Martin - 9  vs  Arlington - 7

Game Summary
What a game!!  The freshmen teams from Martin and Arlington had to play an eighth inning to determine who was going to win their second district match up and the Warriors came out on top once again.  Tanner Hapeman led off the first with a single to left center followed by walks by Travis Breslin, Jay Hiller and Kyle Blackwell.  Blackwell’s walk gave him the first RBI scoring Hapeman and Hunter Reinhardt racked up the second RBI when he hit a shot over the short stops head into shallow left field sending Breslin home.  During the bottom of the first Dylan Rucker made the first two batters hit right back to him and he threw them out easily at first base to Stewart Person.  The third batter walked and the fourth batter hit a shot to Reinhardt in right field.  The runner that started on first tried to make it to third but Reinhardt had other plans.  He threw from right field all the way to third and Breslin put the tag down on the runner.  Definitely an ESPN moment.  The second inning saw three strike outs for the Warriors.  Once again in the bottom of the inning Rucker had the first two batters hit right back to him and he once again completed the plays to first base.  The next two batters hit singles and scored one run for the Colts.  Rucker was able to get out of the inning and strand a runner with a strike out.  With one out in the third Breslin walked followed by Jay Hiller hitting a shot to the third baseman who was not able to get the ball to the first basemen without pulling him off the bag.  With two outs, Reinhardt hit a ball to centerfield that was dropped giving Reinhardt 2 RBIs.  Rucker retired the side in order making the score 4 – 1 after three.  Despite Chase Jensen hitting a single and Eric Jeske drawing a walk the Warriors were not able to add to their lead in the fourth, but the Warriors held the Colts scoreless that inning as well with two Ks and a pop up to short stop, Blackwell.  In the fifth Daniel Garcia reached on an error, Breslin hit a single up the middle and both scored on Rucker’s double to left center.  Jensen hit another single but was once again stranded.  The first batter for the Colts got on due to a Warrior error followed by a home run scoring two.  They were able to get two more runners on with walks, but the defense came through and kept the Warriors up with a score of 7 – 3.  During the sixth inning the Warriors were unable to score and left Garcia, who had reached with a walk, and Breslin, who had his second single, stranded.  The Colts were once more able to score 2 runs in the sixth and had the bases loaded with no outs when the batter hit to Breslin at third, who immediately gunned it into Garcia at the plate to get the force and lead runner.  The next batter missed the ball on a classic squeeze play and Garcia got the runner coming home with ease.  Two batters later Person, who had come in as relief, got the third out with a strike out.  7 – 5 Warriors after six innings.  The Warriors once again went down in order in the seventh inning and the Colts again scored two to tie the game at 7 all at the end of 7.  The Colts thought that the momentum had swung their way and their cheer before the inning was “BEAT MARTIN”.  Well the Warriors weren’t going to lie down without a fight.  Jeske started it out with a single down the gut followed by a double by Hapeman which scored Jeske.  Hapeman stole home on a wild pitch a few batters later to make it 9 – 7 Warriors going into the bottom of the eighth.  The first Colt batter flew out to Jeske in left field, second batter flew out to Hapeman in center and after two harmless singles the fifth batter flew out to Reinhardt in right once again making the Warriors victorious over the Colts.  Rucker got the win and Person the save.     
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