LV Ponies have Winning Weekend

The Logan View Pony baseball team continued their excellent season with four wins over the weekend. They competed in the Wayne tourney and came away with three wins. On Friday night, they once again locked horns with Pender and won 8-3. The Ponies jumped out to a 6-0 lead after two innings and coasted from there. Brock Schole was effective on the mound, allowing three runs on three hits with eight strikeouts. Oliver Stanton pitched two scoreless innings, striking out three Pender batters. Cooper Camenzind kickstarted the offense with three hits, three runs scored and two RBI’s. Colton Stockamp contributed two singles, with Schole and Will Foust also getting hits. In a Saturday afternoon game, the Ponies faced North Bend for a third time this season and recorded another win 8-6. North Bend held a 5-2 lead in the 4th inning, before the Ponies got the bats going and scored six runs to grab the lead. Run scoring hits by Reese Pekarek, Foust and Stanton were the catalyst to the big inning. Kohen Osborn had one RBI in the game. Cooper Ruwe and Graidon Drey battled control issues on the mound, but only allowed three hits and struck out 11 North Bend hitters. In their second game on Saturday, the Ponies won an exciting game over Crofton 8-7. LV scored three runs in the 3rd inning to take the early lead, only to see Crofton score six runs in the 5th. LV tied it up in the bottom of the inning and took a 7-6 lead with one run in the 6th. Crofton tied it up in the 7th inning, before a Jacob Peters single scored Stockamp with the winning run. The Ponies pounded out 14 hits in the game, with Stockamp, Schole, Drey, Stanton, Ruwe and Brig Giesselman all getting two hits in the contest. Others with hits were Peters and Pekarek. Stockamp pitched five innings with nine strikeouts. Schole picked up the win with two innings of relief.

In their last game of the weekend, the Ponies won a league game against Tekamah-Herman Gold by the run rule 13-3. The Ponies erupted for eight runs in the second inning to put the game away. Peters, Drey and Schole all hit doubles with Giesselman, Camenzind and Stockamp getting singles. Stanton, Camenzind, Peters and Drey all took a turn on the mound, combining to allow three hits. Earlier in the week, the Ponies dropped a game to league leading Wayne by a

score of 12-4. Stockamp had three hits, including a double. Stanton also rapped a double, Camenzind had two hits and Peters had a single.