TERRE HAUTE —
The numbers were concentrated among a small number of players Thursday afternoon, but they were big numbers nonetheless as Wayne Newton Post 346 opened its own Terre Haute Invitational for American Legion baseball with a 13-3 win over Lafayette Post 11.
Just five Post 346 hitters had hits, but Scott West and Dalton Sexton had four each. Just five players from the home team crossed the plate, but Sexton and Kodie Girton scored four times each and Pete Lannoo three times. Just three players drove in runs, but West had six RBIs. And Damon Olds struck out 12 in the six-inning game that got the host team off on the right foot.
An artistic masterpiece? Hardly. Each team made three errors, and Lafayette pitchers dug their own graves with nine walks in the first four innings.
“But it was a win,” Post 346 manager John Hayes summarized, and what he hoped was another step forward for the newest edition of his traditionally strong team. “We’re still learning each other,” he continued, “and [the players] are still learning us [coaches].”
Post 346 took the lead to stay in the bottom of the first inning without hitting the ball hard. Girton drew a leadoff walk, stole second, went to third on a ground out and scored when Cody Thornton’s grounder was booted. Thornton then stole second himself, scoring from there on a bloop single by Tony Rosselli.
The bottom of the Terre Haute batting order was hard to retire all game, starting with the bottom of the second inning when Lannoo led off with a walk and Sexton singled. Girton moved the runners up with a sacrifice, and West lofted a deep fly to left field that started an unfavorable pattern from the visitors’ perspective. The outfielder turned the wrong way twice and was still staggering when the ball fell a few yards away from him, bouncing over the fence for a two-run ground-rule double.
Lafayette cut the four-run deficit in half and threatened to make a game of it as Olds had his only shaky inning in the top of the third. Evan Tislow singled, stole second and scored on two wild pitches, and a second run scored on two walks, a hit batsman and a run-scoring single by Jake Rytlewski.
With two out and none on in the bottom of the third, however, the home team rallied. Lannoo and Sexton had back-to-back singles, Girton walked, and West tortured the same outfielder, this time driving the ball over and past him to the left-center gap for a three-run double.
“He was playing up at first,” West said of the Lafayette player, who never did master the sun and high sky at Patriot Field. “Then he stayed back [which allowed several balls to fall in front of him — or be dropped — later in the game].”
Lafayette’s Lorenzo Domonden reached on an error to start the fourth inning and scored on a two-out single by Thomas Fisher. But Olds struck out two batters that inning, pitched around Tanner Hieatt’s leadoff double in the fifth, and recorded his final four outs of the game on strikes.
“Damon Olds did a nice job,” Hayes noted afterward. “He had one shaky inning, but he just needs to get more innings and more confidence.”
With one out in the bottom of the fourth, walks to Daniel Marlow and Lannoo and Sexton’s third hit started a four-run rally. One run scored on a wild pitch, another when West blooped the ball in front of his favorite outfielder, a third on Connor Pierce’s sacrifice fly and the fourth when another Thornton grounder was misplayed.
“It’s always good to get the first win [of a tournament],” West said, “get that out of the way and worry about the next team … and make sure we’re playing Sunday [in the championship game].”
In the sixth the game ended early with a two-run rally started by Sexton’s fourth hit and including a dropped fly ball, infield hits by West and Thornton, another sacrifice fly by Pierce and another missed fly ball that resulted in a fielder’s choice but allowed Girton to score for the 10-run lead.
Sexton, a college student who’s the only member of the Terre Haute team who didn’t have a school team to play for in the spring, showed he was back in a hitting groove Thursday with line shots to center, right and left before getting a fourth hit on a sun-aided blooper.
“It felt great to get out here and square up a few balls,” he said afterward. “It’s great to get out here and compete, be lucky enough to get out on the field.”
Possibly slated for a super-utility role on this summer’s team, Sexton wasn’t quite as successful defensively, chasing a few pitches to the screen when Olds was wild low. “I’ll try to help the team win and block as much as I can,” he added. “There was not much time to work out [on baseball skills] in the offseason.”
“He’ll catch some, he’ll throw some in relief … he’s anxious to play, and that’s good,” Hayes said of Sexton.
“You can’t let go of baseball, that’s for sure,” Sexton concluded.
Post 346 13, Lafayette 3
Lafayette ab r h bi Post 346 ab r h bi
Tislow cf 3 1 1 0 Girton lf 1 4 0 0
Russell rf-p 2 1 0 0 West ss 5 0 4 6
Fisher c 3 0 1 1 Pierce dh 1 0 0 2
Rudman 1b 3 0 0 0 Olds p 0 0 0 0
Hieatt p-2b 3 0 1 0 Thornton cf 4 1 1 0
Cebulla ss-rf 2 0 1 0 Rosselli rf 5 0 2 2
Rytlewski 3b 3 0 1 1 Wolf 1b 3 0 0 0
Emerson lf 3 0 0 0 Marlow 2b 3 1 0 0
Dmndn 2b-p-ss 3 1 0 0 Lannoo 3b 2 3 1 0
Sexton c 4 4 4 0
Totals 25 3 5 2 Totals 28 13 12 10
Lafayette Post 11 002 100 — 3
W.Newton Post 346 223 402 — 13
Two outs when game ended.
E — Rytlewski 2, Rosselli, Lannoo, Sexton, Emerson. LOB — Lafayette 9, WN 10. 2B — West 2, Hieatt. SB — Girton, Thornton, Tislow 2. SH — Girton. SF — Pierce 2.
IP H R ER BB SO
Lafayette Post 11
Hieatt (L) 22⁄3 7 7 5 6 1
Domonden 2⁄3 1 4 3 3 1
Russell 21⁄3 4 2 0 0 0
Wayne Newton Post 346
Olds (W, 2-1) 6 5 3 2 3 12
WP — Olds 2, Domonden. PB — Sexton. HBP — by Olds (Russell), by Olds (Cebulla). T — 2:05.
Next — Wayne Newton Post 346 (7-2) played Plymouth Post 27 in Thursday’s late game. Lafayette Post 11 (0-7) plays Evansville Pate Post 265 at 6 p.m. today.
Terre Haute Invitational
Thursday
Post 346 13, Lafayette 3
Evansville Pate 10, Bristol 3
Post 346 vs. Plymouth, (n)
Today
Bristol vs. Plymouth, 3:30 p.m.
Evansville vs. Lafayette, 6 p.m.
Bristol vs. Post 346, 8:30 p.m.
Saturday
Lafayette vs. Plymouth, 11 a.m.
Evansville vs. Plymouth, 1:30 p.m.
Bristol vs. Lafayette, 4 p.m.
Evansville vs. Post 346, 6:30 p.m.
Sunday
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Championship game, 2:30 p.m.
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