HARRISONVILLE, Mo. — The third-seeded Nevada baseball workforce got here up simply brief in a 4-2 setback to top-seeded Summit Christian Academy on Thursday within the Class 4 District 12 championship recreation at Harrionsville.
Summit Christian (22-2-1) will play Aurora, a 8-0 winner over Mount Vernon within the District 11 title recreation, on Might 24 within the Class 4 sectionals.
Nevada drew first blood within the contest as an RBI double from Nebraska commit Case Sanderson received the scoring began within the prime of the primary. The Eagles answered with three runs within the backside half as Morgan Wilkins tied the sport with a run-scoring single.
Mason Holt propelled Summit Christian to a 3-1 lead with a two-run single to proper area.
The Eagles added an insurance coverage run within the fifth when Nathan Bartlett homered on a fly ball to left area, giving Summit Christian a three-run benefit.
However the Tigers’ Eli Cheaney trimmed the deficit to 2 with an RBI single to heart area within the sixth. Nevertheless, the Eagles made the lead stand the remainder of the best way.
Garrett Ferguson earned the win for Summit Christian. He struck out 10 batters and allowed one earned run on 4 hits by means of 5 2/3 innings of labor.
Bartlett labored 1 1/3 scoreless innings out of the bullpen. He fanned three batters and walked one.
Summit Christian’s Fischer Ethridge went 2 for 4 with a run scored to tempo the offense.
Cheaney took the loss for Nevada. He surrendered two earned runs on six hits whereas putting out six and strolling three.
Caden Klumpp pitched a scoreless inning in reduction for the Tigers. Sanderson, Cheaney, Drake Ketterman and Cade Beshore every tallied hits for Nevada.
The Tigers ended the season with a 17-17 general file and graduate 5 seniors. Nevertheless, Nevada returns a stable core subsequent season, headlined by the lefty bat of Sanderson.