Maybe I shouldn’t have written about Hyannis winning yesterday. The Harbor Hawks had the only game on the schedule last night. I should have known I’d be writing about another Hyannis win today.
The Harbor Hawks stretched their win streak to three and upped their league-best record to 8-2 with a 4-2 victory over Bourne.
The game was originally scheduled for last week, but rain forced umpires to call it. With the teams back together, Hyannis was up to its usual tricks. After falling behind 1-0 in the first inning, the Harbor Hawks scored three in the fifth and one in the eighth and allowed Bourne just one more run.
Hyannis finished with 11 hits, the third time in the last four games that they’ve gotten to double digits. This time, everybody in the lineup had at least one hit, with Eric Stamets (Evansville) going 3-for-5 with an RBI. Joey DeMichele (Arizona State) and Matthew Black (Mercer) also had an RBI each. Black hit a home run, while Stamets, Dan Gulbransen (Jacksonville) and Zach Vincej (Pepperdine) each had doubles.
As a team, Hyannis is hitting .317 in its last four games, and it now leads the league in team batting average.
The pitching hasn’t been overpowering, but as was the case last night, it’s been steady. Dean McArdle (Stanford) allowed one run in 4.2 innings, Ryan Gibson (Oklahoma) surrendered just an unearned run in 3.1 innings of relief. Jon Moscot (Pepperdine), whose first appearance this year came as a starter, closed this game and got the save.
What to Watch
Game: We’ll see what Hyannis can do in Wareham when it faces Justin Amlung (Louisville), who’s allowed just three hits in his first two starts.
Players: Elsewhere, there should be a good pitching match-up at Y-D, where Kyle Hansen (St. John’s) makes his second start for the Red Sox and goes against Chatham’s Buck Farmer (Georgia Tech). Farmer, who was 11-3 with 106 strikeouts this spring, will be making his Cape debut. Farmer and Hansen actually each struck out 106 this year.
Will, I noticed Kenny Diekroeger was not listed on the YD roster on league website. Also, on the Stanford website there is an article on where the cardinal underclassmen will be playing this summer and he is not on the list to go to the cape or anywhere? Do you have an update on him?
Steve – I haven’t heard anything. I just assumed he was still coming and I hadn’t looked at the roster. I’ll try to see what I can find out. Thanks for the heads up.