Spencer, Ia (KICD) – The Spencer Baseball team hosted Central Lyon Saturday at Andy McGaffin Field for a non-conference double-header. I had the call on SMU.

Game one was a pitcher’s duel early between Central Lyon’s Liam Vander Zee and Spencer’s Aaden Techen. The Tigers would break through first in the bottom of the 3rd.

The Tigers would add another run on a Choen Rittenhouse RBI in the bottom of the 4th inning, knocking in Kade Johnson.

Central Lyon would respond, cutting the Tiger lead back down to one in the bottom of the 5th when Andrew Eben scored on a wild pitch.

Spencer would come back with a big bottom half of the 5th, starting with a George Lawson RBI of Aiden Severson.

Jace McCormick would score on a wild Pitch and then Kade Johnson drove in Lawson on a single.

Central Lyon would come back with a couple of runs in the top of the 6th, but Spencer would neutralize those with a couple more George Lawson RBI in the bottom half.

The Tigers would come away with the 7-3 win in game one.

Box Score:

R   H E LOB

Central Lyon   3   1   2   7

Spencer            7   8   3   9

WP: Aaden Techen 4.2IP 1H 1R (1ER) 5BB 2K

LP: Liam Vander Zee 4IP 5H 5R (5ER) 3BB 5K

SV: Cohen Rittenhouse 1.1IP 0H 0R 2BB

Spn: George Lawson 4AB 1R 2H 3RBI

Spn: Aiden Severson 3AB 2R 1H 1BB 1BB

Spn: AJ VerSteeg 3AB 1R 2H

CL: Andrew Eben 1AB 1R 1H 2BB

We had an exciting one in game 2. Small ball would put Central Lyon out in front, scoring 2 runs in the 3rd and 1 in the 4th to take a 3-0 lead. Spencer would spring for a huge 4th inning though.

Central Lyon cut the Tiger lead down to two with an RBI groundout in the top of the 5th.

Jack Berends picked up his second RBI in the bottom of the 5th to regain that run.

Central Lyon would put together a big 5th inning to regain the lead by one. In the bottom of the 6th, a fielding mishap tied the game back up at 7.

The contest would go to extra innings. Aidan Severson pitched relief in the 9th and put together a terrific sequence to keep the game tied.

Box Score:

R  H  E LOB

Central Lyon   7   9   3   7

Spencer            8  13  1  13

WP: Aidan Severson 1IP 0H 0R 0BB 2K

LP: Andrew Eben 1IP 5H 1R (1ER) 0BB

Spn: Aiden Severson 3AB 1R 3H 3BB 3RBI 1SB (Walk Off Hit)

Spn: Jack Berends 4AB 1R 3H 2RBI 1SB 1SAC (Walk Off Run)

Spn: Braden Severson 4AB 1R 2H 1BB 1RBI 2SB

CL: Matt Deiren 4AB 2R 3H 1BB 1RBI 1SB

CL: Matt Elbert 4AB 1R 1H 1BB 1RBI 2SB