Game to be played today at Oregon Rec Center
By CHUCK RIDENOUR Daily Globe Sports Editor
FREMONT — For the second straight day Shelby and Sandusky Perkins were unable to complete their district semifinal baseball game at Fremont Ross Friday.
The game was postponed due to rain earlier in the afternoon that left the field unplayable.
The two schools will attempt a third time to get the game in today at 12 noon. The contest has been moved from Fremont Ross to the Oregon Rec Center which has a turf infield.
The Whippets-pirates winner will return to Fremont Ross Monday for the district championship game at 12 noon against Norwalk.
The first day, especially the first inning, did not go well for Shelby in their Division II District semifinal baseball game Thursday against Sandusky Perkins.
Hopefully things will turn for the better when the Whippets return to Alumni Field to complete the game with the Pirates.
Action in the contest was suspended by rain in the bottom of the third inning.
SHS got off to a rocky start when Perkins plated four runs — all unearned — with the aid of one hit, but that lone hit was a huge one.
After getting runners on first and third with one out, Shelby was unable to score as a strikeout and groundout thwarted the red and gray.
Consecutive errors by Whippet infielders to begin the Pirates bottom of the first spelled trouble and put runners at first and third. Nathan Majoy’s sacrifice fly to right plated the first run.
Kaiden Weyer then walked before SHS pitcher Marshall Shepherd fanned Ben Keller for the second out.
Shepherd was a strike away from getting out of the inning without any further damage when Nolan Thomas drove a 2-2 offering over the left field fence for a three-run homer to make it 4-0.
Shelby got two runners aboard with one out in the second, but were denied when consecutive strikeouts put an end to the threat.
Shepherd opened the Perkins second with a strike, but Whippet coach Jon Amicone sensed weather might become a factor and pulled his ace.
Shepherd threw only 30 pitches and is eligible to return to the mound when the game resumes Friday. Alex Bruskotter and Landon Kennard worked the second. The latter pitched to one batter in the home half of the third.
Through the first three innings SHS had already stranded five runners on the base paths.
The Pirates opened the bottom of the third with a single by Weyer when the umpires suspended the game due to rain.