Broadway Defeats Bridgewater After Big Sixth Inning

By Nolan Potts
Broadway took a 3-2 lead entering the bottom of the sixth inning and left the inning leading 10-2. They would then tack on two more in the bottom of the eighth to put the slaughter rule into effect as the Bruins took down the Reds by a final score of 12-2.

Bridgewater would strike first as Noah Cornwell hit an RBI double in the top off the first that scored Brett Tharp, who led off the game with a triple. Broadway would respond in the bottom of the frame as Seth Moomaw hit an RBI single to drive in Brody Bower.

In the second inning, Jayden Nixon grounded into a fielder’s choice but drove in Carl Keenan.

In the fifth inning, the Reds would tie the game when Chris Huffman doubled to bring home Tharp.

Broadway would recapture the lead for good in the bottom of the fifth when Noah Leonard singled to right field to bring home Grant Landis.

The floodgates would open in the sixth inning. Seth Moomaw would reach on an error that scored Carl Keenan, who had reached on a dropped third strike. Micah Canterbury singled, and then Jayden Nixon doubled to bring home Moomaw. Two batters later, Leonard doubled and scored both Canterbury and Nixon and made the score 7-2. After a strikeout to the next hitter, Conner Michael singled to extend the inning, and then Brody Bower tripled to center field and scored Leonard and Tharp. Keenan, in his second at-bat of the inning, would double and bring home Bower and make the score 10-2.

In the bottom of the eighth, Keenan would hit an RBI single to make it 11-2, and then Moomaw would follow with the “walk-off” RBI single to finish the ballgame.

For the Bruins, Bower and Keenan each had three hits and two RBI, while Moomaw, Leonard, and Michael all had two hits. Leonard had three RBIs while Moomaw and Nixon each had two. All nine Broadway starters had at least one hit as the team racked up 16 in the game.

Kody Dobyns went the first five innings for Broadway to earn the win after allowing two runs on four hits while striking out seven. Shea Kushner threw the next two innings, allowing no runs and no hits and striking out four. Ethan Burgreen pitched a scoreless eighth inning,

Bridgewater had seven hits, led by Malachi Simmons’ two, while also getting one each from Tharp, Huffman, Cornwell, Corbin Lucas, and Caden Swartley.

Despite the win, Broadway (11-13) will be the seven seed as Montezuma won on this night as well and owns the tiebreaker over the Bruins and will play Grottoes in the first round.

Bridgewater (19-5) misses out on a twenty-win regular season, but they still won the regular season by four games and will be the number one seed and host Elkton in the first round.

 

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