Eudora survives Tongie
Kansas City ? Eudora High’s baseball team trimmed Tonganoxie, 4-3, on Monday in a first-round Class 4A regional game at CommunityAmerica Ballpark.
Mark Abel’s triple in the second inning plated Joe Kaup and Miles Cleveland, giving No. 1 seed Eudora its margin of victory.
The other two Cardinal runs scored in the first on a Chad Griffin RBI single and Paul Smith sacrifice fly.
Jacob Herrstrom had a two-run single in the third for eighth-seeded Tonganoxie.
Eudora’s Rod Evinger and Kent Swanson combined for the victory. Swanson was able to wiggle out of a bases-loaded, no-out jam in the fifth when Tonganoxie failed to execute a suicide squeeze. The next two batters were retired on a strikeout and groundout.
Tongie’s John Volk had 10 strikeouts in the setback.
“He was good on the mound, and we were bad at the plate. Usually that’s a bad combination,” Eudora coach Dirk Kinney said. “I’m pleased we were able to take advantage of their mistakes (four errors).”