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Tough 2nd Inning Dooms Eastview Baseball Against Burnsville
Eastview gave up six runs in the second, dropping the game 8-4 to No. 3 Burnsville in a South Suburban Conference baseball showdown Thursday.
Take away a disastrous second inning and Eastview baseball outplayed third-ranked Burnsville in Thursday's battle of South Suburban Conference heavyweights at .
Eastview pitched itself into a quick, deep hole the team couldn’t get out of, losing 8-4. Junior starting pitcher Adam Moorse had a rare struggle with control in the second inning.
Burnsville strung together its 6-0 start on a hit, two hit-batters, a wild pitch, two bases-loaded walks and a two-run single up the middle by Derek Johnson.
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“That was probably a lot of the ballgame right there,” said Eastview head coach Tom Strey. “Especially against a team like Burnsville. They’re a quality team. They’re going to throw quality pitchers at us; they’re not going to make mistakes in the field. And when we got in that big a hole it was tough to crawl out of. But what I liked was that our kids battled the whole way.”
Eastview scored two in the third on a two-run double by Matt Larson to cut Burnsville lead to 6-2. The teams matched hits and runs the rest of the way.
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“When they scored six we came back with two and had a chance to get two more if we would have gotten a hit,” said Strey. “And then they scored a couple of other times and every time they scored, we answered. So those are good signs.”
Burnsville touched three Eastview pitchers for eight hits.
Tenth-ranked Eastview fell back in the standings at 11-3 in conference and 12-5 on the season. Burnsville improved to 12-2 in the conference and 14-3 overall with the win.
“It was a very nice game,” said Burnsville head coach Mick Scholl. “They gave us some runs today early and you know what, we capitalized on their mistakes.”
Burnsville's win evened the season series at 1-1; Eastview took a 5-4 decision on April 18. There also is a chance these teams will meet again in the section 3AAA play.
“We’ve always been battling with them ever since back when we were little kids and stuff,” Burnsville senior pitcher Quinn Johnson. “They've always been the team we’ve played hard against.”
Eastview is scheduled to play Bloomington Kennedy at 4:15 p.m. Monday at Haddox Field.
