Leader Photo by Gerrard Diaz Bonduel American Legion pitcher Jacob Springborn tags out Clintonville’s Parker Mindel at home during Monday’s game in Bonduel. Bonduel lost, 12-2.
The Bonduel American Legion baseball team gave up 15 hits Monday in a 12-2 loss to Clintonville at home.
Bonduel (2-2) managed just five hits on Diamond Cats pitcher Turner Doornink, who struck out six and walked four in seven innings.
“It was a bummer of a game,” Bonduel coach Jason Luepke said. “That wasn’t the way we were playing ball the last three, that’s for sure.”
Doornink also had a pair of hits off Bonduel’s Jake Luepke, who gave up 10 hits and nine runs in five innings. He struck out three and walked one, before giving way to Jacob Springborn, who allowed three runs on three hits, struck out one and walked three in the final two innings.
Clintonville got a pair of runs in the first off a Bonduel error and a Jake VanAllen single.
An RBI triple by Connor Rosin, who would also hit a double in the game, cut the Clintonville lead to 2-1 in the bottom of the first.
“We got out of a jam in the first inning,” Clintonville coach Jeremy Schoenike said. “Pitching was a little wild, but Turner settled down and managed to hold them to just five hits.”
VanAllen led off the top of the fourth with a single, advanced to second on a Zac Riemer hit and scored on a Nick Hogen single. With two outs and runners on third and second, Bonduel chose to intentionally walk Doornink, loading the bases for Parker Mindel, who hit an RBI single and would finish the game with three hits and three RBIs.
Jansen VanDaalwyk, who also finished with three hits and three RBIs, then hit a double to score three more runs before Bonduel managed to get the final out on a grounder by Damon Lorge.
Clintonville added another pair of runs in the fifth on a sacrifice fly and a Bonduel error.
Springborn walked the first two batters he faced in the bottom of the sixth, but Bonduel picked off Mindel trying to steal home on a wild pitch. Springborn then struck out Lorge, and VanAllen lined out to the shortstop.
Doornink and Mindel combined to drive in three runs in the seventh to go up 12-1. Bonduel managed only one run in the seventh.
“We had guys in scoring position and we had big hits,” Schoenike said. “That’s what it takes to win some games.”
“It was a tough team, you have to give it to them,” coach Luepke said. “They hit the ball well.”