MWL Baseball 2006

END OF PRE LEAGUE SCHEDULE
Saturday's Games
Eagle Point 12 Marshfield 1
Eagle Point 2 Marshfield 0 McClintock tosses 6 inning five hitter in loss

South takes two at Pleasant Hill
Sam Holman went six for seven with a home run, leading South Eugene to a twin bill sweep of Pleasant Hill on Thursday. In the first game, sophomore Travis Rooke-Ley pitched five solid innings leaving with a 4-0 lead when the late afternoon thunderstorms came. After a 45 minute rain delay, senior Nate Wilson-Traisman pitched two innings for the save in South’s 4-2 win. The Axeman continued their consistent hitting up and down their lineup with run scoring singles by Dan O’Brien , Nate Wilson-Traisman, Ethan Trachtenberg and Sam Holman.
     In the second game, played in winter like conditions, South prevailed 9-6, warmed by the hot bat of Holman, withstanding two home runs by P Hill’s senior standout Tyrell Poggemeyer. Sophomore Aaron Turk gave a game effort, Ethan Trachtenberg pitched an inning before giving way to Wilson-Traisman who pitched another scoreless inning for his second save in as many games. The game was called after six innings.
   South Eugene concludes their pre-season with a five game win streak heading into Monday’s opener at Swede vs. North Eugene. Michael Ward will take the ball for South vs. John Keller for North.
Churchill Downs Ashland 11-3
Churchill's bats showed some signs of life this afternoon as the Lancers pounded out 11 runs on 10 hits. Drew Irsfeld took mound duty for C-hill, throwing 6 innings with 5 hits and 5 strikeouts for the win. Irsfeld also went 2 for 3 at the plate with an RBI. Josh Hogan had a pair of hits, and Jerad Thompson had an RBI double.
     RBI Count: Tony Krietz 2, Thompson 1, Irsfeld 1, Jacob Franke 1, Adam Trautman 1, Bill Witt 1
     Multi-base hits: Thompson (double)
McMinnville 6 Sheldon 4
Grizzles score four in bottom of first. Moran throws solid middle relief, but Irish only get two hits. McMinnville scored four in the first on a combination of hits, errors and walks. Irish hitless in the last 6 innings of play. McJunkin had the lone RBI and one of the hits, while Besaw had the other.

Churchill 5, McMinnville 4 (Ashland Tourney)
Churchill trailed most of the game and Lancer ace Jerad Thompson was roughed up early by the hard hitting McMinnville Bears, but it was timely hits by some of C-hill's younger players that pulled it out in the end. The Lancers had only 7 hits on the day. Sophomore catcher Justin Hoffman knocked in two runs on a liner to right to tie the game in the 5^th. Then in the 6^th, Jerad Thompson drove in the winning run on a double to deep left/center. Thompson went 4-2/3 innings with three strikeouts and gave up 6 hits. John Michael Murray took over on the hill, finished out the inning and started the 5^th before freshman Matt Myrmo came in finish the inning. The Lancers then went with closer Jacob Franke in the 6^th. Franke held the Bears in check to pick up the win. The Lancers advance to tomorrow's championship game against the winner of tonight's Sheldon/Ashland contest.
RBI Count: Hoffman 2, Thompson 1, Krietz 1, Franke 1

Multi-base hits: Thompson (double)

Winning pitcher: Jacob Franke

Jack Carpenter's two out, two run, bases loaded single was the big hit in South Eugene's 6-3 victory over Siuslaw on Wednesday. Carpenter paced an 11 hit SEHS attack which saw contributions up and down the lineup in support of Dan O'Brien's six hit complete game. South combined timely hitting, agressive baserunning and solid defense to remain undefeated at home. The Axemen travel to Pleasant Hill for a Thursday 3/30 doubleheader.

Sprague 4 Thurston 1
Colts in 1-1 battle with defending state champions through eight innings. Straily k's seven in 7 and a third innings.

Sheldon 4 Ashland 0
Besaw goes all seven in four hit, eleven K, 1 walk performance. McJunkin two rbi's for Irish. Irish play Lancers today for tourney title. Both teams have five game win streaks going this year.

Kyle Surace and Grady Wood combine for two hitter. Metzel jacks his second pre league homer, gets 4 rbi's. James Horesly 3-4, 3 rbi's.

After more than week off due to rainouts, the Lancers spent their first outing of the Ashland Tourney this morning knocking the rust off their game. Churchill started off hot knocking in six runs on four hits in the first inning, but their bats remained quiet for the rest of the game save for a stray run in the 6^th. Starter Andrew Schumacher went 5 innings on the hill. Matt Myrmo and Jacob Franke worked the 6^th and 7^th respectively. C-hill finished with 7 runs on only 6 hits. Even more uncharacteristic were the four Lancer errors. Churchill faces McMinnville in the next round tomorrow at 12:30.

Sheldon 6 Roosevelt 5
Irish score 5 in top or 7th to win it. Moran came in to pitch the last 2 1/3 to get the win. Sheldon scores all 5 runs in the 7^th on one hit, a leadoff 2b by sophomore Caleb Carter.
Green Valley (Nv) 6 North Eugene3
Woodke and Stiltner get 2 hits each.
Silverton 3 Springfield 1
Machado goes distance for Millers
Springfield 16 Silverton 15
Silver Foxes score 3 in top of 8th to take 15-12 lead, but Millers come back with 4 to win it.
Marshfield 3 Crook County 1
McClintock goes all 7, tosses six hitter
Marshfield 4 Crook County 3 5 innings
Rexine and John Parrish combine for five hitter
Gresham 18 Lebanon 6 Arizona tourney

Monday Mar 27th
South Eugene 4 Roosevelt 3
The South Eugene Axemen used some timely hitting to ride the complete game, 10 K pitching of Michael Ward in a 4-3 home win over Roosevelt on Monday. A lively crowd including many rival Midwestern league coaches and players took advantage of the warm spring break day to take in the game at Civic Stadium.
Ward, one of the top pitchers in the state showed his experience and grit on a day when he didn’t have his best stuff. Senior shortstop Nate Wilson-Traisman paced South’s offense with two triples in his first two at bats, scoring both times on RBI singles by senior catch Aaron Pratt. Junior Dan O’Brien made a fine running catch in deep right field to end the game with the tying run at third base.
South will host Siuslaw on Wed. and travel to Pleasant Hill to play two on Thursday.
Thurston 6 Crook County 4
Andrew Harris hits two run bomb in bottom of 7th to win it for Colts. Hunter and Straily combine for three hitter.
Crook County 11 Thurston 9
Cowboys score all 11 in second inning, helped by five errors. Brooks Chapman shuts down Cowboys final five innings.
Sierra Vista 9 North Eugene 3
Peterson its dinger number four of season, a two run bomb. Sierra Vista is defending champion of Nevada. Keller and Humble on mound for HIghlanders.
North Eugene 9 Canby 2
Shawn Peterson hits 5th dinger of season, this time for three runs. Shawn also goes six on mound. Woodke closes. Winterstein and Keller pick up three hits each.

Saturday's Games
Sheldon @ Redmond (2)
North Bend 3 Marshfield 3

Friday's Games
Churchill @ Sprague ppd
Lebanon @ McKay ppd
Pleasant Hill @ Thurston
Silverton @ S Eugene
Springfield @ C Valley
Corvallis @ Willamette

Thursday, March 23rd
Roseburg 10 N Eugene 9
Number 1 ranked Roseburg scores 1 in bottom of 8th to win. Peterson triples, Tyler Woodke hits two singes.
Willamette 15 South Albany 0
Hughes 3 for 4, 3 rbi's, Chad Metzel 2 for 2. Mac Marshall and Grady Wood throw two hitter
Marist 5 Thurston 4
Straily goes 7, but Marist wins it in bottom of last inning. Chris Cassell homers.
Corvallis 4 Lebanon 3
Trask, Dziedzic and Cook go 2 for 3 for Warriors, but Corvallis scores 3 in top of sixth to grab lead and holds on for win.

Wednesday March 22nd

Springfield 8 McKay 6
Spencer Lind and Jay Scott lead Millers at the plate. Hiestand, Ruiz and Houser on the mound for Springfield.
South Eugene 3 Pleasant Hill 3
Tyrell Poggemeyer's fifth inning bases loaded double erased a 3-0 South Eugene lead and forced a 3-3 tie in a game that was called on account of darkness. The game will be replayed at a later date.
North Eugene 3 South Salem 3
Shawn Peterson hits third dinger of season to account for all of the Highlander's runs. Peterson and Winterstein (6th) hold Saxons to five hits.
Silverton 5 Lebanon 1
Sanders and Dziedzic(4) give up 7 singles but Warrior bats are quiet with men on base.
Marist 8 Willamette 1
Marist never scores more than 2 runs in an inning, but chips away for 8 rums. Wolverines held to two hits.

Tuesday's Games
N Eugene 12 Corvallis 9
Keller K's six in four innings, goes 2-4 at bat. Shawn Peterson gets his second homer of the season a three run dinger, as he goes 2-3 with four ribi's.
P Hill @ South Eugene ppd
Willamette @ Marist ppd

MONDAY March 20th Three games in the books
Crescent Valley 4 Lebanon 3
The Stolsig report.
Lebanon scored in the first when Brent Trask stole home on the front end of a first and third situation. Nathan Hiebert threw 5 solid innings and was taken out of the game as planned after the five innings.
In the sixth inning the Lebanon defense didn't take advantage of opportunities to make outs and as a result of that and a few well hit balls CV scored their four runs. In the bottom of the sixth, Lebanon picked up two runs when Kyle Dziedzic singled in Brent Trask and Nathan Hiebert. Trask was on with a fielders choice and Hiebert had singled. Likewise came on and walked Clinton Cook and then struck out the next hitter to end the inning with men on second and third.
Likewise retired the Warrior in order in the 7th. ....more

The rain didn't dampen Lancer Ace Jerad Thompson, who threw a complete game, striking out 13 and allowing 8 well-spaced hits against West Salem. Churchill made the most of its four hits on the day. The Lancers struck first in the 4th when Antony Krietz singled and moved to second on a passed ball. Drew Irsfeld lined to the gap in right center to knock in the run. In the 5th, Josh Hogan doubled to the gap in left center knocking in another run. Two more runs scored on passed balls in the 5th.

Sheldon 4 South Salem 2
The Sheldon Irish ran their non-league record to 3-1 with a 4-2 victory over the Saxons of South Salem. The Irish tallied 3 in the first, and added another in the fourth. South Salem scored both their runs in the first as well, but didn’t threaten after that. Tyler Manley led the Irish with two hits and Micah McJunkin added a hit and 2RBI. Alex Besaw was tough on the Saxons, going all seven, allowing only three hits and walking two. Irish recaps

Thurston @ Roseburg
SATURDAY March 18th four games
North Medford 8 South Eugene 2
South Medford 7 South Eugene 1
Ben Kiesse collects 4 of Axemen's 10 hits on the day, including a solo homer against North Medford. Starters O'Brien and Rooke-Lay toss five and three scoreless innings respectively before Medford schools roll.

Siuslaw 5 Marshfield 2
Siuslaw 7 Marshfield 1
Rose strikes out six in two innings of relief, but Pirates only get three hits on the day.

FRIDAY March 17th three games in the books
Friday Games
North Eugene 7 C Valley 1
Peterson has five strong innings against Crescent Valley.
Steve Humble hits a 2 run homer over the left field fence, Stiltner has a pair of doubles.
Pitching: Peterson, Woodke (6), Womack (7)
Sheldon 10 Marist 7
McJunkin hits two run dinger on St. Patty's Day for Irish. Sheldon uses four pitchers to down Marist
W Albany 6 Springfield 0
Roseburg @ Churchill PPD
S Umpqua @ Willamette PPD
Dallas @ Lebanon PPD
S Eugene @ S Medford PPD
Thurston @ McKay PPD

WEDNESDAY 15th Six Games
Churchill Handles South Salem 13-2

The Lancers did a much better job of moving runners in scoring position today with 13 runs on 9 hits against South Salem, as opposed to 5 runs on 10 hits in Monday's game against McKay. Drew Irsfeld led the scoring parade with 5 RBI on two doubles. Jacob Franke added 3 more RBI on two hits and Josh Hogan and Jerad Thompson each tallied a pair of RBI. Andrew Schumacher started on the hill for Churchill and went four innings, giving up two runs. John Michael Murphy and Drew Irsfeld finished off the 5^th and 6^th respectively on the mound before 10-running the Saxons in the bottom of the 6th. The Lancer defense was sticky once again, giving up no errors.
Schumacher gets the win.

Sheldon 8 Sprague 5
Sheldon defeated the defending state champions behind the arm and bat of Corey Moran. Moran pitched a complete game, scattering 6 hits, striking out 2 and walking 0! At the plate, Moran was 3-4 with 3 doubles and 3 RBI. Brandon Hayes, Tyler Manley, and Alex Besaw all had doubles for Sheldon. Micah McJunkin and Tyler Manley also had RBIs for the Irish, and Tyler Martell added 2 hits... Coach Starr
Redmond 8 S Eugene 7
Sam Holman knocks a 2-run dinger for Axemen, but Lava Bears come from behind in sixth to win.
W Albany 6 Thurston 5
Willis shuts down Bulldogs for three innings, but W Albany chips away and wins it with 1 run in the top of sixth.
S Albany 2 Springfield 1
South Albany scores 1 in top of 7th for win.
Corvallis @ Lebanon PPD
Willamette 8 Pleasant Hill 6
Chad Metzel went 2-3 with a RBI Double and a 3-Run Homer. Travis Woodke went 2-2. Woodke, Mac Marshall, Grant Dahlgren, Danny Wallace and Jerred Hughes each had one RBI.