HUMBOLDT — Humboldt High’s pitching remains dialed in.
The Cubs swept Erie, 13-1 and 3-2, on Thursday, allowing just one hit over the two games.
Sam Hull and Cole Mathes pitched a combined no-hitter over five innings in the opener.
Hull pitched the first 4.2 innings, striking out nine without allowing a hit. Mathes then struck out the only batter he faced.
Erie’s only run in the first game came on a wild pitch in the top of the first.
It didn’t take long for Humboldt to respond.
Logan Page drove in two runs with a single as the first five Cub batters reached base. Mason Sterling then scored on a passed ball for a 3-1 lead.
Two walks and an error opened Humboldt’s second time at bat, paving the way for Page’s two-run single. Sterling doubled him home and the Cubs were on top, 6-1.
Hull singled and scored on Colden Cook’s triple, Sterling drove Cook home with an RBI grounder, and Humboldt’s lead was 8-1.
The game ended in the fifth. Blake Ellis had an RBI single before the final three runs came across on an Erie fielding error.
Sterling paced the offense with a single and double. Cook had a triple and Isbell a double. Ellis and Hull each singled twice.
HUMBOLDT’S offense did just enough to stay in front in Game 2.
Ellis led off the first with a double and scored on Cook’s grounder to short.
He then tripled with two outs in the second and scored on a passed ball, pushing Humboldt on top, 3-0.
But the Cubs saw an inning-ending double play squash a chance to score in the third, could not score after getting two singles and a walk in the fifth, and stranded two more runners in the sixth.
