Chargers are SCC Champions!
Charger baseball Team Sweeps Albia
The Chariton High School baseball team clinched the South Central Conference title by winning an SCC doubelheader against Albia July 8th at the Monroe County Sports Complex. The #7 Chargers beat the Blue Demons, 6-1 and 7-3, which gave them a final SCC mark of 16-4, one game ahead of Eddyville-Blakesburg.-Fremont. |
| Austin Peterson slides safely into home plate against Albia July 8th. The Chargers claimed the 2013 South Central Conference title outright, one game ahead of EBF |
Charlie Palmer pitched the opening game and struck out the first six Albia batters. He ended up striking out nine batters in six innings on the mound.
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| Charlie Palmer pitches in the first game of the doubleheader against Albia at Albia July 8th. Palmer struck out nine batters in the opener (Bill Howes photos) |
Chariton went up 2-0 in the second inning on a two-out two RBI single by Austin Ritenour. Albia never made a significant scoring threat in the middle innings while Chariton added two runs in the fourth and two more in the fifth to take a commanding 6-0 lead. Chariton had only two hits while scoring the additional runs and they scored three runs on wild pitches. Token Hall's double scored the other. Ben Kinser doubled in the sixth and scored on a sacrifice fly by Ritenour to give the Chargers a 7-0 lead. Albia scored their only run in the sixth on back-to-back two-out hits by Austin Luse and Griffin Osing to make it a 7-1 game.
Chariton stranded two runners in the seventh. But it didn't matter as Alex Wright came on in relief for Chariton and retired the Albia batters in order to give the Chargers the win.
In six innings, Palmer gave up one earned run on five hits while striking out nine batters. Wright pitched one inning and gave up no runs and had one strikeout. Wright and Ritenour were the catchers in the first game.
Chariton 7 Albia 3
In the second game, Albia took a 2-0 lead with two runs in the bottom of the first. Albia loaded the bases in the third but they weren't able to score off pitcher Jordan Baughman and the Charger defense. The top of the fourth inning was key as Chariton scored six runs to take a 6-2 lead. The Chargers smacked four hits and Albia committed three errors, which caused three of Chariton's six runs in the inning to be unearned. Peterson and Baughman opened the Chariton fourth with back-to-back singles for their second hits of the game. Wright and Braida each had RBIs and two Albia errors and a wild pitch allowed the other runs to score. Chariton also used aggressive base running in the inning to its advantage.
Albia scored once in the fifth to cut the lead to 7-3. Baughman retired the Albia batters in order in the sixth and seventh inning to give Chariton the game two win. The Chargers added one more run in the seventh as Peterson and Baughman each had their third hit of the game and Wright had an RBI. Baughman got the win on the mound and in seven innings he gave up three runs, two earned, on eight hits while striking out seven and walking three. Wright was the catcher in the second game.
From the Chariton Herald-Patriot dated July 11, 2013 by Bill Howes
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