2A State Championship – Hawley v Collinsville

 admin  |    Jun 6th, 2024

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In the 2A state championship game, Collinsville’s battery consisted of Logan Jenkins and Peyton Davidson.  Hawley would feature Creed Ernst and Keagan Ables.  Four pitches into the game, Hawley had its first baserunner as Aiden Romo walked.  A sacrifice bunt and a single by Keagan Ables put runners on the corners.  That is all the traffic Jenkins would allow as he quickly struck out the next two batters.  In the bottom of the frame. Collinsville would scratch out a run on a delay steal and a run scored.

Jenkins had a pretty clean top of the 2^nd.  He struck out 2 and got Eli Daniel to line out.  The second batter, Drew Siller, reached on a error.  Collinsville scratched out another run in the bottom of the second after Peyton Davidson singles, advances on a hit by pitch and scores from second on a fielder’s choice.  Logan Jenkins was efficient and effective in the top of the 3^rd.  Two popouts and a groundout and he was back in the dugout.  In the bottom of the 3^rd, Collinsville took advantage of four hits and a hit by pitch to score three more.  Patterson led off with a single, followed singles by Jaxon Jenkins, Cash Morgan and Garrett Trevino.

In the top of the 4^th, after a leadoff single Hawley would get Westyn Balch to 3^rd but that is as far as he would get.  Two grounds outs and a fly out to right were recorded by Jenkins. Creed Earnst was on the mound for Hawley in the bottom of the fourth. Other than a hit by pitch of Logan Jenkins, Earnst was clean.  Three ground balls for three outs.  Jenkins continued to be efficient in the top of the 5^th.  Three ground balls for three outs.  In the bottom of the 5^th, Morgan double and Newman singled to start the inning.  Ernst struck out Trevino.  Morgan scored on a ground out to third for out number two.  Gavin Olney came in to pitch for Hawley and struck out the only batter faced.

Hawley got two hits in the top of the 6^th but couldn’t get anyone past 2^nd.  Collinsville quickly loaded the bases with no outs.  They would score three runs but couldn’t push the 10^th one across.  The game would go to the full 7 innings.  Jenkins put the Bearcats down in order to seal the victory.

WP – Jenkins
LP –  Ernst

 

Player of the Game:  Cash Morgan

Score by Innings	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	R	H	E
Hawley	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	2
Collinsville	1	1	3	0	1	3	X	9	10	1