The Kingston High School baseball team posted one victory in four games during the Annual Broken Bow Spring Break Shootout last week.
In its first outing the Redskins were 11-3 winners against Hartshorne. They then dropped an 11-10 nailbiter to Harrah, fell to McAlester by a 10-0 count and also being nipped by Lindsay, 6-5.
The Redskins were slated to return to district play this week at Hugo before participating in the Sulphur Festival this weekend.
FacingHartshorne,Kingston trailed 3-1 going into the fifth inning but erupted in one half inning for 10 runs to take the contest via run rule.
EwanWeavercontributed four RBI in the flurry, starting the uprising with a leadoff home run and later came up withthebasesloadedtodeliver a triple. Brock Rumer and Hayden Seeney contributed run-scoring singles as well.
That flurry picked up the pitching victory for Blane Henry, who scattered three runs (two earned) on four hits and struck out four.
Weaver’shugegameatthe plate also included a double as he was only a single away from hitting for the cycle. Rumer contributed two hits with one each by Reid Patterson and Seeney as both knocked in one run.
A late outburst highlighted the Harrah contest as well with Kingston exploding for eight tallies in the top of the seventh to claim a 10-6 advantage, only to watch the Panthers answer with five in the bottom of the frame for the win.
Weaver was terrific in leading the offensive charge once again, posting three hits that included a double and triple while driving in three runs. Seeney also tallied three hits and drove in a pair as Rumer and Henry contributed two hits apiece as well.
Kingston managed only a pair of hits (singles from Rumer and Ethan Mowles) in the McAlester defeat but picked things back up at the plate in the Lindsay contest as the Redskins built a 5-1 cushion in the sixth inning. They were unable to hold off the Leopards however as four singles and three errors did Kingston in with Lindsay pushing across five runs for the win.
Seeney tossed in two of the Redskins’ six hits in the contest with one each from Rumer, Brady Greene, Lander Burkhalter and Jaksyn Martin.