BALDWIN — In the first game of a doubleheader with Baldwin here Tuesday night, Iola’s American Legion AA Indians’ losing streak grew to a bamboozling three games. They rectified that in the second game, bouncing back to register a 9-6 victory.
Iola lost two first-found games in the Chanute Fourth of July Tournament Saturday by the narrowest of margin, 6-5 to Chanute and 5-4 to Osawatomie. Baldwin scored four runs in the fifth inning in Tuesday night’s opener en route to a 6-5 win.
Iola returned to form in the nightcap. The Indians scored five runs in the first two innings and went on to win 9-6.
Results of the four games left Iola with a 21-6 record and a doubleheader tonight at Garnett, a team the Indians handled easily earlier this season.
Corey Taylor and Mason Coons split mound duty in the victory over Baldwin. Together they yielded five hits, including a pair of two-baggers, and issued seven walks. They struck out seven.
Meanwhile, Iola laced nine hits, seven singles and two doubles, about the diamond. Ethan Ericson and Austin Knoblick had the two-base hits while Coons singled twice and Devan Conner, Clint Heffern, Jerrik Sigg, Kris Collins and Jarred Latta all had one single.
The game was decided early. Iola tallied two runs in the first and added three in the second. Another three-run outburst put the game away in the sixth.
In the first game Baldwin snatched up a victory when it scored four runs in the fifth and weathered a three-run Iola rally in the seventh that featured Sigg’s booming triple.
Heffern had a double, Conner singled twice and Collins, Ericson and Knoblick each singled.
Sigg had mound duty for Iola. He limited Baldwin to four walks and four hits, including two doubles, while fanning six. Baldwin was opportunistic, though, bunching both doubles, a single and two walks in its big fifth inning.
Iola AA Indians split with Baldwin
