After rallying to win its opener in walk-off fashion, the McDonald County 16U baseball team dropped its final two games of the Carl Junction 16U Baseball Tournament held May 26-28 at Carl Junction High School.
McDonald County trailed Carl Junction 8-5 entering the bottom of the sixth and final inning before scoring four runs on three walks and two hits to pull out the win.
Brothers Trent and Tae-Shaun Alik started the rally by drawing walks to lead off the inning. Cory Creason walked to load the bases before Koby McAlister drove in a run with a single. Kammeron Hopkins followed with a single that drove in two runs to tie the game. McAlister scampered home with the winning run when Carl Junction threw the ball away trying to cut down the tying run.
McDonald County scored four runs in the third inning to take a 4-0 lead. Tae-Shaun Alik walked, McAlister singled and Hopkins walked to load the bases. Omar Manuel, walked to force in a run before Cade Smith singled in another for a 2-0 lead. McDonald County's final two runs came on an error on Jackson Behm's ground ball.
But Carl Junction rallied with two runs on the top of the fourth off of Smith on three walks and a hit batter. In the fifth, Carl Junction scored six runs on four walks, a hit batter and an error off of Smith and Behm, who finished the game to get the win.
McDonald County scored a run in the bottom half of the inning of three walks and a single by Hopkins.
McAlister had three singles to lead McDonald County while Hopkins had two and Smith had one.
McDonald County dropped its final two games in pool play, 17-5 to Nixa and 8-1 to Fort Scott.
Against Nixa, McAlister took the loss on the mound while Colliar Gottfried, Hopkins and McAlister led the offense with one hit each.
Behm started in the 8-1 loss to Fort Scott. Hopkins and Manuel had hits in the bottom of the seventh to spoil Fort Scott's no-hit bid.
McDonald County takes its 1-2 record to Grove on June 3-4 for the Grove 16U Baseball Tournament.
Sports on 06/01/2017