In the featured game of the day, No. 19 Lee’s Summit West came away with a 4-3 win over Park Hill, in a battle between No. 9 Class of 2013 player LHP Dalton Moats and No. 1 Class of 2014 player RHP Alex Lange. Both pitchers kept their teams in the game, Moats leaving with a no-decision and Lange picking up the win in relief; but it was a walk off three run home run in the bottom of the eighth inning off the bat of No. 3 ranked Class of 2014 player Monte Harrison that was the difference. 

Moats went seven innings for Park Hill allowing four hits and striking out five batters. Lee’s Summit West’s Lange struck out six batters in five innings of relief work, scattering four hits. 

In other action around the state:
No. 5 Westminster 8 Parkway South 5
After taking an early 2-0 lead, Westminster came back to knock off Parkway South 8 to 5. Caleb Hicks drove in two runs and scored two, while Byrce Bell went 3-for-4 with an RBI to lead Westminster. 

Westminster wasted no time scoring, taking an early 3-0 lead in the top of the first. After a one out single by Bryce Bell and a double by Shane Benes, Caleb Hicks drove home both base runners with a two RBI single. Hicks advanced to second on the throw and came around to score when the next batter, Brett Bond singled up the middle. 

Parkway South responded by scoring two runs in the bottom of the first and two more in the bottom of the second. James Cumming’s reached first on a catcher’s interference call and was driven in on Parker Betterdorf’s RBI single up the middle. Two batters later, Bettendorf crossed the plate on a wild pitch. 

Cummings and Bettendorf scored both runs in the bottom of the second inning as well, coming around to score on consecutive singles by James Calloway and Brad Nelson.  

Westminster tied the game at 4-4 in the fourth inning on an RBI single by Bryce Bell and re-took the lead in the fifth. Caleb Hicks started off the inning getting hit by a pitch and advanced to second on a Brett Bond single. A walk to Jordan Smith loaded the bases, followed by a bases loaded walk to Collin Einerston, allowing Hicks to score. Andrew Colgrave’s fielder’s choice ground out drove in Bond and Smith to score on an error on the play, putting Westminster up 7-4. 

Westminster added an insurance run in the 7^th to put away Parkway South for good.

No. 7 Notre Dame 3 Cape Central 2 (10 innings)
No. 7 Notre Dame 6 Cape Central 2
Notre Dame swept a double header against in-town rival Cape Central. In the first game, Matt Westrich has two hits, including a walk off RBI single in the bottom of the eighth inning to secure the win in 10 innings for Notre Dame. 

In the second game, Graham Roupp threw five innings of no-hit ball, striking out three to pick up the win. Justin Landewee scored two runs, while Justin Haggerty, Chase Simmons, Matt Westrich, Stephen Brennan, and Hunter Eftink each picked up an RBI. 

No. 10 Ladue 10 Whitfield 0 

No. 11 Blue Springs South 1 Lee’s Summit 0 (9 innings)
Reece Eddins scored on an error after an errant throw by the Lee’s Summit shortstop in the bottom of the ninth inning. Starter Chase Egelston and reliever Connor Davis, in his first varsity action, combined for three hits with Davis picking up the win in relief. 

No. 13 Santa Fe 3 Marshall 5
Class One Santa Fe held their own again the bigger Class Four Marshall, ultimately falling 5 to 3. Darion Lawrence went 1-for-3 with two RBIs for Marshall and Trent Tolivar threw five and two thirds innings to pick up the win. 

No. 17 Holden 7 Higginsville 1
Matt Borgen went the distance on the mound, allowing four hits and striking out nine. Borgen also helped himself at the plate with two hits and two RBIs. Nick Martin, Justin Jaeger also had 2 hits for the Eagles, and Jordan Sullins had a two RBI triple.

No. 18 Pacific 23 Owensville 3
Jake Null, Hank Vandaveer, James Howie, Allen Fitzgerald, and Tyler Straatman combined to go 11-for-17 at the plate and drive in 16 runs in Pacific’s route of Owensville. Null led the way with five RBIs. 

No. 25 Poplar Bluff  9 Malden 7

 

In other action around the state:
Logan-Rogersville 14 Aurora 1
Justin King and Tad Mitchell each drove in a run in the first inning, and Connor Pomering’s two RBI double in the second set the tone for Logan-Rogersville’s easy win over Aurora. Mitchell also picked up the win on the mound, scattering four hits over four innings of work and striking out four batters. 

Cabool 3 Willow Springs 0
Drew Pearson’s two run home run was the difference maker in this game. Markus Rader threw a complete game shut out, allowing five hits and striking out six. 

Kennett 6 Portageville 1
Collin Smith went six strong innings of two hit ball, allowing only one earned run. Akeem Nelson, Bud Hillburn, Kevonte Mitchell, and Declan Wallace each contributed with an RBI.

Blue Springs 14                               Lee’s Summit North 1
Nick Dorman led the Blue Springs offense, going 2-for-3 with three RBIs, while David Stober picked up the win on the mound going five innings and scattering four hits and striking out three, Stober helped himself at the plate going 1-for-1 with two RBIs. 

DeSmet 10 Webster Groves 7
Nevada 8 Webb City 1
Grandview 8 Chrisman 1
Benton 11 Basehor-Linwood (KS) 1
Eldon 9 Linn 8
Hartville 11 Conway 0