FREMONT – The Little Giant baseball team didn’t get much offense in five of its seven innings Wednesday against Oak Harbor.
Fortunately for the Little Giants, the offense came up big in the other two.
Ross scored eight runs in the bottom of the second inning and six more in the sixth to put the game away for a 14-8 victory in a game that was closer than the final score indicated.
With the bases loaded in the second inning, Noah Hotz hit a three-RBI double. Karson Wojdyla followed later in the inning with a two-RBI base hit.
Ross looked as though it was set to cruise to the win, but Oak Harbor chipped away at the deficit, including a four-run fourth. The Rockets climbed back to within two, 8-6, midway through the sixth inning.
The Little Giants loaded the bases in the sixth, scoring two runs with walks before Caleb Bennison, like Hotz in the second inning, belted a shot to deep centerfield for a three-run double. Hotz followed two batters later and hit his second RBI-double of the game, scoring Bennison for a 14-6 lead.
Ross finished with 11 hits, but all but two of those hits came in the Little Giants’ two big innings. Hotz, Bennison, Cole Druckenmiller and Garrett Schneider each totaled two hits with Bennison and Hotz each driving in four RBIs.
The Little Giants improve to 6-11 overall. Ross travels to Marion Harding Thursday.
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