will try and rekindle that spark in the three non-league games next week and it will erupt into a flame with district play starting 9 days from today. The Scots next game is tuesday may 27 against the byron center bulldogs at home, the last home game of the year. First pitch is set for 4:15 so come out and support the boys at home one last time.

May 20 GRC Recap

Today the Scots played their final conference game of the year at home against the Grand Rapids Christian Eagles. Trent Foreman started for the Scots and he threw a tremendous 4 innings. Foreman allowed one run that scored on a fielders choice so it was an overly spectacular outing. The Scots bats exploded today in the first inning to give Foreman the run support too. Mitch Horgan drove in the games first run to give the Scots a 1-0 lead. Immediately following Logan Hudson singled in a run. A few batters later Foreman helped himself and gave the Scots a 3-0 lead. Austin Coon doubled in two runs and the Scots led 5-0 after one. After the Eagles weakly pushed across one run in the third, the Scots responded in the fourth. Keegan Mulvey singled in one runner to make it 6-1. In the sixth the Scots scored one more off a Mitch McCallum RBI and up 7-1 had only three outs until they would get the win. Mulvey, suffering from a lingering undisclosed injury, got into a bit of a rut on the hill with a 7-2 game and two outs but the bases were loaded with Tyler Sigler stepping to the plate. The Scots called upon Nick Tuori out of the pen who got Sigler to ground right back to him and the easy throw to first ended the game. The Scots took a 7-2 victory over GRC and with the W took 2nd place in the very difficult OK White with a conference record of 8-7. They now improve to 11-8 on the year and have five non conference games left until district play begins May 31. They play at home tomorrow against former OK-Gold foe, the Hamilton Hawkeyes, for a doubleheader starting at 4:15. It is suspected that the starter for the  games will be Senior Jake JaBaay and Junior Sam Vanderwal and they will face a 16-8 Hawkeyes squad that won the OK Green conference.

May 19 Lowell Recap

Today in a makeup from two weeks ago the Scots took on the Lowell Red Arrows in a conference battle. The Scots started Caleb Sleeman and Jared Malle started for the Arrows. The Scots scored first on an RBI double down the left field line by Austin Coon in the second inning to give them an early 1-0 advantage. In the fourth inning, Sleeman got in a bit of a jam with the bases loaded and nobody out. Sleeman calmly struck out the next two batters and then got the third to bounce in a groundout to Keegan Mulvey at third. In the fifth however, the Red Arrows scored two runs on a RBI double by Parker Groom. Kyler Shurlow then brought in another run to make it 3-1 Lowell. On the next batter, Groom came across to score on a passed ball and after 5 it was 4-1 Lowell in front. In the sixth, Jake Stevens connected on a hanging curve off the reliever Mulvey for a bomb to left field giving the Arrows a 6-1 lead. The Scots put two more runs across to make it 6-3 but that would be all. The Scots left a plethora of runners on base again tonight, with multiple opportunities early to close the door. They now fall to 10-8 on the year and are 7-7 in the OK White which currently places them one half game up for second place with the conference finale at home tomorrow against the Eagles of Grand Rapids Christian. Trent Foreman is on the bump for the Scots and Austin Badka will throw for the Eagles. The game is at 4:30 and is at home so come out and support the squad.

May 17 Doubleheader Recap

Today the Scots had a doubleheader at home against Gull Lake and Portage Central. In the first game the Scots started Nick Adams against the Blue Devils of Gull Lake. The Scots got off to a rough start as the Blue Devils took a commanding 4-0 lead after 3. Despite the Scots scoring on a passed ball, they gave up 2 more in the fourth to trail 6-1. In the fifth, two hits led to even more Gull Lake offense and they took an 8-1 lead. In the bottom half of the inning the Scots responded with a pair of runs to cut the lead to 8-3. Even though the Scots scored 3 in the bottom of the 7th, having the tying run up with a runner on second, they couldn't complete the comeback and fell to the Blue Devils 8-6. Drake Ellens came out of his shell at the plate with two extra base hits in this game. Adams takes the loss to fall to 1-1 on the season.
In the second game, Sam Vanderwal was set to take the hill against the Portage Central Mustangs, also members of the Southwestern Michigan Athletic Conference. The Mustangs stuck first with a run in the first inning to take a 1-0 lead. They struck again in the second to make it 2-0. The offense went completely silent again until the fourth inning when the Scots finally responded. Trent Foreman tripled to straight away centerfield to pull the Scots within one. In the fifth, the game became tied when Keegan Mulvey grounded into a double play but a runner came across to score tying the score at 2. In the bottom of the seventh, Drake Ellens got the Scots rolling with a double. Austin Coon bunted him over so with one out they had a runner in third base. On the second pitch of the at bat to Mitch McCallum it skipped away from the catcher and Ellens raced home without a throw to score the game winning run giving the Scots a 3-2 victory. After throwing 3 scoreless relief innings, Trent Foreman picked up the W for the Scots.  The Scots now improve to 10-7 on the season and have a conference game against the Lowell Red Arrows on Monday at home. Come out and support the squad, first pitch at 4:30. The starter for that game has yet to be decided.

May 16 GRC Recap

On Friday the Scots headed out to Gainey for the second game of the series against Grand Rapids Christian. (The third game will be tuesday in caledonia) The Scots sent Dan Zeman to the hill against Tyler Zylstra. Sigler scored the games first run in the second to give the Eagles a 1-0 lead. In the 5th inning the Scots scored three runs to respond. Austin Coon drove in the first run and later scored on a passed ball to go up 2-1. Coon had a little extra motivation as the second basemen for Christian has been hitting on his girl. A few batters later Logan Hudson drove in Keegan Mulvey to give the Scots a 3-1 lead after 5. In the bottom of the 5th, the Eagles offense came to life. Tyler Sigler singled in a pair of runs to tie the game at three, and then Sigler and the pitcher Zylstra both scored later in the inning to give the Eagles a 5-3 lead. Trent Foreman drove in a run in the 6th to cut the margin to one. The Scots entered the seventh only down one and had momentum however they went down 1-2-3 in the 7th. The Scots fell 5-4 and play Saturday in a doubleheader with Portage Central and Gull Lake.

May 14 GRC Recap

Today the Scots took their first trip of the year to Gainey Park to take on the Grand Rapids Christian eagles to start the final conference series of the year. Today's pitching matchup was Trent Foreman for the Scots against Illinois-Chicago commit Austin Badka. With the rain lighty spitting all game long, and two pitchers who have been very consistent throughout the year runs were gonna be hard to come by. Neither team recorded a hit until the third inning, when the Scots got a single from Austin Coon on a beautiful bunt. Scoring finally broke open in the fifth inning when the Scots clipped on all cylinders. Keegan Mulvey led the inning off with a single, and Dan Zeman followed with a walk. Trey Roelofs bunted them over and reached himself to load the bases with zero outs for Austin Coon. Coon blooped a single over the drawn-in infield to bring in Mulvey for the games first run. Two batters later, Trent Foreman doubled to right field and cleared the bases giving the Scots a 4-0 lead. After advancing on the throw to sit on third base with only one out, Logan Hudson hit a sacrifice fly to bring Foreman in and give the Scots a 5 run lead. In the bottom half, the Eagles scrapped together two runs to draw the margin to 3. That would be it for scoring on both sides as Trent Foreman completed the game and picked up the W. Austin Badka fanned 10 Scots, yet he is saddled with the L. Foreman was spot on all evening and that combined with a near flawless defense behind him kept the Eagles in check. The Scots now improve to 9-5 on the season and 7-5 in the OK White. The ninth victory surpasses last years win total and the Scots still have 10 regular season games left. Tomorrow the Scots will host the Eagles with lefty Sam Vanderwal on the hill, with first pitch set at 4:30. Come out and support the squad as they are still alive in the OK White hunt.

May 9 Covenant Christian (DH) Recap

Today the Scots had a doubleheader at home against the Covenant Christian Chargers, their first non conference matchup of the season. The Scots sent Jake JaBaay to the hill to start the first game and they sent plenty of run support his way. In the first Logan Hudson and Chris Clark both drove in runs with singles to make it 2-0. In the second Keegan Mulvey scored on a passed ball and then on the following at bat Caleb Sleeman drove in a run and the Scots led 4-0 after the 2nd. In the third, Joe Stegehuis scored on an error and then Dan Zeman singled in a run to make it 6-0. Covenant Christian tagged JaBaay for 3 runs in the fourth but he left the game with a 6-3 lead and would leave the door for Nick Tuori to slam shut in his debut. In the 5th, after 2 errors the Chargers trimmed the lead to 2 yet in the bottom of the 6th the Scots scored 5 more runs. Joe Stegehuis drove in a pair on a double and then scored on a passed ball. Keegan Mulvey drove in another run on a double and then Dan Zeman hit a sac fly to drive him in. Nick Tuori threw 3 innings and allowed 3 hits and zero earned runs to earn his first career save, and the Scots won 11-4.
In the second game, the Scots sent Nick Adams to the hill looking for his first win of the year, and the Scots bats once again support per their pitching staff. Mitch McCallum and Trent Foreman scored the games first two runs off of an error in the first to make it 2-0. In the second Trey Roelofs doubled in a pair of runs to make it 4-0. The Chargers then scored one more in the 3rd to make it 4-1. In the bottom of the fifth the Scots offense exploded scoring a plethora of runs. Keegan Mulvey opened the frame with a sac fly, his third RBI of the day (He was 6-6 on the day also). Trent Foreman walked drawing in a run, then Mitch McCallum singled in another run to make it 7-1. Joe Stegehuis singled in a pair of runners, Mitch Horgan singled in another and then Chris Clark walked making it 11-1 and the mercy went into effect. The Scots took both games rather handely and improve to 8-5 on the season. The Scots play again Monday against Grand Rapids Christian at Christian to begin the last conference series of the year. Shoutout to all of the beautiful women in the crowd, and everyone else too for showing up means a lot for the support.

May 8 EGR Recap

Today the Scots, tied with the Pioneers for 2nd place in the OK White took the drive across town to East Grand Rapids to play the Pioneers in the third game of the series, which had been split so far. The Scots were sending Dan Zeman to the hill, who has been very consistent throughout the year so far. The Scots gave Zeman a huge cushion before he even stepped foot on the rubber, scoring 6 runs in the top of the first. Mitch Horgan started the scoring run with a 2 RBI double to left field that one hopped up against the fence. The Scots added two more runs off of an error increasing the lead to 4-0.  Keegan Mulvey singled to right driving in the 5th run, and then Austin Coon hit a sac fly to center to blow the lead out to 6-0. The Pioneers scored unearned run in the second off an error to draw it to 6-1 and nobody would score again until the 4th inning. In the fourth inning, Mitch Horgan drove in one run on a double to make it 7-1, Logan Hudson drove Horgan in to increase it to 8-1 and next up was Chris Clark. Hudson tipped the sign to him, he got all of it and Chris Clark sent the ball 380 feet over the centerfield fence for his first varsity home run to make it 10-1. Austin Coon had another sac fly to make it 11-1 and it appeared that was all the Scots would need for mercying the Pioneers. East had other plans however clawing two more runs in the bottom of the 5th to make it 11-3. That was the end of the day for Zeman who picks up a win allowing two earned runs over 5 innings. The Scots tacked one more on in the 7th on an RBI groundout by Jake JaBaay to make it 12-3, the eventual final score. The Scots had 14 different players step up to the plate today including the first at bats of the season for Trey Roelofs and Nick Tuori. The Scots improved to 6-5 in the OK White and 6-5 Overall, and have a non conference venture with the Covenant Christian Chargers in a doubleheader tomorrow at home at 4:00 for a pair of games. After that the Scots will return to conference play Monday at Grand Rapids Christian, the final conference series of the season.

May 7 EGR Recap

Today on a drury day in Caledonia after a slight rain delay the Scots took the field to take on the EGR Pioneers in pursuit of their first win in 2 weeks. On the hill was Sam Vanderwal who is 0-0 with 3 no decisions on the year. A little pregame speech got the Scots motivated and spot hey scored first on a passed ball to give them a 1-0 lead. The lead was relinquished in the top of the third with a few hits to tie it at 1. The Pioneers scored twice in the next two innings to take a 3-1 lead into the bottom of the fifth. In a controversial play, Joe Stegehuis scored the second run by knocking over the catcher however the catcher was obstructing his path and did not have the ball so it was legal and the Scots drew the margin to 3-2. Usual PO Dan Zeman came up with a huge RBI single in the 6th to tie the game at 3 after an incredible at bat that lasted 10 pitches, 5 of which were with two strikes. In the 7th the Scots needed one run to pull it out and got it in quite the unique way once again. With the bases loaded and two outs Trent Foreman strolled up to the plate to try and get the W. On the very first pitch, the pitcher hit Foreman bringing around Chris Clark for the go ahead game winning 4-3 win. Keegan Mulvey picks up the W to improve to 3-1 and the Scots get back to .500 at 5-5 in the OK White. The rubber match between these two will take place tomorrow at East Grand Rapids at 4:30. Shoutout to the fans for braving the elements this week so far and remember there is a home game Friday so be there!

May 6 EGR Recap

Today the Scots set out to take on the Pioneers and try to keep above .500 on the season with East Grand Rapids coming into town. On the hill making his first start of 2014 was Trent Foreman who has been very solid in relief all season long. Foreman went 4+ today and got only one run of support and so he will take the loss. The Scots bats went silent as they only had 2 runs all day. 9 runs were relinquished off the Scots, multiple unearned due to more errors. This may be the lowlight of the Scots season as they fall to 4-5 in the OK White and they need to kick it into gear to be able to achieve the lofty expectations they set for themselves preseason. They play tomorrow at home at 4:30 against East again with Sam Vanderwal on the hill. They aren't done yet so come out and support as they get things rolling once again.

May 2 Lowell Recap

Sorry for the delay but the Scots fell again yesterday 8-4 to the Lowell Red Arrows. In a continuation of Tuesdays game that was postponed at 3-3 in the first, the Lowell bats came to play Friday and the Scots gloves once again were absent. The Scots committed 6 errors behind Dan Zeman who took a very tough loss despite giving up only 2 earned runs in 5 innings. RBIs for the Scots were Logan Hudson with 2 and Joe Stegehuis with 1. The Scots sit in second in the OK White at 4-4 and will play Tuesday against East Grand Rapids for a three game set. The third Lowell game will be made up May 19th in caledonia. Tuesday May 6 the Scots will be at home trying to stay above .500 in the conference this year so come and support the squad.