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.