Mt. Zion Beats St. A, S'ville Hands BSE Loss

MOUNT ZION -- Effingham St. Anthony High School opened its baseball season at Mount Zion Tuesday and fell to the Braves 5-0.

The Braves took a 1-0 lead in the second inning on a single and two doubles. The Braves pushed that to 2-0 in the second as the leadoff batter reached base on an error, stole second, went to third on a passed ball and came home.

St. Anthony, meanwhile, had two runners on in the first inning but left them stranded. The Bulldogs had a single runner in the second, third and sixth innings and put three on in the final inning but couldn't dent the plate.

With one out in the seventh, Adam Levitt singled and Jacob Guy drew a walk. With two outs, Bryar Jansen singled to load the bases. But a strikeout ended the frame.

Jansen finished with two singles and a double for the Bulldogs. St. Anthony will be back in action Saturday hosting Breese Mater Dei in a doubleheader.

At Mount Zion

St. Anthony            000    000    0    --    0-6-3

Mount Zion             011   003     x    --   5-7-0

Puckett, Gibson (6) and Jansen; Leff, Fox (3) and  Durand

St. Anthony -- Jansen, 2 singles, double; Gibson, single; Levitt, single; Koester, single

Mount Zion -- Leff, 2 singles, double; Johns, double; Binder, single, double; Miller, double

At Shelbyville

Shelbyville came through in the bottom of the final inning to pull out a 9-8 victory over Brownstown/St. Elmo.

The score was knotted at 5-5 after two innings before the Rams edged ahead 6-5 in the third and tallied two more runs in the fourth. BSE then knotted the score at 8-8 in the fifth. Then with two outs in the bottom of the seventh, the Rams had a walkoff single to score the winning run.

Lewis Brown went three-for-three for BSE with three singles. Cole Horner also had three singles and drove in a run. Landon Feezel hit a single, double and three RBI. Noah Flowers had a single and two RBI while Hunter Seaton had two RBI.

At Shelbyville

BSE                        230    030    0    --    8-9-4

Shelbyville            321    200    1    --    9-8-0

WP -- Howell. LP --  Feezel.

Brownstown/St. Elmo -- Brown, 3 singles; Horner, 3 singles, 1 RBI; Feezel, single, double, 3 RBI; Flowers, single, 2 RBI; Seaton, 2 RBI

Shelbyville -- Martz, 2 singles; Brachbill, home run, 3 RBI; Meyer, single, double, 1 RBI; Gottfriedt, 2 singles, 2 RBI; Banning, single, 1 RBI