Nowthen's Season Ends
The Knights took on the Braham Snappers in the opening round of the play-in tournanment. Things got off to a rough start for Nowthen as the Snappers put up three in the top of the first. The score held at 3-0 until the bottom of the 6th. Jacob Miller was hit by a pitch and would come in to score making it 3-1.
In the bottom of the 7th Nowthen's offense came to life starting with a one out opposite field double by Jesse Astrup. Riley Givens drew a walk, Jacob Miller singled loading the bases for Terry Hadden. Terry singled bringing Jesse in putting the score at 3-2. After a Braham pitching change Dustin Rode drew a four-pitch walk knotting the score at 3. Grant Kotaska who put one off the wall in left earlier in the game delivered another double bringing Jacob, Terry, and Dustin in and giving the Knights their first lead of the game. Grant would later score on a double by Gavin Carey making it 7-3 after 7.
In the 8th the Knights extended their lead. Jesse led off with a single. Riley reached on an error and Jacob singled. Dustin doubled to left clearing the bases. Dustin would score on a Joey Dickey single.
Zane Christianson got the start going 7 innings allowing 3 runs and striking out 8. Outside of the first inning he ran into little trouble while limiting walks.
End of the season stats and notes
Terry led the offense in hits(19) and hitting .306
Jacob led in runs(13), was second in hits(16), and tied for the team lead in extra base hits with 4 doubles.
Matt Johnson had the teams only homerun and tied for the team lead in RBI(8) with Gavin Carey.
On the mound Parker Burman led the team in innings with 26.2 along with collecting 1 of 4 wins on the year
Kyle Bookey had 2 of the teams 4 wins(Clear Lake and Ogilvie) to go with 14 strikeouts in 11.1 IP.
Zane led the team in strikeouts(25) over 24.2 IP and collecting a win over Braham.
