The Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn baseball team traveled to Cherokee on June 1 for a game with the Braves. Cherokee sent the Hawks home early, winning the game 15-0 with four runs in the bottom of the fourth inning. For the first three innings the Braves kept upping the ante on the scoreboard with one run in the first, two in the second and eight in the third.
Noah Rapp limited HMS to a pair of hits: singles by Jack Mastbergen and Ricky Smith. With the loss the Hawks fell to 1-7 on the season.
Cherokee had only four hits of their own but HMS put nine Braves on base by way of walks. There were also three hit batters and two Hawk errors.
Grant Kunzman was the starting pitcher for the Hawks. He went two plus innings, yielding seven runs on three hits, five walks and one hit batter. Three of the runs were earned. Two relievers threw for the Hawks. Mykle Meyers went 1-1/3 innings, allowing four runs (two earned) on one hit with two strikeouts and one hit batter. Hunter Daggett pitched 1/3 of an inning which included three runs (none earned), four walks and a hit batter.
The stats on Bound showed 15 runs scored by Cherokee and only 14 runs allowed by HMS pitching.
HMS 0 0 0 0 – 0
Cherokee 1 2 8 4 – 15