Baseball: Manning, Hampshire blank Woodstock
Jacob Manning threw a 4-hitter with 8 strikeouts and 1 walk Monday to lead the Hampshire baseball team to a 2-0 win over Woodstock in a Fox Valley Conference Fox Division game.
Manning also had 2 doubles for the Whip-Purs (10-10, 4-6) while Carter Lawler (RBI) and Matthew Wians added doubles. Kyle Homa also had an RBI for Hampshire.
Jacobs-CL South suspended: This was one day Mother Nature was victorious.
With host Crystal Lake South leading Jacobs 6-4 after 3½ innings, the Fox Valley Conference game was postponed because of heavy rains and lightning Monday afternoon.
No reschedule date was announced.
In the shortened game, both teams excelled offensively.
Nebraska-bound junior Mike Addante led off the game with a single and later scored on an RBI single by Cameron Wilson to give the visitors a 1-0 lead.
Benefiting from 3 walks, the Gators plated 5 runs in the bottom of the first. The key hits were a 2-RBI single from Nick Wolski and run-scoring singles by Mike Humphrey and Kory Olsen.
Jacobs climbed to within a run of the Gators at 5-4 with 3 in the third courtesy of RBI singles by Wilson and Adam Kale along with an RBI groundout from Tim Randl.
Cam Geisser hammered a long solo homer to lead off the bottom of the inning for South to produce the last run of the game.
The Gators, who were aided by 5 walks and 2 errors, managed 4 hits in 3 at-bats.
Jacobs, which stranded 8 runners, collected 10 hits. Wilson paced the offensive attack for the Eagles with a 3-for-3 effort and 2 RBI while Stevie Krueger and Nate Meland tallied 2 hits each.
- Dave Hess
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