Lincoln High School who traditionally has one of the strongest athletic
programs in the county were no match for the small but mighty Lion's as
senior pitchers Sam Sheehan and Brock Bentley combined to shutout the
Hornets on Tuesday leading Calvary Christian to a sound 7-0 victory in a
non-league contest.
The two pitchers allowed only 3 hits, walked 4 and struck out 11 in a
dominating overall performance. Sheehan started and picked up his 4th win of
the season, not allowing a hit until the 4th inning. He struck out 8 and
lowered his ERA to 1.36 on the year. Bentley threw 3 innings and picked up
his first save of season lowering his ERA to 1.26.
The Lions started strong offensively, scoring runs in the first 4 innings.
Sheehan got things rolling when he blooped a single to right just out of the
infielder's reach. He stole second, the first of Calvary's 9 stolen bases on
the day, advanced to third when Matt Hartman's fly ball was misjudged by the
rightfielder and scored when Russell Harmening lined a sacrifice fly to
right.
They scored on another sacrifice fly in the second when Alex Nurding lead
off the inning by drawing a walk and worked his way around the bases and
scored when Brock Bentley had the RBI fly out.
They made it 4-0 in the third by adding two more to their lead leadoff
hitter David Carpenter dinked a ball that landed in front of the
centerfielder for a hit, stole second and advanced to third and scored on
two wild pitches. They scored their second when Hartman singled through the
thirdbaseman, stole second and scored when a Caleb Whitley groundball was
misplayed by the shortstop.
They finished off their scoring by adding 3 more in the fourth. Isaac
Conover drew a lead walk and freshman Andrew Leakey entered the game to run
for Conover. Carpenter followed with a walk putting runners on first and
second. Following a popup, Hartman hit a bouncer back to the pitcher who got
the lead runner at second but the shortstop threw the ball away attempting
to complete the double play allowing Leakey to score and Hartman to advance
into scoring position. Hartman scored when Harmening lined a solid single to
left. He advanced to second on the throw home and scored the game's final
run when Whitley doubled off the base of the left field fence.
The win puts Calvary's overall record at 18-5. They return to league play on
Wednesday when they face Lutheran High School. They are currently in first
place with a 3-0 record.
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