BY CLIFF SMELLEY
Preston Bonsall, Trenton Klein and Kacen Thomassen each drove in three runs in the Union County High School baseball team’s 20-6 win over visiting Nease on March 11.
The Tigers (3-5) scored all the runs they’d need in the first inning. Foster Smith drove in a run with a double, while Thomassen drove in one with a single. Union then scored six more runs with two outs. Klein and Ayden Androlevich drove in two runs each on a single and a double, respectively. Androlevich would score on a wild pitch, while Bonsall drew a bases-loaded walk.
Union had a 10-run second inning to go up 18-2. The first run of the inning scored when Devin Diggs drew a bases-loaded walk. The rest of the scoring took place with two outs, with Bonsall, Thomassen and Erick Lasseter each hitting a two-run single. Jake Walker hit an RBI double, while Klein had an RBI single. An error on a ground ball hit by Riggs Davis scored another run.
Klein and Thomassen each went 3 for 3.
Androlevich and Lasseter each finished with two RBI, while the Tigers got one RBI each from Davis, Diggs, Smith, Walker and Jesse Chaiken.
Starting pitcher Diggs threw two innings, giving up two runs (one earned) and one hit, while striking out four.
Bo Wilson pitched the final 2.2 innings, giving up no runs, one hit and no walks.
The Tigers entered the game off two straight losses.
On March 5, host Baldwin hit a two-out, two-run homer in the bottom of the seventh to hand Union a 3-2 defeat.
Union was held to four hits, one of which was an RBI double by Bonsall.
Diggs started on the mound, giving up one run and two hits through five innings. He had five strikeouts.
The Tigers had only two hits in a 7-2 loss at University Christian on March 7.
Lasseter hit an RBI single as part of a two-run third inning.
Androlevich entered the game at pitcher in the second inning, with the Tigers trailing 4-0. He pitched the rest of the way, allowing three runs on four hits and no walks.
Union hosts Suwannee on Tuesday, March 12, at 7 p.m. and will travel to play Trenton on Thursday, March 14, at 7:30 p.m.
