TERRE HAUTE —
If anyone was worried Wayne Newton Post 346 wouldn’t be ready to play after a loooooong, hot, exhausting weekend of baseball games in Paducah, Ky., they needn’t have worried.
Post 346 combined a stelllar pitching performance from Kodie Girton and timely hitting from the middle of their batting order to easily dispatch Mattoon Post 346 6-1 in the first game of an American Legional baseball doubleheader at Jennings Field on Tuesday.
The nightcap finished too late for this edition of the Tribune-Star, but a recap can be found at www.tribstar.com.
Girton tossed a complete-game one-hitter, fanning 11 batters for his part in the victory. Post 346 plated four runs in the third, two more in the fifth, where it generated seven of its eight hits — four of those hits going for extra bases.
“Thought the kids played well, thought Kodie [Girton] pitched a nice game,” Post 346 manager John Hayes stated between games. When informed Girton had 11 strikeouts, Hayes repled, “A pretty good day’s work.”
It was a scoreless pitching duel between Girton and Post 88’s hurler Ian Snowden, until the bottom of the third inning.
Connor Pierce led off the Post 346 third with a single and was at third base with two outs. Tony Rosselli drove in Pierce with a double that one-hopped the left field fence for the first run of the game.
Colton Rupska walked, then Preston Tofaute plated both runners with a two-run double into the leftfield corner for a 3-0 lead. Zach Milam completed the scoring with a RBI-single to go up 4-0.
Girton did walk six batters, where three of them and an error enabled Post 88 to plate their only run, an unearned tally in the fourth inning.
In the Post 88 fourth, Ryan Sparks reached on a fielding error with one out, then Girton walked the next two batters to load the bases. Girton fanned Mitch Godden, then had an 0-2 count on Chris Havlik, but Havlik coaxed a walk to get them within 4-1.
In the Post 346 fifth, Pete Lannoo led off with a single, then scored on a second two-bagger by Rosselli. Rupska followed with a bloop double, just inside the chalkline in short left field, scoring Lannoo. Milam’s RBI-ground out eventually drove in Rosselli to account for its 6-1 lead.
Girton allowed just the one hit, a single by Mattoon’s Dalton McFarland to lead off the second inning. Except for the fourth inning, Girton allowed only a single baserunner in the first, second, sixth and seventh innings. Only one of those runners moved into scoring position, that occurring in the seventh.
Rosselli was 2 for 2 with his pair of doubles, a walk, and an RBI to lead Post 346’s offense. Milam was 2 for 3 with two RBIs, while Tofaute had his double and a pair of RBI’s.
Post 346 (20-6 after the first game) were fresh off playing four straight days, Thursday through Sunday, in earning a runner-up finish in the tournament at Paducah, Ky.
“I know [the players] are tired, because I’m tired,” Hayes laughed. “One of them said, ‘Coach, do we always play a doubleheader [the second day after a tournament]?’ I said, ‘well not normally, but [Mattoon] likes to play doubleheaders. We’ll give them a doubleheader’. Plus it gives us some games.”
• Post 346 wins nightcap -- At Jennings Field, Wayne Newton Post 346 scored a pair of runs in the first and second innings, then rode the strong pitching of three different hurlers to defeat Mattoon Post 88 5-1 in the second game to complete a sweep of their American Legional baseball doubleheader late Tuesday night.
Tony Rosselli was 3 for 4 in the nightcap, with a triple and two RBI to pace Post 346 -- going 5 for 6 in the doubleheader with a two doubles, a triple and three RBI. Cody Thornton and Zach Milam were both 2 for 4 with doubles in the second game. Sam Wolf, Pete Lannoo and Daniel Marlow combined on the mound to toss a seven-hitter.
In the Post 346 first, Milam singled, then Dalton Sexton and Rosselli followed with RBI-triples for a 2-0 lead. In the Post 346 second, Thornton and Milam hit back-to-back doubles, Rosselli adding a RBI-single for a 4-0 lead.
Rosselli added an insurance tally in the fourth inning with a single, stolen base, moving to third on a flyout, scoring on a wild pitch.
W.Newton 6, Mattoon 1
Game 1
Mattoon ab r h bi W.Newton ab r h bi
Voltenburg lf 3 0 0 0 Thornton cf 3 0 0 0
Whitworth cf 4 0 0 0 Lannoo 1b 3 1 1 0
Snowden p 3 0 0 0 Olds ph-1b 1 0 0 0
Webb p 0 0 0 0 Rosselli rf 2 2 2 1
Sparks 2b 3 1 0 0 Rupska dh 2 1 1 1
McFarland ss 2 0 1 0 Tofaute c 2 1 1 2
Reel 1b 0 0 0 0 Milam 3b 3 0 2 2
Godden 3b 3 0 0 0 Marlow 2b 3 0 0 0
Havlik c 1 0 0 1 Decker ss 3 0 0 0
Roling rf 3 0 0 0 Pierce lf 3 1 1 0
Totals 22 1 1 1 Totals 25 6 8 6
Mattoon 000 100 0 — 1
Wayne Newton 004 020 x — 6
E — Marlow, Girton. LOB — Mattoon 7, Wayne Newton 5. 2B — Rosselli 2, Rupska, Tofaute. SH — Reel, Thornton. SB — Havlik.
IP H R ER BB SO
Mattoon
Snowden (L) 5 7 6 6 2 5
Webb 1 0 0 0 0 0
Wayne Newton
Girton (W) 7 1 1 0 6 11
WP — Snowden. HBP — by Snowden (Tofaute).
T — 1:37.
Next — Wayne Newton Post 346 (20-6 prior to Tuesday’s second game of the doubleheader) begins play in a four-day tournament at Moline, Ill. beginning on Thursday.
Second game
Mattoon Post 88 000 001 0 – 1-7-0
W.Newton Post 346 220 100 x – 5-11-0
Diepholz (L) and Veith; Wolf (W), Lannoo (5), Marlow (7) and Tofaute, Sexton (1).
Highlights -- For Post 346, Rosselli was 3 for 4 with a triple and 2 RBI; Thornton and Milam were both 2 for 4 with doubles; Sexton had a triple and RBI.
Next -- Wayne Newton Post 346 (21-6) will play in the Moline, Ill. Tournament beginning on Thursday.
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Tribune-Star/Jim Avelis Just enough: Post 346 batter Preston Tofaute watches the ball head to the outfield. He drove in a run with the hit.
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Tribune-Star/Jim Avelis On target: Post 346 pitcher Cody Girton delivers to a Mattoon batter in their American Legion game Tuesday evening. Girton struck out 11 batters, allowing only one unearned run.
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Tribune-Star/Jim Avelis RBI: Tony Rosselli watches his ball land fair, driving in a run for Post 346.
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