The Baltic high school baseball team traveled to Lennox on Monday, April 6th. Lennox rallied for seven runs in the bottom of the sixth to help them to a 13-10 come-from-behind win.
Lennox scored the first two runs of the game in the bottom of the first inning. Baltic bounced back with a six-run top of the second. Elias Oakley and Cale Roach each drew a bases-loaded walk to tie the game 2-2. Jackson Goehring followed with a two-run single. Isaac Oakley drove home another run on a fielder’s choice ground ball. Goehring would score later in the inning to give Baltic a 6-2 lead. They added three more runs in the top of the third on an RBI singles by E. Oakley and Goehring. E. Oakley also stole home in the inning for a 9-2 lead.
Lennox would add two runs in the bottom of the third and another two runs in the bottom of the fourth to cut the lead to 9-6. After a scoreless fifth inning, Lennox held Baltic scoreless in the top of the sixth. They then had their seven-run bottom of the sixth to go back in front 13-9. I. Oakley drew a two-out bases loaded walk in the top of the seventh.
Goehring finished with three hits and three RBIs. E. Oakley added a single with two RBIs. Zach Helgeson and Bradyn Hanson each had a hit. I. Oakley had two RBIs, and Roach had one RBI. I. Oakley pitched 4 2/3 innings and allowed four runs, one earned, on a hit and six walks with two strikeouts. E. Oakley pitched one inning and allowed five runs, four earned, on a hit and four walks with three strikeouts. Laken Kortemeyer tossed 1/3 of an inning and gave up two unearned runs on a hit. Aaron Nordbye allowed two earned runs.
