Iowa City, Ia (KICD) – Spencer Baseball took on North Polk Monday morning in Iowa City for the Class 3A State Quarterfinals. The Tigers started Jaxon Hefner while North Polk brought Recce Wragee to the mound.

The two starters would trade scoreless innings in the first and second before North Polk broke the tie in the bottom of the 3rd when Austin Parkins tripled to push Ethan Sanger across the plate.

The Comets would strike again in the bottom of the 4th when Reece Wragee knocked Cooper Spurgeon in on an RBI Single, giving North Polk a 2-0 lead.

In the bottom of the 5th Inning, Drew Owen would walk to lead off and after getting moved over to 2nd on a sacrifice bunt from Austin Parkins, Charlie Bunkers would reach base for the 3rd time that day, knocking in Owen and extending the North Polk lead to 3. After that run scored, Spencer coach Brian Dirkx went to the bullpen to bring in George Lawson who finished the inning by getting a couple of flyouts.

In the top of the 6th, North Polk coach Wyatt Zoske would make his own pitching change, bringing in Hunter Cooke to close things out with a 3-0 lead. The Tigers would jump on Cooke though as Reid Tigges singled and Jake Hallett tripled to score him.

Lawson would keep the Comets in check in the bottom of the 6th, and Spencer brought the bottom of the lineup to the plate in the top of the 7th trailing 3-1.

Logan Huckfelt would double off the left-center field wall with 2 outs in the 7th, but Spencer couldn’t push the run across and the Tigers fell to North Polk 3-1.

North Polk advances to play a conference foe in Carlise for the Class 3A State Semi-Finals while Spencer wraps up their season at 23-8 and their first trip to the State Tournament since 1999.

 

BOX SCORE

R  H  E LOB

SPENCER            1   4   1   6

NORTH POLK   3   6   0   5

WP: Reece Wragee 5IP 1H 0R 2BB 9K

LP: Jaxon Hefner 4.1IP 4H 2ER 3BB 2K

SV: Hunter Cooke 2IP 3H 1ER 5K

Cooper Spurgeon (NP) 1R 2H 3B

Charlie Bunkers (NP): 1H 1RBI 2BB

Reid Tigges (Spn): 1R 1H 1BB

Jake Hallett (Spn): 1H 1RBI 1BB 1SB 3B