BASEBALL

It took 12 innings to determine the winner between two of the league’s top teams with 2nd-seeded Taylor (43-12) finally besting 3rd-seeded Huntington 4-2 on day two of the Crossroads League Tournament.

The loss sends HU to the elimination bracket where they will face Mount Vernon on Monday at 10AM at Taylor’s Winterholter Field.

DJ Moore spent the first nine frames on the hill and after giving up three hits and a run in the first and a homer in the second for an early 2-0 Trojan lead, he settled in to allow just four hits over the next seven frames.

Frame’s crew took a while to get going offensively. After five scoreless frames, Hunter Losekamp finally changed that by sending one out of the park in the bottom of the sixth. The equalizer came in the eighth when Adam Roser singled in Jamar Weaver with a shot to right for a 2-2 truce.

After a quiet ninth, it looked like the Foresters might wrap things up in the tenth as they loaded the bases but left all three runners stranded. For the game, HU stranded 11, as did Taylor.

A timely base knock in the 12th finally broke the stalemate. On an 0-2 count, Tanner Watson singled through the hole at shortstop with bases loaded to drive in two runs to which Huntington had no answer in their half of the frame.

While Alex McCutcheon spent just 1.2 innings on the mound, he was responsible for both runs in the 12th and as such was charged with the loss. Colton Punches and Mason Shinabery tossed 0.2 innings on either side of McCutcheon. The Trojans finished with nine hits on the day to HU’s seven.

With this loss, Huntington drops to 19-23 on the year.