BCCH Picks Up Victory; Area Roundup

VANDALIA -- Beecher City-Cowden/Herrick handed Mulberry Grove a 7-2 loss in the opening round of the Egyptian-Illini Conference Tournament Monday.

BCCH took a 2-0 first inning lead then tacked on a single run in the third and four in the sixth. Mulberry Grove's runs came in the top of the seventh.

Blake McKay picked up the pitching win on five-hitter with one walk and eight strikeouts. McKay aided his own cause with two singles, a double and two RBI. Donovan Riley added three singles while A.J. Miller and Joel Wheeler had two singles and an RBI each.

BCCH is now 3-10 and back in semifinal tourney action today at 4:15 p.m.

Brownstown was a 14-4 winner over Ramsey.

EIC Tournament

At Vandalia

Mulberry Grove        000  000  2  --  2-  5-2

BCCH                        201  004  x  --  7-13-2

WP -- McKay. LP -- Childress.

Mulberry Grove -- Miller, single, double; Sloan, single, 2 RBI; Chrisman, single; L. Jerrigan, single

Beecher City/Cowden-Herrick -- McKay, 2 singles, double, 2 RBI; Riley, 3 singles; Miller, 2 singles, 1 RBI; Wheeler, 2 singles, 1 RBI; Giles, single; Kenter, single; Shelton, double

Dieterich 4, Cisne 3

Cisne led 2-0 until the third inning when Dieterich tallied a run. The Movin' Maroons then took a 3-2 lead in the bottom of the fifth. Cisne knotted the score in the top of the sixth. Dieterich pulled out the win with a run in the eighth.

Tanner Traub had a single, double and an RBI for the winners while Alex Bohnhoff and Trenton Poe had two singles each. Bohnhoff drove in a run. Chris Lidy added a triple and an RBI. Bohnhoff picked up the pitching win allowing six hits, no walks and seven strikeouts.

At Dieterich

Cisne         020  001  00  --  3-6-1

Dieterich   001  020  01  --  4-9-2

Matthews, Attebury (8) and Attebury; Bohnhoff and Poe

Cisne -- Powell, 2 singles; Mathtews, 2 singles, 1 RBI; Attebury, single, 1 RBI; Reiter, double, 1 RBI

Dieterich -- Bohnhoff, 2 singles, 1 RBI; Lidy, triple, 1 RBI; Traub, single, double, 1 RBI; Westjohn, single; Poe, 2 singles; Aherin, single

Stew-Stras 1, St. Elmo 0; Stew-Stras 8, St. Elmo 5

Stewardson-Strasburg picked up two victories over St. Elmo. Stew-Stras won a suspended game 1-0 when the winning run scored with one out. Ohnesorge hit a ground ball to the second baseman who then threw home attempting to get the runner, but he was safe at the plate.

In the second contest, Stew-Stras trailed 4-3 after two innings but tallied two in the third. St. Elmo tied in the top of the sixth but Stew-Stras came back in the bottom of the frame to tally three and pull out an 8-5 win.

Stew-Stras had eight hits in the contest led by Theis with a single and a double. St. Elmo had nine hits led by Beasley with a double, home run and two RBI and Parks and Bartels with a double each. Bartels had an RBI.

St. Elmo drops to 6-7 overall and 3-5 in the National Trail Conference.

Game 1

St. Elmo         000  000  0  --  0-3-0

Stew-Stras    000  000  1  --  1-5-1

WP - Vonderheide. LP -- Flowers.

St. Elmo -- Beasley, 2 singles; M. Maxey, single

Stew-Stras -- Kramer, single; Fulk, single; Bugger, single; Jones, single; Ohnesorge, single, 1 RBI

Game 2

St. Elmo         220  001  0  --  5-9-2

Stew-Stras    302  003  x  --  8-8-0

WP -- Bugger. S -- Theis. LP -- Parks.

St. Elmo -- L. Maxey, single; Parks, double; Beasley, double, home run, 2 RBI; Bartels, double, 1 RBI; Bauer, 2 singles, 1 RBI: Davis, single, 1 RBI; M. Maxey, single

Stew-Stras -- Bugger, single; Vonderheide, single; Theis, single, double; Fulk, single; Ohnesorge, single; Helton, double; Helmuth, double