HUMBOLDT — The Humboldt High baseball team got behind a pair of dominant pitching outings and swept Bluestem in their first home games of the season.
The Cubs (6-0) allowed Trey Sommer and Logan Page to have their way on the mound, combining to allow only one run through 12 innings. The Humboldt bats didn’t wake up until the fifth inning of game one but they came in bunches as the Cubs won 7-1 and 11-0.
“I just hope our pitchers continue to fill up the zone, attack hitters and keep playing strong defense behind them,” Humboldt head coach Mike Miller said. “Hopefully our hitters can keep improving and keep building off this.”
Game one
Humboldt was able to jump ahead immediately in the first inning and pace themselves behind the arm of Sommer for a 7-1 victory.
Sam Hull ignited the scoring when he ripped a standup triple to lead off the bottom of the first and then scored on a Brody Gunderman RBI groundout for the 1-0 lead.
Sommer allowed Bluestem to score their only run of the game in the top of the second inning when Dawson Crutcher walked and then scored on an RBI groundout.
“It’s really just our pitchers doing a great job keeping us in games, getting us out of tough situations and waiting for those bats to come around and put together a big inning,” said Miller. “It’s always going to come and then you don’t let it up, keep putting it on them.”
Blake Ellis knocked a leadoff double in the bottom of the second and scored on a Cole Mathes RBI groundout for the 2-0 lead heading into the third.
Sommer and Page both reached on walks and scored on a Colden Cook two-run double for a 4-1 lead in the fifth.
Ellis drove Cook and Page home on an RBI single for the 6-1 advantage. Ellis then scored on a Kyler Isbel RBI single for the 7-1 edge. Humboldt posted one more run in the bottom of the sixth when Sommer singled and came home on a Cook RBI double.
Humboldt had eight hits, led by Cook’s three hits. Hull, Ellis and Harrington each collected two hits.
Game two
It was all Humboldt in the second game. The Cubs shut out Bluestem’s hitting and secured a run-rule 11-0 victory after five innings.
Hull singled and stole home on a wild pitch for the early 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first.
