The Redmond High baseball team has been been on a roll lately, and it continued Tuesday night in a 7-2 win over 4A Kingco Conference rival Eastlake at Eastlake High School.
The Mustangs, who have won eight straight games, are in first place in the Crest Division with a 12-2 record, 15-3 overall. Redmond is two games ahead of Skyline (10-4) in the division standings.
Down 2-1 in the second inning against Eastlake, the Stangs turned up the heat, plating six runs over the next three innings to put the game away.
Redmond lefty Mac Acker pitched 4 1/3 solid innings, giving up two runs and striking out five to earn the win.
On offense, Matt Kimmel went 2 for 4 with an RBI and two runs scored, shortstop Brian Grina also notched two hits and catcher Drew Fosnes had two RBIs.
OWLS DROP ONE TO UPREP
What started out as a pitcher’s duel ended up being a slugfest as Overlake and University Prep duked it out at Dahl Field on Tuesday night in their 1A Emerald City League showdown, with the Pumas prevailing 6-5.
University Prep scored five runs in the bottom of the sixth to break a 1-1 tie, but the Owls never gave up, scrapping out four runs in the seventh to fall just short.
Overlake junior Josh Erickson, coming off of his 3-for-5 night last week against Cedar Park, had another solid performance at the plate going 2-for-4 with a double and two RBIs.
The loss dropped the Owls to 4-2 in league play and 9-3 overall.
MUSTANG FASTPITCH WINS 1-0 PITCHER’S DUEL
Redmond and Bothell were locked in a classic pitchers’ duel at Redmond High on Tuesday night, with zeros across the scoreboard after the seven innings of regulation play before the Mustangs pulled out the 1-0 win in eight innings.
Mustang staff ace Erika Hendron and Bothell phenom Ashleigh Carter were trading blow for blow in the 4A Kingco contest, mowing down the opposing lineups in order.
In the eighth, Lauren Nasbeth led off with a walk, then took second after Baily Mullins laid down a perfect sacrifice bunt and with two outs outfielder Maria Reisinger sent a fly ball to deep center field that ended up being misplayed, allowing Nasbeth to scamper home for the 1-0 victory.
Starting pitcher Erika Hendron pitched a complete game and struck out 11, scattering five hits and walking just two.
Carter, the tough-luck losing pitcher who had won six of her last seven starts, also pitched all eight innings, giving up just three hits and no earned runs while striking out seven.
The win, Redmond’s fifth straight, propelled the Mustangs to 8-2 in 4A Kingco conference play (9-3 overall) and into a four-way tie for first with Issaquah, Bothell and Woodinville.
STANGS CONQUER TOTEMS
Led by another strong medalist performance from senior Kara Zitzman, who shot a three-over 39 at Bellevue Municipal on Tuesday as the Mustangs took on the Sammamish Totems, Redmond beat Sammamish, 224-286, in 4A Kingco match.
Finishing in second was Mustang Kiera O’Hearn with a 45. Redmond’s Peyton Halstead and Sammamish’s top scorer Alayna Herring tied for third at 46.
REDMOND TENNIS FALLS
On the strength of winning four of six singles matches, the Skyline Spartans defeated Redmond in 4A Kingco tennis action on Tuesday night, 5-2.
Highlights for Redmond included Raluca Ifrim winning a tiebreak second set to beat Kelly Boudwin in the No. 2 match, 6-4, 7-6 (7-4), and Chiho Muramatsu doing the same in her No. 5 win over Kirstin Park, 6-4, 7-6 (7-5).
