Huron baseball team splits with Cheboygan

The Huron varsity baseball team (14-4-1) came away with a split in Tuesday?s doubleheader with Cheboygan. Hot weather prevailed in the Hurons win in game one while a cool breeze swept the field as the Hurons suffered a loss in the second game. A five-run first inning set the tone for a 10-6 win for the Hurons and lefty Isaac Freel in the opener. Freel went all the way, scattering 10 hits while walking one and striking out four. Cheboygan got its hits in bunches off Freel, leading to three runs in the third and three more in the fourth innings. Rogers City answered in the bottom half of the third with four runs and scored an insurance run in the fifth.

JUNIOR FIRST baseman Jake Bellmore led the hitting attack with a triple, two singles and two RBI. Ben Basel, Justin Wilbert, and Tyler Schuiteman each had two hits in the game. Cheboygan limited the Hurons to just three hits in a 2-1 loss in the second game. The Hurons scored their only run of the game in the fifth inning. Chris Santini singled, stole second, and came around on Wilbert?s single. Rogers City had the bases loaded with one out in the sixth, only to have the rally killed with a strikeout and a ground out.

Bellmore started and pitched four innings. He allowed two hits and three walks, whil

e striking out four. Chris Paschke worked out of a jam in the fifth inning, setting down the side after coming in with the bases loaded and nobody out.

THE HURONS got in just one partial game of a scheduled twin bill last Friday, but it will count as an official game. Rogers City scored six runs in the first, four in the second, two in the third and two more in the fourth. St. Ignace had a four-run third inning, but the game was called at 14-4 when the rains came down. Paschke got credit for the win, as he pitched three innings, allowing four runs on four hits and two walks. He struck out three in the game.

Schuiteman had a great game at the plate, blasting a grand slam home run and adding a two-RBI single. Cody Wenzel added a homer and a single while Austin Fairbanks had a double and a single. The Hurons play in Rudyard today (Thursday) and travel to a tournament in Ogemaw Saturday.