Hearts Win Baseball Doubleheader

Effingham High School captured a baseball doubleheader over Centralia in action Saturday.

The Hearts won the opener 7-5. EHS trailed 5-3 after four innings then tallied a run in the fifth and three in the sixth to pull out the victory.

EHS had eight hits in the contest but had four errors. Cooper Jackson had a single, triple and an RBI while Mason Hull added a triple and an RBI and Ryan Sandifer and Parker Seachrist had a double and an RBI each. Brett Koester had two singles.

In the second contest, Effingham tallied a 13-3 win in six innings via the 10-run rule.

The Hearts scored three in the first and never looked back in this one.

Brayton Poland had a  ingle, double and four RBI while Hull and Jackson added a double each. Sandifer and Zack Lee had a single and three RBI each.

At Effingham

Game One

Centralia              131    000    0    --    5-4-1

Effingham            111    013    x    --    7-8-4

WP -- Koester. LP -- Whritenour.

Centralia -- Clossen, double; Hoh, single; Griffin, single; Such, 1 RBI; Reed single

Effingham -- Koester, 2 singles; Hull, triple, 1 RBI; Sandifer, double, 1 RBI; Seachrist, double, 1 RBI; Jackson, single, triple, 1 RBi; Ballman, single, 1 RBI

Game Two

Centralia              000    300    --      3-  2-1

Effingham            302    251    --    13-10-1

WP -- Hull. LP -- Wells.

Centralia -- Clossen, single; Eller, 1 RBI; Reed, single, 2 RBI

Effingham -- Ballman, single; Lohman, single; Hull, double; Petersen, single; Sandifer, single, 3 RBI; Poland, single, double, 4 RBI; Lee, single, 3 RBI; Jackson, double; Bishop, single