Bulldogs Nip Saints Again

The Seward County Saints road woes continued on Wednesday as they fell 9-2 to Clarendon in a non-conference midweek game with the Bulldogs. 

Clarendon got the scoring started early, ripping a ground rule double to begin the game and plating three runs with two outs in the 1^st to go on top 3-0. 

The Saints got on the board in the 2^nd as Brandon Urquizo ripped a two out triple to get the Saints back to within one at 3-2. 

In the 3^rd the Bulldogs added to their advantage, using five hits and a pair of Seward walks to score four times to open up their lead to 7-2. 

Seward threatened to cut into the lead in the top of the 4^th, but a line drive headed for extra bases was snared with the bases loaded to end the threat and keep them down 7-2. 

Clarendon pushed their lead to 8-2 on a solo home run in the 4^th and that would be all the scoring until the 8^th when the Bulldogs scored another two out run to make it 9-2. 

The Saints mounted little as far as offense was concerned after failing to score with the bases loaded in the 4^th.  Seward was unable to put more than one runner on base for the final five innings of the game and didn't get a runner to third base as they fell 9-2. 

Clarendon outhit Seward 15-7 in the game.  Three hits for the Saints came at the top of the lineup with Reed Thompson who finished 3 for 5 while shortstop Jake Fuller was 2 for 4 in the loss.  Adam Guay took the loss on the mound for Seward, yielding 3 runs on 4 hits in the 1^st.  Four Seward pitchers threw scoreless frames in the loss including Tanner Thompson, Rowdy Sheets, Grant Glaze, and Chris Juracek. 

SEWARD COUNTY/CLARENDON BOX SCORE

The Saints fall to 25-21 on the year with the loss while Clarendon improves to 19-20. 

Next up for Seward is a return to conference action where they will battle Cloud County on Friday and Saturday at Brent Gould Field.  The Saints and T-Birds will get underway at 3:00 on Friday and 1:00 on Saturday.