The Brookings varsity baseball team opened the season with a doubleheader sweep of Huron on Thursday night. The Bobcats won the first game 2-1 and the second game 7-5.
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HURON — The Brookings varsity baseball team opened the season with a doubleheader sweep of Huron on Thursday night. The Bobcats won the first game 2-1 and the second game 7-5.
Brookings will play at Yankton on Sunday at noon.
The Bobcats broke a 1-1 tie in the sixth inning and held off the Tigers the rest of the way to get the victory in the first game.
Each team scored one run in the first inning. Owen Schneider led off the top of the first and reached on an error. He then came around to score on an Addison Ronning double to put Brookings up 1-0. The Tigers answered with an RBI single in the bottom of the inning.
Neither team was able to put together much offense the rest of the way. Tate Helmbolt walked with two outs in sixth. He then stole second and advanced to third and came around to score on an error on the throw to second. That gave the Bobcats a 2-1 lead heading into the final inning and a half.
Huron got one runner on in each of the final two innings but was unable to score the tying run and the Bobcats won the opening game of the season.
Brookings had six hits in the game. Ronning went 1-for-4 with an RBI. Sam Johnson went 1-for-2 and Tyson Antonen and Jack Merrit each went 1-for-3. David Brink and Nolan Miles each went 1-for-4.
Austin Clark pitched the first five innings for Brookings. He gave up one earned run on four hits and had three strikeouts and two walks. Miles pitched the final two innings and gave up one hit and had one walk.
The Bobcats jumped out to a 7-0 lead in the first five innings and hung on for the doubleheader sweep.
Brookings scored two runs in the top of the first. Miles hit a one-out double and Antonen followed with a single. Miles scored on an error by the third baseman and Antonen scored on a passed ball to make it 2-0.
The Bobcats then struck for four runs in the top of the fourth. Ronning led off the inning with a single and Merrit was hit by a pitch. Johnson was walked to load the bases up and Clark hit an RBI single. Miles then hit a two-run double with two outs to make it 5-0. The final run of the inning came when Clark scored on a passed ball, making it 6-0 heading into the bottom of the fourth.
Johnson walked with one out in the fifth and came around to score on a single from Clark. Huron got on the board in the bottom of the fifth with three runs. All three runs came from errors. A two-run single in the bottom of the sixth cut the Brookings lead to 7-5 but the Tigers were unable to score in the seventh.
Brookings had seven hits in game two. Miles and Clark were each 2-for-4 with two RBIs. Antonen was 1-for-1 and Helmbolt and Ronning were each 1-for-2.
Owen Schneider pitched the first four innings for the Bobcats. He gave up no runs on one hit and had five strikeouts and three walks. Ryan Lockrem then came in and pitched two innings. He gave up five runs, two earned, on three hits with three strikeouts and three walks. Miles pitched the final inning and shutout the Tigers. He had one walk.
