It was another slug fest between the Liberal Bee Jays and the Colorado Lumberjax Tuesday evening at Rock Canyon High School in Highlands Ranch. The Bee Jays won 22-12 in eight innings.
Liberal scored three in the first. Trenton Uyeda singled. Noah Giovanelli drove home two with a ground ball through the right side. Caden Isola ripped an RBI double to left center. The Bee Jays scored four in the second. Trenton Uyeda hit a two RBI single. Cole Manuel added an RBI single. Noah Giovanelli hit a sac fly for the 7-0 lead. Liberal added three more in the third. Ben Finnegan blasted a two run home run to right. Cal Anthony hit a sac fly. But the Lumberjax responded with a nine run fourth on eight hits. Noah Giovanelli drove home a run in the fifth to lead 11-9. Seth Green’s RBI double in the sixth gave the B.J’s a 12-9 lead. But the Lumberjax scored three in the sixth to tie the game at 12-12. Liberal plated two in the seventh to take the lead back. Cade Adams lined a sac fly to left. Jhett Huffman whistled an RBI double to left center. In the eighth, Ben Finnegan singled and scored on two errors. Cole Manuel blasted a two run home run to center for the 17-12 lead. The Bee Jays launched four home runs in an eight run eighth. Cole Manuel hit a two run homer and Cal Anthony made it back to back jacks with a towering home run to right. Caden Isola admired a two run home run to left and Ben Finnegan hit a two run home run to center for his second homer of the game.
The Bee Jays out-hit the Lumberjax 19-15. Colorado had four errors and Liberal had one.
Ben Finnegan was Black Hills Energy Player of the Game with two home runs going 3-6. Seth Green went 4-6 with a double. Kaden Isola was 2-5 with a home run, a double, and three RBI’s. Noah Giovanelli was 2-2 with four RBI’s. Cal Anthony was 2-3 with a home run and four runs. Cole Manuel was 2-4 with a home run and three RBI’s. Trenton Uyeda went 2-6 with four runs and three RBI’s. Jhett Huffman enjoyed his birthday going 2-4 with a double and two runs.
In relief, Braxon Trenkle went a scoreless inning and Jack Taczy went 1 and 1/3 scoreless.
The Lumberjax fall to 5-17 overall and 2-14 in the Rocky Mountain. Liberal improves to 12-6 overall and 10-5 in the Rocky Mountain. The Bee Jays play at the Gameday Angels Wednesday night at 7pm central time with pre-game at 6:45 on 1270 and 92.3 FM.
