{"id":16466,"date":"2025-08-21T09:27:28","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T14:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/?p=16466"},"modified":"2025-08-21T09:27:28","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T14:27:28","slug":"south-central-north-clay-win-in-high-school-baseball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/sports\/baseball\/16466-south-central-north-clay-win-in-high-school-baseball\/","title":{"rendered":"South Central, North Clay Win In High School Baseball"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"javascript: window.print()\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_self\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><span class=\"pdfprnt-button-title pdfprnt-button-print-title\">Print<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>CENTRALIA &#8212; The South Central Cougars rallied from a four-run deficit but couldn&#8217;t close the gap as they fell 8-7 to Centralia Christ Our Rock Lutheran in high school baseball action Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Cougars got on board in the top of the first when Ryker Dodson singled to score Chase Guerrettaz. South Central added two more runs after a bases-loaded hit by pitch and a wild pitch to take a 3-0 lead.<\/p>\n<p>The Stallions tied the game in the bottom of the second but the Cougars responded as Sebastion Kruger hit an RBI double to move them into a 4-3 lead.<\/p>\n<p>But CORL blew the game open, scoring four runs in the third and one in the fifth to take an 8-4 lead. However South Central didn&#8217;t go away quietly, after scoring a run in the fifth and two in the sixth to cut the deficit to one.<\/p>\n<p>With two outs in the seventh, the Cougars put the tying run on but couldn&#8217;t bring him home and fell 8-7.<\/p>\n<p>The game was the season-opener for the Cougars who will be back in action Saturday facing Woodlawn in a doubleheader.<\/p>\n<p><strong>At Centralia<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>South Central &#8212;<\/strong> Guerrettaz, 2 hits; Moore, 1 hit; Dodson, 1 hit, 1 RBI; Hoover, 3 hits, 1 RBI; Kruger, 2 hits, 2 RBI; Jones, 2 RBI<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>At Louisville<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>North Clay (Louisville) trounced Odin by a 14-1 count Wednesday. The Cardinals are now 2-0 on the season.<\/p>\n<p>North Clay isn&#8217;t back in action until Tuesday against Cowden-Herrick\/Beecher City in a 4:30 p.m. contest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CENTRALIA &#8212; The South Central Cougars rallied from a four-run deficit but couldn&#8217;t close the gap as they fell 8-7 to Centralia Christ Our Rock Lutheran in high school baseball [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[49],"class_list":["post-16466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baseball","tag-sports-featured"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>South Central, North Clay Win In High School Baseball - 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