COLONY — Forgive Jayhawk-Linn High’s baseball players if they were seeing double by the time they went home Thursday.
In both games of their doubleheader against host Crest High, the Lancers started out strong before erupting in the third innings of both games.
Even the final scores, 16-1 and 16-1 were identical as the Lancers extended their winning streak to eight games.
Things didn’t start out according to plan. An error, single and walk led to an RBI grounder, giving Jayhawk-Linn an early 1-0 lead of the opener.
It didn’t last.
Crest evened the score, courtesy of a Jayhawk error, a pair of passed balls and a sacrifice fly from Rogan Weir in the bottom of the first.
A single and two walks loaded the bases in the second, for Brayden Goodell to hit a sacrifice fly and give Crest the lead for good. Henry White doubled in a run before another Jayhawk error allowed two more Lancers to score.
Crest hit high gear in the third. Ryan Golden opened things with a double. Kade Nilges drove him home with a single. Jensen Barker followed with an RBI single before he came round to score on an error. Drake Weir kept the pressure going by driving in a run with a hit-by-pitch with the bases loaded. Rogan Weir’s hit delivered two more runs, Logan Kistner had an RBI hit-by-pitch and Nilges singled for two more runs. By the time the dust settled, the Lancers held a 14-1 lead.
Rogan Weir added another RBI with a bases-loaded walk, and Golden’s grounder was misplayed for an error, ending the game with the 16th run, courtesy of the 15-run mercy rule.
Kistner struck out six over four innings of work, allowing three hits and zero earned runs.
White had a single and double to pace the offense. Rogan Weir and Niles both singled twice. Golden had a double; Kistner and Barker had singles.
THE WEIR brothers got things started on the right foot in the nightcap.
Drake Weir singled, stole second and advanced to third on a passed ball, scoring on Rogan Weir’s RBI single. He came in to score on Nilges’s bases-loaded walk. Barker was hit by a pitch to make it 3-0, and the fourth run came in on a passed ball.
Rogan Weir singled and came around to score on a passed ball.
The drumbeat continued in innings two, and especially three.
