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Caddo hurler Coltin Speers fires a pitch at Rock Creek batter Zaiden Craige during last week’s game at Rock Creek. Matt Swearengin | Durant Democrat -
Caddo Bruin Jake McKay reacts while up to bat in the game with Rock Creek. -
Caddo Bruin Carson Culbreath swings at the ball. Matt Swearengin | Durant Democrat -
Rock Creek Mustang Matt Buchanan tries to make it to home plate in the game with the Caddo Bruins.
Ninth-ranked Caddo blasted county rival Rock Creek and also bested a pair of other Class A state contenders during a strong week of baseball action.
The Bruins blanked Rock Creek, 11-0, in the initial game of the week and then headed to western Oklahoma to stop 10th rated Arapaho-Butler in a 7-1 win before toppling 14th ranked Hydro-Eakly, 7-2 while upping their record to 7-1 on the season.
Caddo wasted little time in jumping on the host Mustangs in the opener, plating three tallies in the first stanza while adding at least one in every frame of the run rule decision.
Kale Brister was hit by a pitch to start the contest and eventually came around to score on a Carson Culbreath one-out single to right. Coltin Speers chipped in a double and Colton Hicks walked ahead of a Ryder Wingfield two-run double.
The Bruins tacked on one in the second, two in third and fourth before finishing with three in the fifth inning.
Culbreath, Speers and Hicks all belted home runs with Jake Green also contributing a double in the nine-hit Caddo arsenal that included six of those for extra bases.
Speers was in complete control on the mound, firing a two-hit shutout as the senior righthander struck out seven and walked five. Culbreath finished with two hits and four batted as Speers drove in two with his two hits. Green, Hicks, Wingfield, Boen Proctor and Rance Richardson tallied one hit each.
T.J. Reynolds posted a double and Zaiden Craige had a single to account for the two Rock Creek hits.
In the Arapaho win, Caddo got another strong pitching performance from Culbreath, who twirled six innings while yielding one unearned run on three hits to match with a whopping 13 strikeouts. Wingfield added one frame of no hit, scoreless relief with a pair of strikeouts.
The Bruins built a 2-1 edge through four frames and put it away with two runs in the fifth and three in the seventh.
Culbreath smacked a pair of hits, including a double, and scored twice to pace the Caddo offense. Hicks chipped in two hits as Green and Jake McKay tallied one apiece.
Brister got the pitching call against Hydro-Eakly and tossed six innings for the victory, scattering three hits along with one earned run coupled with six strikeouts and three walks. Wingfield finished up once again with a frame of scoreless two-hit relief.
Rock Creek followed up with a pair of festival losses to Ripley, 2-1, and Stonewall by an 11-3 count.
Kenneth Ashby was stellar in the pitching duel against Ripley but the tough luck losing hurler despite a complete game five-hitter in which he allowed only one earned run. He fanned four and walked four.
The Mustangs plated their only tally of the game in the first stanza as Craige walked, Kris Pierce was hit by a pitch and Reynolds delivered a run-scoring double to right. He ended with two hits to go along with three from Craige in the five-hit Rock Creek attack.
Things didn’t go quite as well against Stonewall as the Longhorns cruised to four runs in the first two frames and an 8-1 lead on the way to making the most of seven hits.
Rock Creek totaled five hits with Craige adding two. Reynolds, Ashby and Konnor Ribera had one each.