Cowdin Cup Championship Game

    The following commentary was added to or changed as the game progressed.

    The Cowdin Cup game at Belton is moving along very quickly as a pitchers duel in the first six innings.
    The Rattlers finally put 2 runs on the board in the top of the 7th.
     Cade Bunnell pitched the first 5 innings of shut-out baseball.  He was relieved at the bottom of the 6th inning by Bryce Girdner at the start of the inning.   Bryce allowed one hit but no runs.  Drew Scrimsher pitched the 7th inning  allowing one hit (a home run) to bring the Athletics to within one run at 2-1. Tristin Johnson pitched the 8th inning,  allowing no hits, runs, strike-outs or walks.   Taylor Mah came in to pitch the last 2 innings.  In the bottom of the 9th,  the Athletics tied the game at 2-2 to send it to extra innings on a home run. The Rattlers scored 3 in the top of the 10 and held the Athletics scoreless to take home the Cowdin Cup trophy as the Athletics could not come up with another run.  Taylor Mah allowed only 1 hit (a home run) one ER, 1 walk and 2 strikeouts,
     The offense was led by Tim Schaareman (SS)  with 2 hits and 2 RBIs.  Jeremy Thomas (LF) and Michael Higgins (C)  each had 2 hits, 1 run, and 1 RBI.  Jacob Head (RF) also had 2 hits.

Rattlers    0   0   0   0   0   0   2   0   0   3      5   11   0
Athletics   0   0   0   0   0   0   1   0   1   0      2     4   2

The Cowdin Cup trophy is in the lower center.