It has been a really tough few days for our Mustangs, and in particular our pitching staff, against quality competition.  Things started off OK, allowing five runs to Beechwood in three innings on Wednesday—creditable.  But things snowballed from there.  In that contest 11 more runs would follow in the next two innings as we were run-ruled 16-1 after five frames.  None of us will be surprised if Beechwood wins their 7th All “A” State Championship next weekend in Owensboro.  In the Friday night contest with Dublin/Scioto (OH) we were victimized for 11 runs in five innings, and spared the mercy rule by plating three runs in the bottom of the fifth, forcing a seven inning, complete game.  In that contest Carter Boruske limited the visitors from the Buckeye State to a single run in the final three innings in relief.  It is notable that Montgomery County no-hit Dublin/Scioto 12 hours later.

In our contest with Montgomery County, defying the weatherman, and getting in seven innings, again the visitors feasted on Mustang pitching, scoring 19 runs.  While we were able to put up 11 runs ourselves in this slugfest, we were unable to keep pace with the Indians.  Doing some quick math, in those three games we allowed 46 runs on 40 hits, walked 24 opponents while striking out 10.  We were struck out 24 times.  In total for the last three games we sent a total of eight pitchers to the mound, two of them twice.  In the MoCo game we received an outstanding offensive day by Isaac Amin, who doubled twice and hit a home run, his second of the season and the team’s fifth.  In the process he scored on three occasions and knocked home three teammates.  Brady Boruske was our other multi-hit Mustang, going 2 for 5, scoring a pair of runs.  Ben Doyle doubled and Kasey Moeller tripled.

After a much needed day off on Sunday, we will be back in action at the MAC Monday night as we host Scott in a 37th District seeding battle scheduled for 5:30pm.