The Dike-New Hartford summer sports teams will host AGWSR in NICL crossover games Tuesday.
The Wolverines are coming off four wins against Columbus Catholic at home Monday. The baseball team won 7-3 and 11-1 in five innings. The softball team won 9-1 in five innings and 15-7 in five innings.
DNH trailed 3-0 after the first inning of the first baseball game, but scored twice in the third. Down by one, the Wolverines opened the game up with five runs in the fifth inning to pull away. Lewis Textor, Colin Meester, Channing Cutsforth and Cooper Steffen each had two hits. Carson Costello pitched the complete game with 12 strikeouts and one walk.
In the second game, the Wolverines had a much easier time, scoring three in the first, four in the third and four in the fifth for the walk-off win via the run margin rule. Conner Dancer led offensively with three hits and two RBIs. Gavin Gerbracht pitched four innings with seven strikeouts and four walks.
AGWSR will go for their first win over Dike-New Hartford in the Bound era, and will look to gain quality at-bats and innings in the final days of the regular season. In their last outing, they fell 10-1 and 11-3 to East Marshall in a doubleheader Monday. Head Coach Justin Kerns on the growth opportunities through a grueling schedule.
“Like we always say, we play with all 2A teams except for Gladbrook-Reinbeck in our conference, and we’ve proven that we can play with anyone,” Kerns says. “We’ve played with Grundy Center. We’ve played with Denver. We played with AP. We’ve been right there with South Hardin. Just have to do it consistently on a day-to-day basis. And if we can do that, it’ll give them some confidence and show them that we are a good baseball team. We keep telling them, us coaches, you’re a good baseball team, you’re good baseball players. They’re young guys and sometimes they focus on the results, and the results lately haven’t been great. We’re right there, and we’ll just keep working until the end of season, until that last out is logged in the books, and we’ll just keep pushing.”
The Wolverine softball team used a five-run first inning in Game 1 to create separation and pull away. In Game 2, they scored in all five innings, including seven in the second.
Each game will start at 7:00 p.m.
