RickTucker NRG Media Central Nebraska Today Kearney high vs Millard North
KEARNEY – Things went from bad to worse for Kearney Baseball on Monday, falling 17-2 to Millard North at Memorial Field in a five-inning contest. Click here to listen to the broadcast replay.
The Bearcats (10-10) have dropped their last three games, and failed to muster a run until the fourth inning in which Millard North had already taken a 17-0 advantage. The Mustangs (5-11) won with seventeen runs on twelve hits, committing only one error, while Kearney fell, scoring two runs on four hits with four errors.
The opening inning had the makings of a strong contest, as Millard North mustered their first hit but Kearney knocked down the first three batters with a Kole Throckmorton throw from the plate to tag-out a stolen base. However, the Mustangs took hold of communication mistakes by Kearney in the second inning, scoring four runs including one off an error.
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Kearney high vs Millard North
The Bearcats failed to respond, setting up a ten run inning in the third, and the Mustangs adding three more in the fourth before the game was called a run-rule victory for the visiting Millard North squad after five.
Kearney has the rest of the week off prior to starting their final stretch of the regular season with eight games remaining in a ten-day span beginning on Saturday with a triangular against Norfolk and Omaha South.
