Hartville baseball defeats Norwood and Sparta

The Hartville Eagles’ baseball team had lost four of their previous five games before a pair of contests last week with two Summit Conference foes.
Fortunately, Hartville pulled out a pair of quality wins to move their record to 7-10 this fall.
The Eagles traveled to Norwood on Sep. 28 and left wit ha 6-5, extra-inning win.
Gabe Lanham scored on an error in the top of the eighth inning.
Pitcher Maddox Jones then struck out the final two Pirates’ batters in the bottom of the eighth inning to seal the win.
Hunter Walker had a big game with three RBIs and one run scored while Lanham added two RBIs and one run scored.
Trey Smith scored two times.
Cole Sinning tossed five and a third innings and gave up three earned runs on five hits with nine strikeouts and four walks.
Jones tossed two and two-thirds innings for Hartville and gave up two earned runs on four hits with two strikeouts and two walks.
Taylor Garner led the Pirates’ offense with two RBIs while both Jase Bradshaw and Trent Adkins had one RBI.
Laken Coatney tossed six innings and gave up five earned runs on six hits with 12 strikeouts and four walks.
The Pirates’ Bryer Harrison tossed two innings and allowed no earned runs on one hit with one strikeout and one walk.
Hartville ended the week by hosting Sparta and picking up a 7-5 victory.
Smith had two RBIs; TJ Kline had one RBI and one run scored; both Brodyn Hulsey and Walker had one RBI; while Jones had one RBI and scored three times.
Heston Lowery tossed four innings on the mound and gave up one earned run on three hits with three strikeouts and thre walks.
Hulsey tossed three innings and gave up three earned runs on three hits with four strikeouts and two walks.