SEMINOLE, Okla. — A walk-off win by Seminole Junior College spoiled a memorable spring debut by Allen Community College’s Jerrik Sigg Saturday. SATURDAY’S loss in the opener spoiled a gutty effort by Allen’s Tanner Lee, who scattered nine hits over six innings before giving up a leadoff walk in the bottom of the seventh. Lucas Westervelt came on in relief and gave up two hits, including the two-out single by St. Louis to end the game. THE TROJANS scored in all five innings of its 11-1 win, taking advantage of nine hits, five walks and four Allen errors. SUNDAY’S series finale turned on Seminole’s four-run fifth inning, erasing a 3-2 Red Devil lead.
The Iola native drilled a game-tying homer home run in the Red Devils’ season-opener on the first pitch he saw in the top of the seventh with Allen trailing 2-1.
But the Trojans responded with a walk-off single by Phillipe Craig St. Louis in the bottom of the inning in Seminole’s 3-2 win.
The defeat set the tone for the rest of the series for Allen, which subsequently dropped 11-1 and 7-3 decisions.
Allen (0-3) returns to action Tuesday with a doubleheader at Evangel University in Springfield, Mo.
Seminole took a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first before Tim Lewis, Garrett Rasch and Nate Arnold opened the top of the fourth with singles. Sigg grounded into a double play, scoring Lewis, for the Red Devils’ only run of the inning.
Seminole went back up 2-1 with a run in the bottom of the sixth, setting up the climactic seventh.
Lee gave up nine hits and four walks over six innings with seven strikeouts.
Lewis went 3-for-3 on the day, all on singles. Clint Heffern added a single for the Red Devils.
The Red Devils, conversely, could muster only three hits.
Rasch reached on a walk and stole a base before scoring on an RBI single by Arnold in the top of the third. Sigg had led off the inning with a double, but was picked off prior to Arnold’s single.
Rasch had Allen’s only other hit, a first-inning single.
Seth Jones took the loss, giving up six hits and four walks in four innings, to go with two strikeouts. Auston Weldy and Jordan Hicks combined to go two-thirds of an inning, giving up three hits and a walk.
The game ended when Seminole State scored three runs in the bottom of the fifth, giving the Trojans a 10-run lead.
Allen scored one in the fourth and two more in the fifth.
Heffern started Allen’s fifth-inning rally with a single. He advanced to third on a Troy Willoughby single and scored when Lewis reached on an error. The runners advanced on an Arnold single before Sigg delivered a sacrifice fly for the Red Devils’ third run.
One inning earlier, Drew Walden’s two-out single scored Sigg, who reached on a one-out walk and stole second.
Hunter Miller took the loss, giving up two hits and three walks in two innings of relief work, with three strikeouts. Gage Dickerson went three innings with the start, giving up three hits and an earned run with four strikeouts. Jake Johnson gave up a hit and walk in his inning of relief. Arnold gave up one hit in two innings with three strikeouts. The Red Devil hurlers tallied 11 strikeouts in the contest.
Lewis had two singles for Allen.
Seminole sweeps Red Devils
