{"id":38321,"date":"2026-05-18T07:41:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T12:41:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/?p=38321"},"modified":"2026-05-18T07:44:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T12:44:32","slug":"hearts-put-together-5-3-victory-to-claim-city-baseball-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/sports\/baseball\/38321-hearts-put-together-5-3-victory-to-claim-city-baseball-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Hearts Put Together 5-3 Victory To Claim City Baseball Series"},"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>Effingham High School came through with a 5-3 victory over Effingham St. Anthony to claim the City Baseball Series title Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The Bulldogs drew first blood, scoring a run in the opening inning. Henry Brent led off the frame with a single. With one out, Blake Verdeyen and Aiden Lauritzen drew back-to-back walks.\u00a0 A walk to Charley Spour scored Brent and the Bulldogs led 1-0.<\/p>\n<p>The lead went to Effingham in the top of the second. Max Flack drew a walk but was thrown out out. Westin Hayes doubled and came home on a double by Wyatt Hayes. Jacob Warner was hit by a pitch. Andrew Wagoner drew a walk. Brody Boehm singled and Carter Braddy followed with a single scoring a run. When the dust had cleared, Effingham held a 2-1 lead.<\/p>\n<p>But that didn&#8217;t last long. Freddie Jansen opened the second inning for the Bulldogs with a single. Chase Dorris then followed with a single. On a fielder&#8217;s choice, Will Bierman reached base and Dorris was thrown out. Brent followed with a fielder&#8217;s choice RBI. Rogan Allen singled but the Hearts got out of further damage with a fly ball.<\/p>\n<p>Effingham put runners on base in the third as Brayden Tucker singled and Max Flack drew a walk but they couldn&#8217;t bring them home.<\/p>\n<p>The Hearts put two on base in the top of the fifth as Tucker drew a walk and Flack singled. But the Bulldogs got the next three batters out to end that threat.<\/p>\n<p>The Bulldogs rumbled in the fifth as Aiden\u00a0 Lauritzen singled with two outs. Spour and Ben McDonald drew back-to-back walks to load the bases. But a fly ball out ended the frame.<\/p>\n<p>In the sixth, Effingham scored three runs. Wagoner and Boehm had back-to-back singles. Braddy followed by drawing a walk to load the bases. A walk issued to Traub scored a run. St. Anthony then got two outs but the Hearts&#8217; Westin Hayes was hit by a pitch, scoring a run. The final run came home on a passed ball and the Hearts had moved into a 5-2 lead.<\/p>\n<p>St. Anthony tallied a final run in the seventh as Verdeyen drew his second walk of the contest. Lauritzen followed with a double. A fielder&#8217;s choice and an error on a ball hit by Sp0ur, scored the run but the next three batters went down in order, ending the threat.<\/p>\n<p>Westin Hayes and Wyatt Hayes had a double and an RBI each for the Hearts while Boehm and Braddy finished with two singles each.<\/p>\n<p>St. Anthony was led by Lauritzen with a single and double.<\/p>\n<p><strong>At St. Anthony<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Effingham\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 020\u00a0 \u00a0 003\u00a0 \u00a0 0\u00a0 \u00a0 &#8212;\u00a0 \u00a0 5-9-0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>St. Anthony\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 110\u00a0 \u00a0 000\u00a0 \u00a0 1\u00a0 \u00a0 &#8212;\u00a0 \u00a0 3-7-0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>WP &#8212; Wyatt Hayes. LP &#8212; Clark.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Effingham &#8212;<\/strong> Wagoner, single; Boehm, 2 singles; Braddy, 2 singles; Traub, 1 RBI; Tucker, single; Flack, single; Wes. Hayes, double, 1 RBI; Wy. Hayes, double, 1 RBI<\/p>\n<p><strong>St. Anthony &#8212;<\/strong> Brent, single, 1 RBI; Allen, single; Lauritzen, single, double; Spour, single; Jansen, single; Dorris, single<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Effingham High School came through with a 5-3 victory over Effingham St. Anthony to claim the City Baseball Series title Friday. The Bulldogs drew first blood, scoring a run in [&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":"no","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[49],"class_list":["post-38321","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 v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Hearts Put Together 5-3 Victory To Claim City Baseball Series - Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader, 979XFM and KJ Country 102.3<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/sports\/baseball\/38321-hearts-put-together-5-3-victory-to-claim-city-baseball-series\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Hearts Put Together 5-3 Victory To Claim City Baseball Series - Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader, 979XFM and KJ Country 102.3\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/sports\/baseball\/38321-hearts-put-together-5-3-victory-to-claim-city-baseball-series\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader, 979XFM and KJ Country 102.3\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2026-05-18T12:41:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-05-18T12:44:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Millie Lange\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Millie Lange\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/sports\\\/baseball\\\/38321-hearts-put-together-5-3-victory-to-claim-city-baseball-series\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/sports\\\/baseball\\\/38321-hearts-put-together-5-3-victory-to-claim-city-baseball-series\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Millie Lange\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/0ecf2a966f6bc51e38a364270d9d4aa2\"},\"headline\":\"Hearts Put Together 5-3 Victory To Claim City Baseball Series\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-05-18T12:41:44+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-05-18T12:44:32+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/sports\\\/baseball\\\/38321-hearts-put-together-5-3-victory-to-claim-city-baseball-series\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":510,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"Sports Featured\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Baseball\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/sports\\\/baseball\\\/38321-hearts-put-together-5-3-victory-to-claim-city-baseball-series\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/sports\\\/baseball\\\/38321-hearts-put-together-5-3-victory-to-claim-city-baseball-series\\\/\",\"name\":\"Hearts Put Together 5-3 Victory To Claim City Baseball Series - Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader, 979XFM and KJ Country 102.3\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2026-05-18T12:41:44+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-05-18T12:44:32+00:00\",\"description\":\"Effingham's News and Sports Leader\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/sports\\\/baseball\\\/38321-hearts-put-together-5-3-victory-to-claim-city-baseball-series\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/sports\\\/baseball\\\/38321-hearts-put-together-5-3-victory-to-claim-city-baseball-series\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/sports\\\/baseball\\\/38321-hearts-put-together-5-3-victory-to-claim-city-baseball-series\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Hearts Put Together 5-3 Victory To Claim City Baseball Series\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/\",\"name\":\"Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader, 979XFM and KJ Country 102.3\",\"description\":\"\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader, 979XFM and KJ Country 102.3\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/02\\\/premier-logo-v1.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2025\\\/02\\\/premier-logo-v1.png\",\"width\":272,\"height\":69,\"caption\":\"Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader, 979XFM and KJ Country 102.3\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/0ecf2a966f6bc51e38a364270d9d4aa2\",\"name\":\"Millie Lange\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.thexradio.com\\\/news\\\/author\\\/millie-lange\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Hearts Put Together 5-3 Victory To Claim City Baseball Series - Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader, 979XFM and KJ Country 102.3","description":"Effingham's News and Sports Leader","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/sports\/baseball\/38321-hearts-put-together-5-3-victory-to-claim-city-baseball-series\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Hearts Put Together 5-3 Victory To Claim City Baseball Series - Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader, 979XFM and KJ Country 102.3","og_description":"Effingham's News and Sports Leader","og_url":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/sports\/baseball\/38321-hearts-put-together-5-3-victory-to-claim-city-baseball-series\/","og_site_name":"Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader, 979XFM and KJ Country 102.3","article_published_time":"2026-05-18T12:41:44+00:00","article_modified_time":"2026-05-18T12:44:32+00:00","author":"Millie Lange","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Millie Lange","Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/sports\/baseball\/38321-hearts-put-together-5-3-victory-to-claim-city-baseball-series\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/sports\/baseball\/38321-hearts-put-together-5-3-victory-to-claim-city-baseball-series\/"},"author":{"name":"Millie Lange","@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/0ecf2a966f6bc51e38a364270d9d4aa2"},"headline":"Hearts Put Together 5-3 Victory To Claim City Baseball Series","datePublished":"2026-05-18T12:41:44+00:00","dateModified":"2026-05-18T12:44:32+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/sports\/baseball\/38321-hearts-put-together-5-3-victory-to-claim-city-baseball-series\/"},"wordCount":510,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/#organization"},"keywords":["Sports Featured"],"articleSection":["Baseball"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/sports\/baseball\/38321-hearts-put-together-5-3-victory-to-claim-city-baseball-series\/","url":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/sports\/baseball\/38321-hearts-put-together-5-3-victory-to-claim-city-baseball-series\/","name":"Hearts Put Together 5-3 Victory To Claim City Baseball Series - Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader, 979XFM and KJ Country 102.3","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/#website"},"datePublished":"2026-05-18T12:41:44+00:00","dateModified":"2026-05-18T12:44:32+00:00","description":"Effingham's News and Sports Leader","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/sports\/baseball\/38321-hearts-put-together-5-3-victory-to-claim-city-baseball-series\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/sports\/baseball\/38321-hearts-put-together-5-3-victory-to-claim-city-baseball-series\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/sports\/baseball\/38321-hearts-put-together-5-3-victory-to-claim-city-baseball-series\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Hearts Put Together 5-3 Victory To Claim City Baseball Series"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/","name":"Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader, 979XFM and KJ Country 102.3","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/#organization","name":"Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader, 979XFM and KJ Country 102.3","url":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/premier-logo-v1.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/premier-logo-v1.png","width":272,"height":69,"caption":"Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader, 979XFM and KJ Country 102.3"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/#\/schema\/person\/0ecf2a966f6bc51e38a364270d9d4aa2","name":"Millie Lange","url":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/author\/millie-lange\/"}]}},"modified_by":"Millie Lange","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38321"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38326,"href":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38321\/revisions\/38326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}