Chickasha closed out its summer Red Dirt season at Elliott Field Tuesday with a double-header sweep of the OKC Broncos, a home-school team.
Junior Colin Hightower got the 5-1 win in the opener, and sophomore Matt Hoskins got the 10-5 win in his first varsity start in the nightcap.
Hightower had a two-hit shutout going through five innings of the opener. but the Broncos got to him for a run on three hits in the top of the sixth on an RBI single by left fielder Ryan Gibbs.
Hightower got the next five hitters in order to close things out, finishing with nine strikeouts.
The Chicks jumped on the Broncos’ Josh Blair for two runs in the home half of the first when McCrackin singled up the middle, Hightower tripled to the wall in left-center, and DH Chet Nye singled to left.
Blair held the Chicks to two singles until the sixth, when they scored three times, twice on a collision at first.
Christian Fincher opened the inning with a single and then Chance Thomas was hit by a pitch to put two on base. McCrackin laid down a sacrifice bunt right in front of the plate, giving catcher Chance Fariss a bad throwing angle. The ball and McCrackin arrived at first at the same time, and first baseman Lane Smith was bowled over, jarring the ball loose and allowing Fincher and Thomas to score.
McCrackin was still at second, but he stole third and scored on Nye’s RBI groundout.
Hoskins got his first varsity start and his first varsity win in the nightcap, allowing just one hit through four innings before OKC caught up to him in the fifth to avert the run-rule.
A walk and an infield error put two on to start the inning, but Hoskins struck out leadoff hitter Diego McCollum and got two-hole Cole Sundby on a popup to third.
But Garrett Sikes worked a walk and then Kevin Boyes cleared the bases with a double up the right field line. Blair got some payback for the game one loss with a sharp RBI double to left and scored on a drop-in double to shallow right by Conner Thompson to end Hoskins’ night.
McCrackin came in and got Gibbs on a first-pitch flyout to center to end the inning, and game time expired with the Chicks on another roll in the home fifth.
Chickasha spotted Hoskins four runs in the first and four more in the third as OKC went through six pitchers trying to slow them down.
Thomas started the first frame with an RBI single, Zach Ervin scored from third on a wild pitch and first baseman Keith Whitmire doubled in two more runs for a quick four-run cushion.
Chickasha ran themselves out of a second inning rally to leave two on but exploded again in the third.
Fincher led off with a double and later scored on catcher Landon Thomas’ safety squeeze. A throwing error on Ervin’s grounder scored two more runs and Ervin scored on Nye’s single to right to extend to 8-0.
Hoskins finished with five strikeouts but kept the Broncos off balance most of the night.
, mixing up his pitches and hitting his spots well.
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