Coming off a pair of losses in a busy week, the Durant Lion baseball team bounced back on Friday with a 4-0 win over Idabel to celebrate Senior Night.
Durant fell to district-leading Bishop Kelley (6-1) on the road to begin the week with the second game of the series postponed due to weather. The Lions also dropped a 7-4 verdict at small school power Tushka.
Offense was tough to come by for the Lions throughout the contest at Kelley as they managed only three singles before a seventh inning leadoff double from Lucas Mc-Clure. Maddox Arnold walked and McClure scored all the way from second on a fielder’s choice from Eli McClure.
Lucas McClure wrapped up with three of Durant’s four hits in the contest with the other coming from Arnold.
Cole Robbins suffered the pitching loss despite scattering just five hits and adding three strikeouts. The Comets scored three times in the first inning to take the lead for good.
The Lion bats got off to a better start at Tushka, plating three runs in the opening inning but only tallied one more run the rest of the contest. The long ball played a key role in the uprising as Robbins led off with a solo home run, Jared Avalos followed with a single and Holdan Robinson added a two-run homer.
Tushka pushed across one run in the second and three in the third frame before Durant got back on the scoreboard in the fourth. Eli McClure walked with one out, Tyson Thompson singled and Robbins chipped in a run-scoring hit that tied the game.
The Tigers tacked on one in the fifth and two more in the sixth to put it away. Lucas McClure and Jackson Williams combined to scatter nine hits and struck out five.
Thompson fueled a nine-hit Lion offense with three hits. Robbins and Robinson each posted two hits while Avalos and Eli McClure tossed in one apiece.
Keyvan Dollar got the pitching start against Idabel and worked three scoreless frames, yielding three hits with three strikeouts. Robbins also contributed two innings of two-hit, scoreless relief in the game that ended after five stanzas due to weather.
A Colton Poore RBI single with two outs put the Lions in front in the initial inning and they tacked on two more in the second with the lone hit coming on an Avalos single. Eli McClure’s solo homer in the third added the final run.
