Wednesday, July 3, 2019

Weather hampers Beavers week

 WILTON — The crazy summer weather hampered a big week of games for the top-ranked Wilton Beavers baseball team. Before the week, six games were on the schedule. When the week ended, the Beavers had played three games. One game was canceled at Davenport West last Wednesday and two games where postponed in-game due to lightning. The Beavers were playing 1A No. 6 Alburnett at home on Tuesday, June 25 and at West Liberty in game two of two when both were called o due to lightning delays and subsequent late starts. The Beavers won at North Cedar last Monday 6-0, 3-0 at West Liberty Thursday, and 9-1 at home against Midland last Friday. The Beavers improved to 17-1 overall and continue to be ranked No. 1 in Class 2A. 

Beavers Beat Knights 6-0
  LOWDEN — Wilton senior Collin McCrabb made his return to the pitching mound, helping the Beavers beat North Cedar 6-0 on Monday, June 24. McCrabb, who has played in the eld, but not pitched in a while, improved to 2-0 in 11 1/3 innings with the win. He pitched 4 2/3 innings, struck out eight Knights and did not walk a batter. He gave up only one hit in the game.
 Wilton scored rst with a run in the second inning to take a 1-0 lead. That score held until the Beavers pushed three runs across the plate in the top of the fifth to extend their lead to 4-0 after ve innings. Wilton added two runs in the top of the seventh to set the nal score at 6-0.
 Wilton had eight hits in the game and two players with multi-hit games. McCrabb was 2-for-3 with a double, RBI and a run scored. Ashton Stoelk was 2-for-4 with a home run and two RBI’s. Garrett Bohnsack had a hit and RBI and Brock Hartley, Jared Townsend and Brayton Wade each had hits.

Wilton wins one, gets another postponed
 WEST LIBERTY — Weather played havoc in the Beavers mid-week games last week. Lightning forced the Beavers game with Alburnett on Tuesday, June 25 to be postponed with Wilton trailing 1-0. Then, the following night on Wednesday, June 26, Wilton’s game with Davenport West was canceled before West had to make up a conference doubleheader with Muscatine because of an earlier weather issue. At press time, no word or decision has been made to resume the Alburnett contest. Wilton got back on the eld Thursday, June 27 at West Liberty. There, the Beavers beat the Comets 3-0 in game one. Game two was called due to lightning delays that had the second game starting around 10:45 p.m. The two teams were looking for dates to nish up the game.
 Against the Comets, senior Jared Townsend won his sixth game of the year, improving to 6-0 in 31 2/3 innings pitched. Townsend allowed only two hits to the Comets and struck out 14. He lowered his ERA to 0.22 and his opponent’s batting average against him to 0.097.
 Wilton scored a run in the top of the third and added two more in the top of the third to take a 3-0 lead. That score would hold for the rest of the game to give Wilton a win.
 The Beavers had nine hits in the game led by Cory Ander- son who was 3-for-4 with two stolen bases. Chantz Stevens collected two hits in four at-bats. Jared Townsend, Ashton Stoelk, Collin McCrabb, and Garrett Bohnsack also had hits.

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