South Putnam strolls to win over Brown County

South Putnam's Gavin Eyster rolled through the Brown County lineup for most of Wednesday's WIC baseball contest, helping the host Eagles to their first conference win of the season 13-3 in five innings over the visiting Eagles.

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After winning two of its first three games, South Putnam had been on an eight-game slide heading into Wednesday’s WIC baseball outing against Brown County.

Both teams looked at the game as a chance to get off the bottom of the conference standings, an opportunity the hosts took with a 13-3 win in five innings.

Brown County struck first without a hit to start the game as Ethan Harcourt, after getting two strikeouts, surrendered four walks in-a-row, leading to Gavin Eyster to take to the mound and get a strikeout to end the threat.

Harcourt made amends in the bottom half of the inning with a double that scored Wyatt Mullin to tie the game at 1-1.

The host Eagles would take the lead in the second after Donald Scruggs doubled, stole third and scored on a wild pitch.

Mullin would tack on a run with a single later in the inning to make it 3-1 but a promising situation with the bases loaded did not yield and further runs.

Scruggs would ground out to bring a fourth run in to start the third inning while a pair of passed balls allowed two more runs to come in, as would back-to-back singles from Mullin and Eyster for a 7-1 advantage.

Ayden Batten started the fourth with a triple, later scoring on a wild pitch, while Scruggs grounded out to bring Kyle Glasson in.

Uriah Kortz scored on a wild pitch as South Putnam hit double digits on the scoreboard while Eyster drove home a pair of runs with a single to make it 12-1 after four innings.

A walk and an error on a bunt set up the visiting Eagles to finally get on the scoreboard again on an errant throw to second base while Brady Bond hit a single to left field that plated a second run to make it 12-3, forcing South Putnam back to the plate in the fifth.

It wouldn’t take long for the hosts to end proceedings as Battin reached on a dropped third strike, moved to third on a Glasson single and scored on a passed ball to reach the run rule.

Brown County 100 02 — 3 1 2

South Putnam 124 51 — 13 10 2

WP — Eyster (4 1/3 IP, H, 2 R (2 ER), 3 BB, 5 K

LP — Bond (3 1/3 IP, 9 H, 12 R (6 ER), 3 BB, 7 K

3B — Battin

2B — Scruggs, Harcourt

RBI — Brady; Eyster (3), Scruggs (2), Mullin, Harcourt