It\u2019s hard to lose a baseball game when you hit the ball 17 times.<\/p>\n
The Juneau-Douglas Crimson Bears showed that in a 20-16 win over the Colony Knights in the consolation semi-finals of the ASAA\/First National Bank Alaska State Baseball Championships.<\/p>\n
After scrounging together just three runs on Thursday, JDHS\u2019 bats returned to full health on Friday at Mulcahy Stadium in Anchorage.<\/p>\n
JDHS scored 13 runs in the first two innings and never trailed after that.<\/p>\n
\u201cBoth teams did a good job of getting the pitch that they liked,\u201d JDHS coach Chad Bentz said. \u201cIt wasn\u2019t the prettiest game but I\u2019m glad that the guys battled and came out on top.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Knights made a late-game push to take the lead in the sixth inning by scoring six runs. According to Bentz, the Crimson Bears repeatedly walked Knights\u2019 batters to score runs.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen pitchers walk people it\u2019s impossible to defend that and it\u2019s just a bummer because they\u2019re trying their hardest and sometimes they can\u2019t find the strike zone.\u201d<\/p>\n
[Wolverines’ rallies doom Crimson Bears<\/a>]<\/p>\n Throughout the course of the game, several newer faces stepped up for JDHS, including sophomore Kona Ogoy who had two hits.<\/p>\n The Crimson Bears have been without the pitching services of senior Bryce Swofford all season due to injury. Still, Swofford made the trip and has been helping out with his hitting and dugout presence.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s a little a difficult knowing that I can\u2019t go out there and shut a game down or be a bigger part of the game,\u201d Swofford said. \u201cBut I\u2019m glad I can contribute where I can.\u201d<\/p>\n Junior Donavin McCurley said playing earlier in the day made it easier to hit.<\/p>\n \u201cYesterday it was kind of bright, the sun was right over the field, and today was a little slower pitching so we had time to see it,\u201d McCurley said.<\/p>\n JDHS plays Service at 10 a.m. Saturday at Mulcahy Stadium for fourth place.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u2022 Contact sports reporter Nolin Ainsworth at 523-2272 or nolin.ainsworth@juneauempire.com.<\/b><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It\u2019s hard to lose a baseball game when you hit the ball 17 times. The Juneau-Douglas Crimson Bears showed that in a 20-16 win over the Colony Knights in the consolation semi-finals of the ASAA\/First National Bank Alaska State Baseball Championships. After scrounging together just three runs on Thursday, JDHS\u2019 bats returned to full health<\/a> […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":425,"featured_media":17238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":6,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-17237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/425"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17237"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=17237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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