The Tri-Valley Mustang high school club baseball team opened their 2022 season on the road at Alexandria taking on Hanson-Bridgewater-Emery on Monday, March 28th. After two scoreless innings, Hanson-Bridgewater-Emery scored four straight runs and held for a 4-1 win.
H-B-E took advantage of a walk and error to start the bottom of the third inning and scored a run on a sacrifice fly. H-B-E scored three times in the bottom of the fourth on two singles, a walk, and two Tri-Valley errors.
Tri-Valley plated a run in the top of the sixth inning. Connor Christensen and Barrett Althoff both drew one-out walks. Noah Haynes had a sacrifice bunt to advance both runners. Carter Sorenson had an RBI single scoring Christensen. Althoff was thrown out at the plate to end the inning.
Haynes, Sorenson, and Lawson Loiseau all had singles in the game. Riley Carlson pitched four innings allowing four runs, one earned, on four hits with three walks and six strikeouts. Kaden Egger pitched two innings without allowing a hit with three strikeouts.