UNOH Completes Cornerstone Sweep in Rescheduled Game Two

LIMA, OH - UNOH and Cornerstone had to postpone the second game of their doubleheader on Friday after game one produced 45 runs and lasted more than three and a half hours. When the two took the field again on Sunday, the rescheduled game looked very similar to the first generating 28 total runs in a 19-9 run-rule win for the Racers.

The Golden Eagles led off the game with back-to-back singles but were denied with bases loaded thanks to consecutive strikeouts by former Elida hurler, Brayden Lybarger. UNOH then began their offensive trip of the game with three home runs in their first four at bats. Eliomar Otero and Casey Barnes both went yard for the first time this year with Zach Grigalis ripping his team leading fourth of the season. A Tyler Huff double and a Brennan Green RBI groundout followed making it a 4-0 game after one.

Cornerstone threatened again in the second but were shut down again by Lybarger giving his team a chance to expand on the lead. Otero answered the call with a lead off double that began a five-hit frame that resulted in six more runs and a comfortable 10-0 lead. The inning was highlighted by a little league home run from Nolan Hull who blasted a ball off the top of the batters eye in center field for a two-run triple. The play was capped by an errant throw by the Golden Eagle shortstop that sailed past the third baseman as Hull slid in allowing him to trot home for the score.

The Racer third had a little bit of everything with two hit batters, two walks, a wild pitch and a RBI single culminating in three more runs and the third crooked number in as many innings. Cornerstone finally got their offense humming in the top of the fourth stringing together two singles and a double before finishing off the frame with a three run bomb that shaved six runs off the lead.

Otero erased half of that work with one swing the home half of the inning pelting his second homer of the game but this time scoring three. Tyler Huff doubled to left and Hull singled to third adding up to a six-run inning of their own and a 19-6 lead. The Golden Eagles hit their second home run of the game in the fifth, scoring two, and worked one across in the seventh but the ten-run cushion remained ending the game early.

Nolan Hull ended the day with a perfect 4-4 record at the plate driving in three and scoring twice. Eliomar Otero and Brennan Green both tallied three hits and four RBI while Tyler Huff's three hits resulted in two runs driven in. 

Brayden Lybarger's day ended after three and a third innings with five runs allowed on five hits with five strikeouts and three walks. Dueces were wild for reliever Josh Mauney who gave up two runs on two hits with two strikeouts over two innings work for his second win of the week. A second former Elida standout, Jordan Davis threw the final inning with one run on two hits, a walk and a strikeout. Carter Hicks and Perry product Ryan Yingst also took the mound briefly facing three batters between them to finish off the fourth inning.

UNOH is now 6-2 in their last eight games and will try to pick up two more wins after five days off with a trip to Siena Heights on Saturday, March 21.