After a recent batting slump, the Liberal Redskins have re-grouped. They are playing small ball and doing so effectively. They are bunting to try to insure productive at bats and are playing station to station baseball. And it’s working. The Redskins are proving to handle the bats well and showed further evidence of that in a sweep at Cimarron Friday afternoon and evening. The Redskins won 5-3 and 7-2 over the Blue Jays at Leo Leatherwood Field in Cimarron. And they also hit two home runs and narrowly missed two more in the sweep.
In the game one 5-3 win, the Skins rallied from a 3-1 deficit. The Redskins scored one in the first before the Bluejays plated two for the 2-1 lead. Cimarron scored a run in the third to lead 3-1. The Redskins crept closer with a fourth inning run to make it 3-2. The Skins tallied two in the fifth to lead 4-3. They added insurance in the sixth to lead 5-3. Liberal out-hit Cimarron 12-5 but LHS had two errors allowing two unearned runs. LHS pieced together the pitching. Eathan Hernandez started and went 3 and 2/3 allowing one earned run with five strikeouts and two walks. Bentlee Betts worked 1 and 1/3 scoreless. Bren Kappelmann pitched two scoreless innings for the save with four stikeouts and no walks. Offensively, Bren Kappelmann was 3-4. Ethan Olmstead, Blayden Betts, and Eathan Hernandez had two hits a piece. Austin Dodge and Eathan Hernandez both doubled. Dodge had two RBI’s.
In game two, LHS built a 6-0 lead on the way to a 7-2 win. Liberal scored single runs in the first, second, and third. The Skins scored one in the fifth and two in the sixth to lead 6-0. The Bluejays scored two in the sixth to make it 6-2. LHS added insurance in the seventh. Liberal out-hit Cimarron 10-4. On the mound, Bren Kappelmann started the game and went two scoreless innings with five strikeouts and no walks. Blayden Betts worked three innings with seven strikeouts and one walk. Austin Dodge went two scoreless innings. Ethan Olmstead and Bren Kappelmann both blasted home runs. Blayden was 3-4. Ethan Olmstead, Bren Kappelmann, and Landry Fitzgerald had two hits a piece. Kappelmann had three RBI’s. Kye Morris ripped a double off the center field fence.
Cimarron is 10-8. The Redskins are 8-8. They host Great Bend Tuesday at 4pm with Redskin Pre-game at 3:45 on 1270 and 92.3 FM.
