HARTINGTON — The Hartington Pony League 14-and-under baseball team won a pair of pitching duels this past week getting past Atkinson June 30 on the road, 2-0 and defeating Neligh 3-0 June 26 in a game played in Hartington.
Rylan Fischer was the “king of the hill’ in the game with Atkinson. Fischer went 5.2 innings, allowing just two hits, no runs and striking out 13 Atkinson batters. Parker Leise came on in relief and got the last out to pick up the save.
Maddox Haberer did the most damage at the plate for Hartington knocking two hits, Rylan Fischer and Cade Kleinschmit each had one hit.
Grant Klug scored both of the Hartington Ponies’ runs after working a couple of walks during the game.
Both pitching staffs threw one-hitters in the game with Neligh.
SSC0000000-013 HAR100320X-660 WP: Breiton Whitmire LP: K. Ross 2B: Brady Hochstein (H).
Lineup AB R H RBI BB SO B. Whitmire 3 1 2 0 1 0 Dylan Taylor 4 0 0 0 0 3 HBensen 4 1 01 0 1 KDetlefsen2 1 00 0 1 GHaberer 3 1 10 0 0 BHochsetein2 1 1 0 1 0 Drey Puppe 3 1 1 1 0 1 Micah Cattau 3 0 0 0 0 2 Tate Fischer 2 0 1 0 1 0 TEAM 26 6 6 2 3 8 Hartington Post 4 Sr def Tri-County 6-0.
T-C 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 4 1 HAR300102X-650 WP: Brady Hochstein LP: R. Rifer.
3B: Hunter Bensen (H).
Lineup AB R H RBI BB SO BWhitmire 3 1 11 0 1 Tate Fischer 3 1 2 1 0 1 HBensen 3 1 21 0 0 KDetlefsen1 1 00 2 1 GHaberer 2 0 01 1 0 BHochstein2 1 00 0 2 Micah Cattau 1 0 0 0 2 0 Drey Puppe 3 1 1 0 0 0 Gavin Klug 3 0 1 2 0 0 TEAM 21 6 5 5 5 5 Hartington Sr. def Pierce Senior Legion 3-0. HAR0210000-311 PIE0000000-033 WP: Koby Detlefsen LP: B. Sweeney.
2B: Koby Detlefsen (H).
Lineup AB R H RBI BB SO BWhitmire 31 00 1 3 Dylan Taylor 2 0 0 0 1 1 Hunter Bensen 3 0 0 0 1 1 Koby Detlefsen 2 0 1 0 1 1 Grady Haberer 2 1 0 0 1 1 Brady Hochstein 2 0 0 0 1 1 Micah Cattau 3 0 0 0 0 0 Drey Puppe 2 0 0 1 1 0 Mav Heine 3 0 0 0 0 2 TEAM 22 3 1 1 7 11