Top-ranked Moberly jumped on 9th ranked Benton for four first inning runs and advanced to the semifinal of the WOW Wood Bat Tournament with a 12-2, five-inning victory in St. Joseph on Friday. Cardinals starter Zaidyn Woodward plunked both Kyler Fanning and Ashton Hunt with pitches to start the game. Jackson Engel made him pay….
Brad Boyer with the call on nemopressbox.com. After back-to-back walks and a strikeout, Spartan starting pitcher Cade Bohm helped himself….
Moberly scored three in the second and two in the third to get away from last year’s Class 4 runner-up with a 9-0 start. Engel was named our Freeman Financial and Insurance Player of the Game. The senior shortstop went 2-2 and produced an RBI in all four of his plate appearances. Fanning scored four runs, Nolan Samuel and Carson Fletcher both produced a pair of RBI. Bohm took the team lead in victories improving to 4-0. He gave up two runs on three hits, with five strikeouts and one walk in five innings.
The Spartans won their seventh straight game and improve to 15-2. Benton drops to 9-8. Moberly will play Owensville Saturday morning in the semis. You can hear the game on nemopressbox.com starting at 10:50. Listen to any of our past broadcasts by going to the Game Archive page.
postgame with Brandon Boyer:
