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Viking diamond boys sweep SB Adams

Kory Goodrich (left), a senior on the Huntington North High School varsity baseball team, takes a big swing in the second of two games against visiting South Bend Adams on Saturday, April 23. The Vikings swept the doubleheader.
Kory Goodrich (left), a senior on the Huntington North High School varsity baseball team, takes a big swing in the second of two games against visiting South Bend Adams on Saturday, April 23. The Vikings swept the doubleheader. Photo by Steve Clark.

The Huntington North High School varsity baseball team swept visiting South Bend Adams, 8-1 and 6-2, on Saturday, April 23.

In the opening game, the Vikings, 9-3, took a 1-0 led in the first inning when junior Hunter Welch singled down the left-field line, plating sophomore Ian McCutcheon, who’d also reached base with a one-bagger. Coach Brian Abbott’s squad clung to that slim lead until the fourth, when it scored three runs to give itself some breathing room.

After Thomas Parker and Logan Green got on with singles, fellow senior Alex McCutcheon plated both Parker and Green’s pinch runner, Cody Barton, with a double. Senior Kory Goodrich then hit a one-bagger to shallow left, scoring McCutcheon.

The Eagles got on the board in the top of the fifth, but the Vikings countered with two runs in the bottom of the frame and two more in the sixth to ice the win.

Ian McCutcheon finished 3 for 4 at the plate with two runs scored while Welch finished with two runs batted in. Green produced a pair of base pokes and an RBI and Parker drove in a run while also scoring two himself.

Huntington North’s Konner Morris threw six innings, yielding five hits and an earned run while fanning six to collect his first win of the season.

Cooper Lee took the loss for Adams, 4-6. The hurler gave up seven base pokes and six earned runs in five frames. He also tallied six strikeouts and issued two walks.

The second game saw the Vikings strike first with three runs in the third inning. The Eagles got on the board with a solo tally in the fourth, but the hosts scored three more times in the fifth to build a comfortable lead. Another solo tally by the visitors in the sixth brought the game’s scoring to a close.

Welch, Green, Alex McCutcheon and senior Anthony Capozza each logged an RBI for Huntington North. Welch and Ian McCutcheon produced two hits apiece to lead the team.

On the mound, Capozza earned his second win of the year. The hurler scattered four hits and two runs, only one of which was earned, across six innings. He fanned six and walked three.

Quentin Atkinson pitched the first five frames for Adams, allowing seven base pokes and six runs, four of which were earned, to suffer the defeat.