SUGAR GROVE, Ill. – Along with playing the regularly-scheduled doubleheader Wednesday, the Olive-Harvey baseball team and host Waubonsee Community College also completed the April 7 suspended game that was halted in the third inning due to rain.
OHC lost all three decisions, falling 6-0 in the suspended game before succumbing 5-4 and 5-3 in a pair of competitive showings in the twin bill.
In the 6-0 contest, Waubonsee struck twice in the second inning and tacked on four unearned runs in the fifth off of starter Jeremiah Williams (Thornton Fractional North H.S.), who went the full six innings. In addition to giving up just two earned runs, Williams struck out four and did not issue a walk. This was the first game in 2019 that the Panthers did not yield a base on balls.
Olive-Harvey’s offense was limited to two hits – a Kardenis Jimenez (Luz America Calderon H.S./Carolina, Puerto Rico) double in the second inning and a William Wormsbecher (Pembroke Pines Charter/Pembroke Pines, Fla.) single in the third.
In Game 1 of the doubleheader, OHC rallied with three runs in the sixth inning to jump ahead 4-3. The Chiefs, however, knotted it at 4-4 in their half of the sixth before winning it in walk-off fashion in the seventh after a two-out single down the right-field line scored the runner from second base.
WCC led 3-0 after two innings, but Joseph Castillo (Bloom Trail H.S.) delivered an RBI single to center field in the fourth, enabling Wormsbecher to race home from second. Wormsbecher also scored in the sixth on another base hit off Castillo’s bat. Gabriel Sanchez (Spring H.S./Houston, Texas) doubled and scored on Jimenez’s single, while Bryon Colon’s (Pro Baseball Academy/Arroyo, Puerto Rico) squeeze plated Castillo to give the guests the 4-3 advantage.
Castillo and Jimenez both finished 2-for-3 with an RBI in the opener.
Olive-Harvey took a 1-0 lead in the first inning of the nightcap when Jimenez was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded, allowing Sanchez to trot home. After Waubonsee tallied three times in its half of the first to go in front 3-1, the Panthers tied it at 3-3, recording one run in both the second and third innings. Christian Perez (Colegio Bautista de Caguas H.S./Aguas Buenas, Puerto Rico) doubled and scored on Sanchez’s sacrifice fly to left field in the second, while Castillo doubled in Jimenez in the third.
The Chiefs broke the deadlock with an unearned run in the third inning and tacked on an insurance marker in the sixth.
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