The Brookings baseball team split a doubleheader with Sioux Falls Jefferson at Bob Shelden Field on Tuesday night.
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BROOKINGS — The Brookings baseball team split a doubleheader with Sioux Falls Jefferson at Bob Shelden Field on Tuesday night.
The Bobcats lost game one 12-4, but bounced back with a 4-0 win in game two.
Brookings is now 10-14 on the season and hosts a doubleheader against Watertown tonight at 5 p.m.
The Cavs scored 10 unanswered runs after falling behind 4-2 in the first three innings.
SFJ led 1-0 after the first inning. The Cavaliers led off the game with a double and then followed with an RBI single.
The Bobcats would then take the lead in the bottom of the second. Tane Friedrich led off the inning with a double. He came home on a passed ball with two outs and then Cooper Schneider hit a double of his own. Tre Chrstopherson hit Schneider home with a single and it was 2-1 Brookings heading into the third.
The Cavs tied the game with a sacrifice fly in the top of the third but Brookings regained the lead in the bottom of the inning. Winston Plummer and Jay Harris hit back-to-back one-out singles. Plummer came home on a Friedrich single and then Harris made his way across the plate on a single from Jude Meendering to make it 4-2 through three innings.
SFJ cut the lead in half on a wild pitch in the top of the fourth. The Cavs then took the lead in the top of the fifth. They tied the game with an RBI single and then two runs on two different errors made it 6-4 heading into the sixth.
The Cavs put the game out of reach in the sixth with five runs. They scored two on a triple and made it 9-4 with an RBI single. A two-run double then pushed the lead to 11-4 and a run on a ground out made it 12-4.
Brookings had one base runner in the final two innings and took the loss.
The Bobcats had nine hits. Friedrich and Christopherson were each 2-for-3 with an RBI. Meendering was 1-for-3 with an RBI. Schneider was 1-for-1 and Harris was 1-for-3. Plummer and Bauer were each 1-for-4.
Kysin Reuer got the start for Brookings and pitched four and a third innings. He gave up six runs, three earned, on six hits with no strikeouts and three walks. Schneider pitched two thirds of an inning and gave up six earned runs on four hits with two walks and no strikeouts. Ryan Lockrem pitched the final two innings and gave up no runs and one hit.
Noah Lease pitched a complete-game shutout to give the Bobcats the win in game two. He gave up just two hits and had four strikeouts and no walks.
Neither team scored the first three innings and the Bobcats broke the tie in the bottom of the fourth. Schneider and Tyson Antonen led off the inning with back-to-back singles. Schneider then scored when Plummer grounded into a double play and the Bobcats led 1-0 through four innings.
Brookings then added three insurance runs in the bottom of the sixth. Meendering led off the inning with a single and Christopherson followed with a walk. Then Schneider hit a single to load the bases up. Meendering scored on a passed ball and then Schneider and Christopherson came home on an error to make it 4-0.
The Cavs had a one-out single in the seventh but then Lease forced a double play to end the game.
Brookings had seven hits. Meendering was 2-for-2 and Schneider was 2-for-3. Christopherson was 1-for-2 and Harris was 1-for-3. Plummer had two RBIs without a hit.
