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.