Staff Reports
It’s tough when you’re opponent jumps on top right away, but it’s just part of the game.
The Winner/Colome Pheasants weren’t able to overcome an early 5-0 gap that would ultimately result in a 7-2 road loss to the Alexandria Angels in a recent game.
At the start, Alexandria got hot.
Alexandria hit a home run in the first inning that sent in two batters. In the second, the Angels scored three runs to give them a 5-0 lead early. But the Pheasants weren’t done yet.
In the fourth inning, JJ Farner helped to score the only two runs for the Pheasants which would give him his two RBI on the night. No other Pheasant players would finish with an RBI.
The Angels put the game away by hitting their second homerun of the even which helped score two runs.
Kelly O’Bryan and Connor Hopkins pitched for the Pheasants. The duo would combine to go eight innings, allow seven hits, seven runs and strike out eight batters.
A win is a win.
The Winner/Colome amateur baseball snuck out a 5-4 win over the Platte Killer Tomatoes last Thursday night at Leahy Bowl.
The Pheasants grabbed a 4-0 lead after five innings, but the Killer Tomatoes weren’t done yet.
Platte scored three runs in the eighth inning, and added one more run in the ninth to tie the game at four. The Pheasants needed someone to step up at the bottom of the ninth.
Dillon Lambley stepped up.
Lambley hadn’t had a single hit at four trips up to the plate, but the only hit that he would garner on the evening couldn’t have come at a better time.
Lambley hit a walk-off fielder’s choice that may have gotten himself out, but got the win for the Pheasants in crunch time.
Reed Harter also had himself a big night. Harter hit got three hits on four at-bats on the night. Harter finished with an RBI, a triple and a double.
Derek Graesser had a solid overall game as the Pheasants lone pitcher. Graesser pithed all nine innings for Winner/Colome and allowed only four runs. Graesser would also silence 11 Platte batters.
The Winner/Colome Pheasants continue to real in the wins.
After a 7-1 win over the Wagner Rockets in Wagner, the Pheasants are now 13-3 on the season.
The Pheasants scored seven runs in the first nine innings before Wagner put up a run in the ninth.
Derek Graesser lead the way for Winner/Colome by going 2-for-4 from the plate. Graesser would lead the Pheasants with two RBI. Reed Harter, Zach Harter, Austin Calhoon, and Connor Hopkins all finished the game with an RBI.
While the hitting was fantastic, the pitching for the Pheasants mighty have been on a whole other level.
JJ Farner pitched a no-hitter, and went all nine innings. Farner would pitch a total of 145 pitches while striking out 17 batters.
Winner/Colome 4-Mt. Vernon 2
Winner/Colome Pheasants defeated Mt. Vernon 4-2 on Thursday at Leahy Bowl.
The game was tied at 2 with the Pheasants battling in the bottom of the sixth inning when Dillon Lambley singled on a 1-1 count scoring two runs.
Winner/Colome got on the board in the first inning when Zach Harter grounded out scoring one run.
The Pheasants took the lead for good scoring three runs in the sixth inning.
Connor Hopkins pitched Winner/Colome to victory. He surrendered two runs on four hits over seven innings striking out five. Kelly O’Bryan threw two innings in relief.
Reed Harter had a triple and Austin Calhoon belted a double. Calhoon led the local team at the plate as he was 3-4.
The next action for the Pheasants will be in the Sunshine League tournament in Parkston on July 25 at 8 p.m. The Pheasants cinched the No. 2 spot.
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