The McDonald County junior high baseball team beat Jay, Okla., 10-3, on March 17 to win the championship of the Wyandotte Junior High Baseball Tournament.
The win was the young Mustangs' fourth in two days of tournament competition, giving McDonald County a 4-0-1 record for the season.
Weston Gordon got the win for McDonald County, pitching three and a third innings of relief.
Leading the offense were Levi Malone, Levi Helm, Bo Leach and Brandon Armstrong with two hits each. Leach had three RBIs while Helm had two and Malone one. Having one hit for the Mustangs were Dylan Igisomar, Wyatt Jordan, Cole Martin, Matthew Mora and Lee Sohse.
McDonald County opened the tournament with a 7-0 win over Grove behind the pitching of Sohse, who shut out the Ridgerunners in the four-inning win.
Malone, Igisomar and Junior Eliam had two hits each while Helm, Martin and Sohse all had one.
Eli Jackson pitched two innings in relief of Helm to get the win in McDonald County's 8-7 win over Commerce in the quarterfinals.
Igisomar had three hits while Mora, Helm, Leach had two and Malone and Martin had one.
In the tournament semifinals, Wyatt Jordan went the four-inning distance to lead the Mustangs to a 14-1 win over Miami.
Malone, Igisomar, Leach and Sohse had two hits each while Helm and Mora had one.
Commerce
McDonald County opened its season on March 13 at Commerce. The eighth-grade game ended in a 7-7 tie in six innings. Leach went the first two and third innings followed on the mound by Jackson for an inning and a third, Brandon Armstrong for an inning and Sohse for an inning.
Malone, Sohse, Leach had two hits while Helm and Mora had one.
In the seventh grade game, Braxton Spears got the win for the Mustangs in their 11-1 victory. Spears started and went two innings before Fischer Sanny and Isaac Behm each pitched an inning of relief.
Leading the offense with one hit each were Sammy Heruth, Jacob Gordon, Blaine Ortiz, Coty Dumond, Jackson Parnell, Keagan Gibson, Ethan Berkshire, Spears and Sanny.
McDonald County hosts Grove on March 22 in its home opener. Game time is 4:30 p.m.
Sports on 03/22/2018