Baugh Gets Two Hits, Drives In Run, Gets Save On Mound, Tigers Turn Back Francis Howell 6-4  

EDWARDSVILLE - It was a very good day for Edwardsville pitcher/infielder Hunter Baugh, as he delivered two hits and an RBI, then pitched the final 2.1 innings, striking out three, to save the game for starter Tony Eberlin as Edwardsville defeated Francis Howell of Weldon Spring, Mo., in St. Charles County 6-4 in a baseball game played Friday afternoon at Tom Pile Field.

The Tigers have won two of their last three games and are now 3-3 in a still-young season, and did so against the Vikings, considered one of the best teams in the area and the Midwest.

Francis Howell got off to a great start when their first two batters, A.J. Jones and Jack Bogard, reached on errors, with Jones scoring on the second error to give the Vikings a 1-0 lead. Two outs later, Bogard scored on an RBI single by Shake Speckert to make the score 2-0.

Edwardsville took the lead in the home half of the first, starting with walks to Ty Hunt and Baugh, Jack Kirgan getting a base hit on a sacrifice bunt attempt. Tyson Wampler lifted a sacrifice fly to right, scoring Hunt and advancing Baugh to third, then Kirgan stole second, and when the ball went into center field on the throw, Baugh ran home to tie the game 2-2. After a strikeout, Nathan Bukovac singled home Kirgan to give the Tigers a 3-2 lead.

In the second, with one out, Zane Maxwell drew a walk, went to third on a scratch single by Hunt, and scored on Baugh's double down the right field line to increase the lead to 4-2. In the bottom of the fourth, with one out, Maxwell walked, stole second, went to third on a wild pitch, and scored when Hunt reached on a dropped third strike by the catcher, ruled a wild pitch, giving Edwardsville a 5-2 lead.

In the top of the fifth, the Vikings cut the lead to 5-3 on a two-out double by Chase Rogers and an RBI single by Jones. Edwardsville got the run back in the home half, as Nick Chiarodo led off with a base hit, stole second, and after a strikeout, scored on Andrew McCutchen's RBI single to right to give the Tigers a 6-3 lead. It wasn't quite over yet, and in the top of the sixth, with two out, Speckert singled, stole second, and scored on a single to right by Colin Campbell to cut the lead to 6-4.

After the first inning jitters, Eberlin settled in and pitched very well, retiring 12 straight until running into trouble in the fifth, when Baugh came in and did a very good job of putting out the fire, setting the side down in order in the seventh to preserve the win for Edwardsville 6-4.

Baugh led the way for the Tigers with two hits and an RBI, while Hunt had a hit and an RBI, Kirgan, Chiarodo, Bukovac, and McCutchen all had hits, and Wampler delivered an RBI. Eberlin went 4.2 innings for the win, allowing three runs, one earned, on three hits, walking none and striking out three, while Baugh went the final 2.1 innings, giving up an earned run on two hits, also fanning three.

The Vikings are now 4-2, while the Tigers go to 3-3, and continue their home stand on Monday against Springfield Sacred Heart-Griffin Catholic, concluding the home stand Wednesday against Mascoutah, both games starting at 4:30 p.m., then playing in a cluster at Jackson, Mo., meeting the Eureka, Mo., Vipers at 10 a.m., then going up against the Indians at 12 noon.

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