COLONY — Crest High’s baseball team rebounded nicely from its first loss of the season Thursday.
The Lancers followed Trevor Church’s dominant pitching performance in a 10-0 win over visiting Humboldt in the opener. The Lancers then took advantage of some Cub miscues in the second, scoring eight unearned runs in a 13-3 victory.
“I was pleased to see the kids hit the ball, run the bases,” Crest head coach Roland Weir said. “It was good to see the boys play again.”
“We weren’t too down” after a loss last week to Jayhawk-Linn,” Weir continued, “because we didn’t beat ourselves. We hit the ball hard, it was just right at them. That’s the way it goes sometimes.”
Humboldt’s troubles in the field — the Cubs committed five errors in the first game and eight in the second — put the Cubs in a hole too deep to escape, head coach Mike Miller said.
“We didn’t do ourselves any favors,” he said. “There were a couple of times we loaded the bases, but we couldn’t find the hits we needed.”
Church allowed three hits and struck out 11 in his six-inning shutout.
Crest scored two in the second and took control with a five-run third.
Holden Barker had Crest’s big hit, a solo home run, while Tyson Hermreck singled twice. Church, Kobey Miller, Stetson Setter and Avery Blaufuss all had singles.
Gavin Page started for the Cubs and gave up five hits with three strikeouts. Sam Hull came on in relief and gave up two hits with a strikeout.
Hull had two of Humboldt’s three hits; Page had the other.
THINGS got a bit sloppy in the finale as the teams combined to commit 17 errors, including their pitchers giving up 12 walks.
Crest took the early 4-0 lead. Humboldt closed the gap with two in the top of the third, but the Lancers responded with a run in the third, two in the fourth and three each in the fifth and sixth.
Stetson Setter earned the win, allowing just one hit with nine strikeouts over six innings, but with six walks. Trey Sommer started for Humboldt. He pitched into the fourth inning, allowing four hits with five strikeouts. Evan Lucke came on in relief, giving up four hits.
Setter aided his own cause at the plate, smacking three doubles and a single, with three RBIs. Stratton McGhee singled twice, while Barker and Miller had doubles.
Trenton Heisler had Humboldt’s hit, a single.
