Losing their respective first-round games Friday during the Vienna Fall Baseball Classic, Belle’s Tigers and Vienna’s Eagles played their way into the consolation championship game …
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Losing their respective first-round games Friday during the Vienna Fall Baseball Classic, Belle’s Tigers and Vienna’s Eagles played their way into the consolation championship game Saturday morning at Vienna City Park.
Falling 6-5 to Bourbon at Tiger Field, Bryce Gehlert’s Belle Tigers bounced back Friday night with a 20-0 win over Steelville in three innings.
Dakota Mason’s Vienna Eagles dropped a 5-0 decision to St. Elizabeth in their tournament opener before edging Stoutland 7-6 to set up a Maries County fall baseball showdown Saturday morning in the Vienna Fall Baseball Classic consolation championship game.
Trailing 10-2 and down to their final out, Belle tied the game with eight runs in the top of the seventh inning before putting six more on the board in the top of the eighth to secure a 16-10 extra-inning victory over the Eagles at Vienna City Park.
Troy Wulff doubled and scored giving Vienna an early 1-0 lead after one inning.
Raymond Logan and Zach Via scored in the bottom of the second inning giving Vienna a 3-0 lead after two innings.
Belle got on the board in the top of the fourth inning when Hank Stratman reached on an error and scored cutting Vienna’s lead to 3-1 before the Eagles added five runs in the bottom of the fourth to stretch their advantage to 8-1.
After a scoreless fifth inning, Carter Kinkead walked and scored for Belle in the top of the sixth inning making it 8-2 Vienna.
Wulff and Duncan Wilkinson both scored reaching on errors extending the Eagle lead to 10-2 after six innings.
Sparked by a Kinkead 3-run home run in the top of the seventh, Belle took advantage of numerous walks and hit batters to score 14 unanswered runs helping them secure a 16-10 come-from-behind victory.
Luke Rohrer, Kinkead and Stratman led the Tigers with two hits each while Wulff lead the Eagles with three hits, two runs scored and two RBIs.
Eli Hayes and Hunter Schwartze also had two hist for Vienna.
Vienna and Belle will face each other again tomorrow (Thursday) at 5 p.m., at Tiger Field.