BROTHER MARTIN HANDS CUB BASEBALL FIRST LOSS AT LOUISIANA TOURNAMENT

The Brenham Cub Baseball Team suffered their first loss of the season 5-3 to the Brother Martin Crusders last (Thursday) night at the Barbe-Sulphur Tournament in Louisiana.

The game was scoreless until the bottom of the third inning when the Cubs jumped out to the early lead with a pair of runs. Ethan Aschenbeck reached on a two-out single, and Dalton Hart brought him home with an RBI double. Drake Bentke followed with an RBI double of his own, which scored Hart, and made it 2-0 Brenham.

The Crusaders cut the lead in half with a run in the fourth inning, and then they took the lead with four runs in the top of the fifth inning, which made it 5-2 Brother Martin.

The Cubs got one of the runs back in the bottom of the fifth inning. Brody Tucker singled, and Nate Rau came on as a courtesy runner. Rau later advanced to second on an error, stole third, and scored on an RBI single by Hart. That trimmed the lead to 5-3 Crusaders.

Dawson Keim took the loss surrendering five runs in four and 1/3 innings pitched. Sterling Scheffer pitched two scoreless innings of relief.

Next up, Brenham will battle Dutchtown this (Friday) afternoon, followed by Concordia at 7pm.

HITTING

Ethan Aschenbeck 2-2 single, double, walk, run

Dalton Hart 2-3 single, double, walk, run, two RBIs

Drake Bentke 1-3 double, RBI

Brody Tucker 2-3 single, double

PITCHING

LP Dawson Keim 4 1/3 IP, 5 H, 5 R, 4 ER, 2 BB, 2 K's

Sterling Scheffer 2 2/3 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 3 BB, 7 K's