3rd & 4th Baseball offense comes to life!

The 3rd and 4th Baseball teams bats came alive in 2 games with CM. The games were played in Zearing due to flooding of the Maxwell City Park with CM still being the Home team even at an away venue. The Royals won both games, the first 5-3, and the second 5-2 to raise their record to 4-1-1 on the year. Game 1 vs. CM2 - The Royals got 11 hits in game one and scored 5 runs in some impressive hitting up and down the line-up. Garret Tiarks connected on solid single and scored a run, Grant Tiarks broke out of his hitting slump and drove a line-drive to the gap in center and touched them all for a home run, Steven Cutler had 2 sharp singles and scored a run, Hunter Beard had a good night at the plate with a single and a double, a run scored and 2 RBI's, Ben Pepper drove in a run on a good Sacrifice, Elliot Morgan had a breakout game going 2 for 2 with a double and a single and scoring a run, Austin Britten collected his first hit on the year with a single to the right side, and Henry Elliot-Rude had 2 solid singles and an RBI. On defense, one bad inning allowed 3 runs for the CM2 team otherwise the Royals had solid pitcing and defense for the game. Grant Tiarks pitched 2 innings, allowing 1 hit, 0 earned runs and had 6 strikeouts, Hunter Beard came on in the 3rd and pitched 1 2/3 innings allowing 3 hits, only 1 earned run and had 5 strikeouts (3 errors in the field behind him in the 4th inning cost the Royals the runs). Garret Tiarks came on in the 4th and got the Royals out of the jam, striking out the batter he faced, Garret pitched 1/3 of an inning officially as 2 base hits to start the 5th by the CM2 team brought in Steven Cutler who quelched any thoughts CM may have had as he struck out all 3 batters he faced to end the game. Game 2 vs. CM1 - The Royal bats kept rolling in game 2 as they collected 10 hits and scored 5 runs again in the 5-2 win. Jared Roberts continued his hot bat as he hit the ball all 3 times at the plate collecting 1 hit, a sharp single and a run scored, Brady Stoeffler had a big night, going 2 for 2 with 2 runs scored and 3 RBI's with a single and a line-drive to the gap in center for a Home run, Ben Pepper had a single and a run scored, Tyler Anthony had a big game going 2 for 2 with 2 sharp singles, Parker Eley got a solid single between short and 2nd, Tyler Helgeland had a good base hit past short and Trenton Erickson went 2 for 2 with 2 singles and a run scored. Steven Cutler pitched 2 innnings to start game 2 and allowed 3 hits, 1 earned run and had 5 strikeouts, Ben Pepper came on in the 3rd, allowed 2 hits 0 runs and had 3 strikeouts before a foot injury saw him leave the mound during warm-ups before the 4th inning. Brady Stoeffler came on in relief and pitched 2 innings allowing 3 hits, 1 earned run and struck out 5 batters. The Royals are back in action on Thursday night in Colo (weather and flood-free permitting)