Centralia is 4-2 in wood bat games this season.
The Panthers finished this past weekend 2-1 in the Boonville Wood Bat Tournament by beating Kirksville 2-1 on Friday and winning 6-5 against Knob …
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Centralia is 4-2 in wood bat games this season and earned its victories this past weekend.
The Panthers finished the weekend 2-1 in the Boonville Wood Bat Tournament by beating Kirksville 2-1 on Friday and winning 6-5 in 12 innings against Knob Noster on Saturday and losing 3-2 in 11 innings to host Boonville on Saturday. Centralia (13-9) went 2-1 in the Walkoff Wood Bat Company Tournament the previous weekend, but every game this weekend was a one-run game and Centralia played its third and fourth extra-inning games of the year.
Luke Waltemate pitched seven innings with four strikeouts, four hits, three walks and one unearned run against Kirksville (7-12) in a game that had 10 combined hit. Waltemate scored on an error in the first inning, and Cooper Gehring hit a RBI single for a 2-0 lead in the fifth inning. Gehing went 2-for-4, and Cole Higginson was 2-for-3 with a double and scored on Gehring's hit.
Centralia used three pitchers against Knob Noster (11-10) in a more offensive game that had 20 combined hits. Grant Kendrick pitched 6 2/3 innings with five strikeouts, three hits and two walks. The Panthers were behind 5-4 in the seventh inning Chase Kempker single tied the game and just add to a 4-for-5 game with four RBIs, a home run and a double.
In extra innings, Kempker doubled to set up a walk-off RBI single by Henry Bohlmeyer. Bohlmeyer went 2-for-3, and Gehring was 2-for-6.
Centralia took a 2-1 lead against Boonville (13-8) in the sixth inning on a bases-loaded walk drawn by Kempker. Boonville came back to tie the game in the bottom half of the sixth on a sacrifice fly after the first three batters reached in the inning and then won the game in the 11th inning on a walk-off RBI single to score the leadoff walk.
Kempker pitched eight innings with nine hits, two earned runs, one strikeout and one walk with 97 pitches. Gehring and Waltemate each had two hits. Gehring went 2-for-3 and had two walks and one RBI, and Waltemate had a double.
Centralia (3-1 CCC) plays at Clarence Cannon Conference foe Palmyra (8-7, 3-1 CCC) at 5 p.m. Thursday.
