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March 8, 2010

Owls’ errors help lift Am-Po run-rule victory

By CHUCK LARSEN

Sports Editor



NINNEKAH – Tom Hurst’s Owls had only had been out on Gene McNatt Field twice before Thursday’s baseball home opener with Amber-Pocasset and their defense looked like it.

Ninnekah committed 15 errors, ten of them in the Panther third, to let Am-Po head home with a 16-7 run-rule win.

They did score seven runs, enough to win on most nights, and, to their credit, never quit in spite of the disastrous third inning.

They led 2-1 after the first on complementing RBI doubles from the catchers, Am-Po’s Zach Warner and the Owls’ Denver Williams, and an RBI single by shortstop Devin Robnett.

Ninnekah pitcher Dallas Williams got the Panthers in order in the second but the wheels fell off in the third. Am-Po sent 15 hitters up in a marathon, chasing Williams and roughing up reliever Brody Shaw while piling on eleven unearned runs.

Hurst implored his kids to stay with it and get the bats going, and they did, scoring a run in the home half, holding Amber off in the top of the fourth then coming in and scoring three more runs on four hits to cut the huge lead in half.

But pitcher Chance Green’s RBI single and another error plated two runs in the fifth and three more errors in the sixth handed Am-Po two more, both unearned.

The last two turned out to be the deciders.

Dallas Williams singled off reliever Levi Garrett with one out in the Owl sixth and Denver dropped a seeing-eye double into right field, but a bullet from Jared Sneed gunned Dallas down at the plate.

Robnett’s single to left scored Denver to get within two runs of extending the game, but Garrett finished it with a swinging strikeout to end it.

On deck for Am-Po (2-0) is a home three-way with Sterling and Verden Saturday at 1 p.m. and for Ninnekah (0-1), a visit from Alex on Tuesday at 4:30. Owls’ errors help lift Am-Po run-rule victory

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