The Guthrie baseball team was trying to do something that only Deer Creek has been able to do this year. Be an Oklahoma team to defeat Class 3A’s top ranked Chandler Lions.
Corbin Crockett takes some practice throws in between innings. Guthrie is now 10-3 on the season.
The Jays were not able to match what the Antlers did with a (5-4) win and dropped their contest 12-10 on a cool, Saturday afternoon game at Squires Field.
All was not lost as the Jays picked up an 8-3 win over seventh ranked Kingfisher, another 3A team. Chandler, in game two of the 3-game series, held off the Jackets in their final at bat to get the 3-2 win.
Chandler is now 14-3 on the season and has two of three losses coming from Texas schools. The Jays and Jackets had their chances late in the game to get by the Lions, but both left the bases loaded.
In game one, Guthrie jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the second inning over the Lions. Jaden Chappell, a Cowley County signee, started the inning with a walk and cousin Landry Chappell drove him with a blast over the wall to give the Jays a 2-0 lead. The shot was Chappell’s second of the season.
Aaron Womack followed the blast with a double and later scored on a base hit from senior Dustin Bowman. However, Chandler got back two of the runs in their next at bat to pull within one of the Jays 3-2.
Guthrie matched the two runs in their half of the fourth inning and it took the first two batters of the inning to do so. Sophomore Luke Davis drew a base on ball and was followed by Jaden Chappell’s homerun to give his team a 5-2 lead. Jaden’s homerun gave him his second on the season.
Landry Chappell and Hayden Seifert look on as the Jays try and rally the bats. Guthrie is back in conference play Monday and Tuesday against El Reno.
The Lions opened the den, however, in the fourth inning by scoring six runs and taking their first lead of the day, 8-5. The Jays responded right back andregained the lead, 9-8, at the end of four.
Bowman and Corbin Crockett started the inning off with walks and then Davis, John Cotton, and Jaden Chappell collected back-to-back-to back singles.
Neither team could come across the plate in the fifth inning, but the Lions took the lead for good in the sixth with two runs to pull ahead 10-9.
In the home half of the sixth, Davis reached base by an error and with one out Jaden Chappell collected his second hit with a single, and that was followed by Hayden Seifert’s great at bat that saw him go to right field on a 3-2 pitch to load the bases. However, the Jays left the ducks on the pond and then saw Chandler capitalize on that with two more runs in the seventh to push their lead 12-9 heading into the final at bat for Guthrie.
Freshmen Bryan Dutton picked up his first hit of the day when he took an 0-2 pitch to the outfield and following him was Bowman’s walk. Guthrie then hit into a couple of fielder choice’s, in which, scored Dutton to cap the scoring.
The Jays then took the field with Kingfisher with the weather deteriorating the field conditions with winds and rain, but held on for the 8-3 win. John Cotton picked up the pitching win and Jaden Chappell smashed his third homerun of the season.
Jays return back to Squires on Monday afternoon and take on El Reno in confernece play, where the Jays stand at 5-0. Both teams return to the field, on Tuesday, in El Reno.
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