Serving O'Brien & Clay Counties
Serving O'Brien & Clay Counties
Baseball team tops South O'Brien for first WEC win
Jonathan Ortiz attempts to tag out a Gehlen Catholic runner at home. The runner was ruled safe on the play.
Hartley-Melvin-Sanborn's baseball team entered the Memorial Day weekend having lost back-to-back games, but the post-holiday schedule began with a convincing 11-4 win over South O'Brien at Paullina.
The Hawks set the tone with two runs in the first inning. They added four in the second on a two-run single by Jacob Cates and RBI singles by Keith DeBoer and Keaton Graves.
"I was really happy with how we bounced back from a rough end to the week before," Hawk coach Jeremy Gloden said. "We took advantage of some walks and errors. That allowed us to run the bases and put extra pressure on their def...
