The Wayland High School baseball team this past week swept three games against O-K Gold Conference rival Grand Rapids Catholic Central to bring its league record to 8-7, 14-10 overall.
The Wildcats took both ends of a doubleheader Tuesday, 4-3 and 5-4.
In game one, Catholic Central scored twice in the top of the first inning to take a 2-0 lead before Wayland retaliated in the bottom of the third.
Reagan Mutschler lead off with a line drive base hit to center, then Bryce Calkins belted a two-run homer to left o tie it at 2. Cameron Carnevale, Carter Koopman had singles in the inning and Cameron Bogard drove in Carnevale with an RBI single.
Catholic tied it in the top of the fifth with two singles. Carnevale led off with a walk in the bottom of the fifth, and was replaced by Tommy Corneille as a pinch runner. Corneille advanced to second on a balk, then third on a passed ball before Brady Cassini drilled an RBI line drive single to center scoring Cornellie.
Carter Koopman pitched 7 innings for the win, giving up 4 hits, 3 runs, 1 earned run 0 walks and 4 Ks. Dustin Loomans and Bryce Calkins each had multiple hits, going 2-4 at the plate.
Catholic took a three-run lead in the top of the first of the nightcap on two 2 singles, a double, two walks, a hit batter, and an error. In the bottom half, the Wildcats responded with two runs, as Dustin Loomans reached base on an error, advanced to second on a fielders choice, Bryce Calkins reached base on an error, scoring Loomans, and Brayden Byrne unloaded an RBI double.
Catholic went up 4-2 in the second due to a single and error.
Carter Koopman led off the bottom of the fourth with a walk eventually scoring on an RBI single by Dustin Loomans to bring the ‘Cats to within one, 4-3.
Brady Cassini singled in the fifth, Cameron Bogard drove him in with a base hit to center to tie it at 4.
Reagan Mutschler came up with a one-out doubled in the sixth, followed by Cameron Carnevale’s doublehitting the top of the fence, barely missing a home run, in driving Mutschler with the winning run.
Mutschler started and pitched 5 1/3 innings, allowing 4 runs, 3 earned, 3 walks, and 1 K. Calkins came in relief working, 1 2/3 innings, 1 hit, 0 runs, 1 walk and 1 K to earn the victory.
The Wildcats put on their hitting shoes Thursday to score a 14-2 triumph at Catholic Central.
They trailed in the early going, just as they did in the first two games. But they rallied for five runs in the third inning
Trent Sikkema started it with a walk, followed by a single from Dustin Loomans, an RBI single from Reagan Mutschler, scoring Eugene Wierkz (courtesy running for Sikkema), an RBI double from Calkins, scoring Loomans, and a two-RBI single from Carnevale, scoring Mutschler and Zander Davenport (courtesy running for Calkins), an error leading to Carnevale scoring to make it 5-2 ‘Cats.
Wayland rallied again in the fourth, scoring six more runs. Loomans started the fireworks with double, followed by a Mutschler single, an RBI single from Calkins, a Brady Cassini RBI single, a Carter Koopman single, an RBI walk from Cameron Bogard an RBI hit by pitch from Trent Sikkema. And then Koopman and Bogard both scored on passed balls, turning it into an 11-2 rout,
Brayden Byrne, Koopman and Bogard stroked singles in the fifth to finish off the scoring.
Mutschler and Koopman went 3-for-3 at the plate with a walk apiece. Koopman, Calkins and Loomans had doubles. Calkins, Carnevale and Bogard had 2 RBIs each.
Bryce Calkins earned the victory, pitching five innings, allowing 4 hits, 2 runs, 0 earned runs, 2 walks and 8 Ks.
