Lynnville-Sully baseball has 1-1 weekend, goes 3-2 in opening week

TRAER — Falling behind 7-0 in the first inning to host North Tama on Saturday, Lynnville-Sully’s Hawks had a tough road game. They almost pulled it out coming back from a 9-0 deficit to score eight runs in the final two innings.

The Hawk baseball team lost 9-8 to the Redhawks to conclude the first week of the 2020 season. Lynnville-Sully had a big road win on Friday at Keota, taking the South Iowa Cedar League game by the count of 8-2.

Lynnville-Sully has started with a 3-0 run in SICL play and 3-2 overall. It’s two losses were both by one run.

The Hawks are back on the road Monday for a 6 p.m. SICL game against HLV in Victor.

In Friday’s conference game at Keota, the Hawks began with two runs in the first inning. They added a run in the third and two more in the fifth for a 5-0 lead. Lynnville-Sully and Keota each had single runs in the sixth and seventh innings.

Senior Bray Noun Harder went six innings as the Hawks’ starter on the mound. He allowed three hits, walked five and struck out nine batters. Blaize Kuhlmann worked one inning, walled one and hit a batter and struck out three.

Freshman Conner Maston was 3-for-3 with three singles and two RBIs to lead the Hawk offense. Kuhlmann had a single and a double while junior Payton Van Wyk and sophomores Owen Norrish and Braden Alberts had a single apiece.

Lynnville-Sully was 8-of-8 on stolen base attempts in the game. Corder Noun Harder, an eighth grader, and Maston had three stole bases each. Kuhlmann and Bray Noun Harder had one stole base apiece.

North Tama chased Van Wyk from the mound in the first inning of Saturday’s game. Sophomore Ryan Annee came on to work 4 2/3 innings and freshman Reese Dunsbergen pitched the final 1 1/3 innings.

Kuhlmann hit a single and a triple, drove in a run and had a stolen base. Corder Noun Harder had a base hit and three stolen bases. Bray Noun Harder, Maston and senior Skyler Sanders had a single apiece.