Bellefontaine’s baseball team stayed in a first-place tie in the Central Buckeye Conference Kenton Trail division by beating visiting Springfield Shawnee 9-4 in a critical league contest Monday.
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Bellefontaine’s Cole Braun dives across home plate to score a run during Monday’s home game against Springfield Shawnee. (EXAMINER PHOTO | MATT HAMMOND) |
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Shawnee drops to 9-4, 4-3.
Monday’s game pitted two of the league’s best pitchers against each other in Bellefontaine’s Tyler Jones and Shawnee’s Seth Gray.
Both Jones and Gray are headed to Division I colleges next year, Jones to Dayton and Gray to Wright State.
Jones and the Chiefs got the best of Gray and his Braves.
Jones went the distance on the mound. He struck out three, allowed six hits, three earned runs and four walks.
The Chiefs got to Gray for eight hits and eight total runs (five earned). Gray struck out five and walked two in 5 1/3 innings.
Each team scored a run in the first and Shawnee plated two runs in the top of the third for a 3-1 lead.
However, Bellefontaine struck back with three runs in the bottom of the third for a 4-3 advantage.
The fourth inning saw each squad push a run across for a 5-4 score.
Bellefontaine then took control for good in the sixth with four runs.
Clay Wisner had a big day at the plate for the Chiefs, going 3-4 with a double and three RBI.
Also for the Chiefs, Cole Braun had a double, Turner Scott was 2-3 with an RBI, Connor Burton had two RBI and Chase Braun went 2-4 with an RBI.
The two teams meet again today at Shawnee.
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