Iola High’s junior varsity baseball and softball teams played at home Tuesday with different results.
The Mustang baseball team beat visiting Chanute High’s Blue Comet junior varsity 3-1 and 6-3. Iola’s junior varsity improved to 3-3.
The Fillies’ lost 28-7 in three innings and had the second game with Chanute end in an 8-8 tie. Iola’s junior varsity softball team is 0-3-1.
Aaron Barclay was the winning pitcher for the Mustangs in the first game with Chanute, holding the Comets to one run — a home run in the fifth — on two hits. He struck out eight.
Drew Faulhaber led the Iola offense with two singles. Tyler Clubine doubled. Cole Morrison and Trent Latta each singled.
Iola broke a 2-2 with a run in the third inning of the second game. The Mustangs plated three more runs in the fourth on their way to the 6-3 victory. Latta was the winning pitcher, working four innings and allowing two runs on four hits and one walk. He struck out eight. Morrison pitched one inning and gave up one run on one hit and two walks with a strikeout.
Latta and Derrick Weir each had a single and a double. Eric Heffern hit two signles. Thealvin Minor doubled. Kohl Endicott and Brock Peters had a single apiece.
The Fillies and Blue Comets had a walk-filled first game. It was 7-3 after the first inning and Chanute scored 18 runs in the second inning.
Chanute had 12 hits and took advantage of 17 walks issued by Iola and seven defensive errors.
Shelby Reno pitched for Iola. Reno hit a triple and Katie Shields doubled for Iola. Chanute pitchers issued seven walks and hit three batters.
In the second game, Iola scored six runs in the first inning and Chanute had six runs in the second frame. The Fillies added two runs in the second. The Blue Comets had single runs in the first and third innings.
Reno hit another triple for Iola. Baylea Thompson had a double and Abbey St. Clair singled.
Last Friday, the IHS junior varsity baseball team split a doubleheader last against host Burlington High’s Wildcats. There were no junior varsity softball games Friday.
Burlington used a five-run first inning to boost itself to a 6-4 win in the first game. Iola scored three runs in the fifth inning.
Weir and Beasley each had a double in the game. Latta and Clubine had a single apiece.
