Baseball Roundup, April 1: Advance capitalizes on Scott City's mistakes, wins 14-3

The Advance Hornets took advantage of seven errors and 10 walks by the Rams and rolled to a 14-3 victory Wednesday at Scott City.

Only three of Advance’s runs were earned.

Layton Keith secured the win, allowing three runs — two earned — on seven hits with 12 strikeouts and two walks in five innings.

Colin Blaylock was charged with the loss, surrendering eight runs — none earned — on three hits with four strikeouts and five walks in 2 1/3 innings.

Hayden Laird went 2 for 2 with a double and two RBIs. Jed Garner went 2 for 4 with two RBIs. Keith went 1 for 3 with a double, and Gus Garner drove home two runs.

Logan Speakman went 2 for 3 with one RBI. Skyler Sykes went 2 for 3 with a triple. Andrew Enderle went 1 for 3 with a double and one RBI.

Notre Dame 11, Fredricktown 0

Notre Dame’s run of dominance continued on Wednesday after defeating Fredericktown 11-0 in five innings.

The Bulldogs have extended their winning streak to four and have also scored in double digits in each win.

Notre Dame secured the victory after a six-run third inning highlighted by an inside-the-park home run by Ben Pearson.

“Out of the box, I was going for two and I looked up and I saw [head coach Jeff Graviett] keep waving me so I just kept running,” Pearson said. “It was awesome.”

Due to an error, Pearson was only awarded a double. He went 2-for-2 with 2 RBI.

Jon Dohogne, Austin Gast, and Cole Lemons all contributed in the big inning with RBIs. Gast also hit a two-run double in the first inning to start the scoring.

Conner Wissnger went 2-for-2 with two RBI and Blake Anderson went 2-for-3.

Noah Gadberry and Grant James combined to no-hit Fredericktown. Gadberry struck out seven batters in three innings.