The Morris Eagle varsity baseball team opened district play Monday against the Cascia Hall Commandoes in Tulsa.
The Morris Eagle varsity baseball team opened district play Monday against the Cascia Hall Commandoes in Tulsa.
The Eagles, who are part of District 3A-5, dropped both meetings against the host Commandoes by margins of 15-4 and 11-1, respectively.
The Morris diamond squad was scheduled to travel to Oklahoma City and Bethel Thursday and Friday, respectively, and will also be on the road Monday with a trip to Beggs for a county showdown with the Beggs Golden Demons.
In Monday’s district opener with Cascia Hall, the Eagles opened the scoring with three runs in the top of the first.
Cascia Hall took over the lead at 7-3 with seven runs in the bottom of the first, then added four in the second, three in the third, and one in the fourth for a 15-3 advantage.
The Eagles were only able to produce one run in the top of the fifth to suffer the run-rule loss by a 15-4 margin.
Koen Burgess got the start on the mound for Morris in the district opener and was saddled with the pitching loss. Burgess worked the first two innings on the bump for the Eagles, allowing 11 runs on eight hits with two strikeouts, two walks, and three hit batters.
Trey Daniels worked the final two innings in relief, giving up four runs on two hits, walking three and striking out one.
Daniels (2 for 3, 2 singles) and Junior Walls (2 for 3, 2 singles, RBI) led the Morris offensive attack against Cascia Hall with two hits each.
The other Eagle base hits in Game 1 came on a single by Remington Wade and RBI singles by Lance Clark and Gage Adkins.
Wyatt Clark drove in one of the four Morris runs in the contest with an RBI walk.
In Monday’s second district game with Cascia Hall, the Eagles jumped out to an early 1-0 advantage in the top of the first with an RBI sacrifice fly by Junior Walls.
Cascia Hall tallied three runs in the home half of the first for a 3-1 lead, then plated eight runs in the bottom of the third for the 11-1 margin.
Neither team tallied any runs in the next inning and one-half of action to put the Morris diamond squad on the losing end of an 11-1, run-rule, loss.
The Eagles were limited to four hits in the contest - all singles. The four base hits in Game 2 came from Walls, James Berry, Wyatt Clark, and Gage Adkins.
Berry got the start on the mound for Morris in Game 2 and absorbed the pitching loss, allowing nine runs on five hits, striking out three, walking one, and hitting three in two and onethird innings of work.
Lance Clark worked the next inning and two-thirds in relief, giving up two runs on two hits with two strikeouts and two walks.
--- First Game
Cascia Hall 15, Morris 4
Morris:3-0-0-0-1 4-7-3 Cascia:7-4-3-1-x 5-10-0 WP: No. 14 LP: Koen Burgess HR: None --- Second Game
Cascia Hall 11, Morris 1
Morris:1-0-0-0-0 1-4-5 Cascia:3-0-8-0-x 11-7-0 WP: No. 6 LP: James Berry HR: None
