Bees take two from Trolls in CCAC opener
Game 2
Game 2
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Trinity Christian | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 |
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St. Ambrose | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | X | 2 | 8 | 1 |
Game 1
Game 1
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | R | H | E | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Trinity Christian | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 3 |
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St. Ambrose | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | X | 4 | 4 | 1 |
St. Ambrose started CCAC play by sweeping a doubleheader from Trinity Christian Friday afternoon at Modern Woodmen Park by scores of 4-3 and 2-1.
A four-run third inning powered the Bees in their home opener. Trailing 2-0, SAU scored four times in the inning on just one hit. Jake McCabe drew a leadoff walk, Zach Hart was hit by a pitch and Kevin Zanger reached on an error to load the bases. Greg Wymer was then walked to plate McCabe to get the Bees on the board. David Gonzalez followed with a two-run single to center to give St. Ambrose the lead. Later, Andrew Barreto's ground out to second scored Wymer to put SAU in front 4-2.
Those would be the only runs the Bees would get as SAU managed just four total hits in the opener. But they proved to be all they'd need as Kane Klais, Luke Bechina and Cooper Sant Amour made the lead hold up.
Klais allowed five hits and two runs over five innings to earn the win. He struck out five. Bechina was tagged with a run in his one inning of work and Sant Amour retired the three batters he faced for his second save.
Jake Sheley was the story in the second game. The senior went all nine, allowing just five hits and one run in the complete-game win. He struck out three.
After giving up two hits and the one run in the top of the first, Sheley allowed just one hit over the next five innings. That was a two-out single to left center in the fourth but Gonzalez immediately threw him out trying to turn it in to a double.
SAU tied the game in the third on Zanger's two-out single up the middle to score McCabe. In the sixth, the Bees took the lead. Zanger and Gonzalez started the frame with back-to-back hits before Wymer drove in what proved to be the game winner with a single to left.
Sheley ran into a little trouble in the ninth as TCC had runners on the corners with two outs after a hit and an error, but Sheley earned his second win of the year by getting the final batter to pop out to Matt Baldwin at third.
Zanger collected three hits in the second game.
The Bees next host Calumet St. Joseph in a CCAC doubleheader Wednesday beginning at 1 p.m.