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MNB Seniors slug enough to beat best from two rival towns
McCOOK, Neb. — Notorious rivals showed they really can cause trouble together as the McCook National Bank Seniors discovered Saturday afternoon.
Cambridge-Arapahoe erased a late four-run MNB lead to catch their hosts at 13-13.
Roy Hoelscher doubled, Gavin Gunderson singled and Micah Gerlach lifted a game-tying sacrifice fly to fuel this sixth-inning comeback.
The Gladiators placed four runs or more during three different innings against MNB.
“It was frustrating. We kept getting them down but then they’d get runs on walks and groundouts,” MNB coach Chris Conroy said. “We definitely weren’t playing a clean ballgame from a defensive standpoint.”
It was a polar opposite in 95-degree weather from the 2-1 MNB win over Gothenburg Thursday evening. Trent Raile pitched a two-hitter while MNB only made one fielding error.
Hoelscher doubled that total himself with four hits on Saturday. The Gladiators also drew 10 walks from four MNB hurlers.
Yet just when the third-year Legion program appeared ready to pull an upset, MNB regained showed We Are One again would prevail.
Miles Pollmann reached base four times with his one walk helping fuel MNB’s decisive five-run response.
Brody Graham had walked just before Simon Garcia singled and Trey Tiller was plunked by an inside pitch. With Pollmann working a 3-0 count, Graham didn’t wait for the walk as he stole home instead.
Gabe Roberts’ walk did send Garcia home.
Quentin Terry — who was a MNB cash-it-in hitting machine all weekend — showed walking was real healthy when his free pass plated Tiller.
However, lethal lefty hitter Espn Hall would not be satisfied to walk anywhere.
Hall fouled off not one, not two but three pitches before lining a double into right field.
Both Pollmann and Roberts dashed home to give MNB its final advantage of 18-13.
Garcia resumed the MNB mound work and retired those first two Gladiator seventh-inning batters. Hoelscher later smacked his fourth hit, but the Gladiators got too aggressive on those basepaths...
And catcher Terry threw out the final runner at third. Tiller applied the final tag which raised MNB’s season record to 11-10.
The Seniors remained above break-even at 12-11 when they split two Sunday in Colby, Kan.
“We shook up the lineup a bit. I consider our No. 9 guy to be a second leadoff batter,” Conroy concluded. “It seems to be working well.”
Pollmann and Garcia both had three hits to lead MNB. Terry and Bryson Gullion added two each. Terry (four), Pollmann (three) and Roberts (three) teamed for 10 RBIs.
MNB Seniors' offensive leaders
McCOOK, Neb. — McCook National Bank Legion Seniors’ baseball leaders entering tonight’s 7 p.m. home game against Lexington.
The Seniors are 12-11 overall following their doubleheader split at Colby, Kan., on Sunday.
Total hits: Quentin Terry 26, Bryson Gullion 22, Tristan Campbell 18, Gabe Roberts 15.
Runs scored: Bryson Gullion 23, Miles Pollmann 19, Brody Graham 19, Terry 16, Roberts 15.
Runs batted: Quentin Terry 20, Simon Garcia 16, Gullion 13, Roberts 13, Espn Hall 12.
On-base percentage: Simon Garcia .596, Hall .547, Pollmann .520, Campbell .473, Roberts .457.
Batting average: Quentin Terry .400, Campbell .383, Garcia .333, Hall .314, Gullion .306.
Slugging percentage: Quentin Terry .492, Garcia .485, Kooper Rakes .400, Campbell .383, Hall .371.
Doubles: Quentin Terry 4, Oliver Corbett 3, Gullion 3.
Triple: Quentin Terry 1.
Home runs: Simon Garcia 1.
Stolen bases: Bryson Gullion 11, Graham 9, Trent Raile 8.