Silver Creek Tournament

Silver Creek held their annual tournament featuring eight teams from across the state: Silver Creek, Charlestown, Brebeuf, Rockville, Guerin Catholic, Crawfordsville, DeKalb, and Norwell. Here is some wrap ups from the games PBR covered.

Charlestown 5 Guerin Catholic 4

The opening game of the tournament saw two quality senior arms face off, Adam Neidlinger (EKU Commit) for Guerin Catholic and Tregg Scherer for Charlestown. Neidlinger threw four innings sitting 82-85 in the first two innings, topping out at 87. He allowed just one hit in his four innings, striking out seven, and walking five. Scherer sat consistently 83-86 topping out at 88 in the first inning. He would finish the day with a no decision after leaving in the fifth. In his 4.2 innings he finished with nine strikeouts, two hits, and five walks.

Charlestown got on the board first putting up two runs in the second inning after back to back errors. They would add another run in each of the next two innings. Guerin Catholic was kept quiet until the fifth inning. The first two batters walked and would both come around to score on wild pitches. Neidlinger singled to drive in another run to cut the deficit to 4-3.

In the seventh with two outs and a runner on second Guerin had a hard ball hit to the shortstop that got through allowing Luke Hammons to score from second to tie the game. Charlestown would answer in the bottom of the frame. After a close play at first that would have sent the game into extra innings Charlestown’s Taylor Pfehl came up with first and third with two outs. Pfehl hit a line drive single to bring in the winning run.

Norwell 14 Crawfordsville 8

Norwell’s offense had two big innings to lift them to victory, putting up five in the second and eight in the fifth. In the second Jonah Patten got the offense going with a leadoff homerun. Drew Higgens doubled off the wall after that and Austin Dantzer and Beau Dafforn both drove in runs. In the fifth, Crawfordsville looked ready to make a comeback after cutting the lead to 6-4, but Norwell had three players hit homeruns in the inning. Dafforn started it off with a two run shot to left field. After Kyler Mills perfectly excuted a squeeze bunt to plate a run, Patten would hit his second homerun of the day, this time a three run shot. Higgens who just missed hitting a homerun in the second this time followed Patten’s homerun with one of his own.

After Norwell’s big inning, Crawfordsville would respond with four runs of their own in the bottom of the fifth. Jordan Jackson and Chris Minks would both single in runs to cut the lead to 14-8 after five. That would be as close as Crawfordsville could get because lightning delayed the game and ultimately made the five inning contest a complete game.

Patten got the win on the mound for sitting 85-87 and showing a good breaking ball. Dantzer finished the game 4-4 with three RBI. Joel Hobson finished the game 1-1 with three runs scored for Crawfordsville.

Brebeuf 7 Rockville 1

It took a few innings for Brebeuf’s offense to get going, but in the fourth they started to get things rolling. Nick Meyers opened up the fourth with a double into the gap, Connor Hale followed him up with a RBI single to break up a 0-0 tie. Hunter Hale came through with a two out RBI double that scored his older brother from first base. Rockville would cut the lead in half with a bases loaded HBP that plated a run. In the fifth Joey Perkins hit a two out solo homerun, followed by an error and a Connor Hale RBI double to put Brebeuf up 4-1.

Brebuef added three more in the top of the seventh. After a leadoff walk to Perkins Chase Shaw stepped up and belted a two run homerun. Brebeuf would add another run on a bases loaded walk to Mike Perry giving them a 7-1 advantage.

Brebeuf got solid pitching performances for Spencer Martin and Jacob Wischmeyer. Martin went four innings to pick up the win. In his four innings he only allowed four hits and struck out five. Wischmeyer came in for the final three frames giving up just one hit.