The Britton U12 baseball team showed some firepower in its season-opening doubleheader sweep of Webster last week Wednesday, scoring 30 runs in 15-12, 15-6 victories.
The local nine played the Aberdeen Smitties U11 squad last night Tuesday, host Sisseton on Thursday, play at Groton on Saturday, and host Groton on Tuesday.
In game one Britton scored seven runs in the third inning to break open a 4-1 ballgame and led 15-3 after four frames before having to weather a nine-run Webster rally in the fifth. Max Suther led the local attack with a triple and two singles and collected seven RBI’s. Liam Peters added a pair of singles, and Bowen Micko and Joseph O’Brien had base hits. Micko picked up the pitching win and fanned seven batters in three innings.
Britton used some big innings to take the nightcap, pushing across four tallies in both the first and third frames to lead 8-2 and then put the game with a seven-run explosion in the fourth. Peters doubled and singled, and Brady Heitkamp, O’Brien, and Maverick Strong each added safeties. Peters earned the pitching win, fanning five batters in two innings.
Webster 010 29 – 12 2 2 Britton 227 4x - 15 7 3 Bowen Micko, Isaac Richter (4), Kylan Sasker (5), Henry Kilker (5) Webster 002 04 – 6 1 2 Britton 404 7x – 15 5 1 Liam Peters, Brady Heitkamp (3), Max Suther (5)
