Oswego East baseball hosts the 4-1 Naperville North Huskies for a non-conference matchup. North enters off a 10-3 win over Plainfield South, while the Wolves are 1-5 after a 10-8 loss to Hinsdale Central. This highlight is sponsored by BMO.
Oswego East baseball scores in the opening inning and stops the Huskies with a double-play
In the bottom of the first inning, Oswego East’s Dominic Battista singles to put two men on for the Wolves.
A few pitches later, Wolves’ Jascen Tucker gets the scoring started as his hit finds the outfield grass to score. The score is 1-0 in favor of the Wolves
Oswego pulls off the trickery as the double steal works to perfection to score another run in the first.
In the top half of inning number two, Naperville North is threatening with a man on, but some slick defense gets the Wolves out of the jam on the nice double play.
Brady Marino hits an RBI single up the middle for Naperville North
In the top of the third, Brady Marino puts Naperville North on the board with this RBI knock up the middle. Oswego East leads 3-1 heading into the bottom of the third.
Mason Palermo doubles to put two Wolves into scoring position. Oswego does go on to score off a passed ball, and we’ll head into the fifth.
In the top of the inning, Naperville North scores its second run via a sacrifice fly off the bat of Max Steele, scoring Sam Steele from third.
Later on, Lawton Close hits a hard grounder that the third basemen can’t corral! It scores Matt Sonnenschein and Oswego East still holds a 4-3 lead.
The Wolves wrap it up with two more runs
The Wolves respond in the bottom of the fifth by Tucker smacking one up the middle for an RBI single to make it 5-3.
One batter later, Palermo singles and watch Tucker run all the way first to home! He does get thrown out at third trying to stretch it into a triple.
Matt Cantrell singles and scores on an error in the sixth for the Huskies to make it 6-4, but the Wolves shut the door from there. Oswego East goes on to beat Naperville North 6-4 and improves to 2-5 on the season. North falls to 4-2 with the only losses coming to Oswego and Oswego East.
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