The good times kept rolling for Montague Tuesday against West
Michigan Conference Lakes foe Fremont, as the Wildcats extended their
winning streak to 11 games with a doubleheader sweep.
The
Wildcats won game one 5-2. Though their bats didn't come alive until the
fifth inning of the game, Eli Petersen's impressive pitching kept them
in it until then. Petersen threw 5 2/3 innings and allowed three hits
and no earned runs, striking out 10.
Montague (12-2, 6-0 WMC
Lakes) tied the score at 1 in the fifth on Cole Moss' RBI single, then
broke through in the sixth when Chase Kurtzhal doubled in Tyson
Schattenberg. Karter Johnson followed with his own RBI double.
Eli
Pendell provided the 'Cats an insurance run in the seventh when he
smashed a home run over the left field wall. Moss scored earlier in the
seventh on a Fremont error.
Pendell got the save, pitching 1 1/3 innings after Petersen hit his pitch-count limit. Moss and Kurtzhal each got two hits.
The
'Cats then trounced Fremont 11-1 in game two, ending things in five
innings. After Montague got a run on a wild pitch in the second, Levi
Auger laced a RBI double to make it 2-0. Cole Herremans then joined
Pendell in the home run club in the third by hitting one over the wall
in left field. The 'Cats added four runs each in the fourth and fifth.
Moss
went 3-for-4 with three RBI, and Kurtzhal, Pendell and Auger got two
hits apiece. Herremans got the win, striking out seven and allowing
three hits and one run in five innings.
