CPHS Baseball: Sandites fall to Shawnee, bounce back 12-4 against Edison

The Charles Page High School varsity baseball team (2-2) hit a slight setback Friday night in a 9-1 home loss to Shawnee (3-0), but bounced back Saturday afternoon in Tulsa with a 12-4 rout of Edison Preparatory School (0-3). Both game were non-district.

The eight-run loss to Shawnee was actually the closest game anyone has played yet against the Wolves, who have yet to allow two runs in a game. Brycen Peterman scored the Sandites’ lone run in the bottom of the first on a ground out from Ethan Sartin.

Brock Swanson (0-1) got the start and the loss on the mound in his pitching debut, and tossed eight hits, three strikeouts, and three walks in 4.2 innings. Shawnee scored one run in the first and three in the second before Kaden Young made his pitching debut in relief. The Wolves added two more runs in the bottom of the fifth and three in the sixth for the run-rule win. Young tossed three hits, two strikeouts, and one walk in 1.1 innings.

Offensively the Sandites had their worst batting performance of the short season thus far, with four hits for a .174 average. They received only two walks and left seven runners stranded.

Saturday was a far different story as they took an 8-0 lead early on and never trailed, going .391 at the plate with nine hits, fifteen walks, and their first error-free game of the year.

Cody Pulscher scored the first run on a passed ball in the bottom of the second, then Ty Pennington scored on a ground ball form Jacob Shields.

Four straight walks in the third gave Young a free run, then Shields hit a 2RBI single to score Swanson and Pennington to make it 5-0. Gabe Glenn and Peterman hit RBI singles to score Keaton Campbell and Shields, then Glenn tagged up to score on a fly out from Sartin.

The Eagles scored four runs on two walks and three singles in the fourth but that would be their only successful inning. They also loaded the bases in the fifth, but Kaegan Murray caught a fly out to save the inning, and Peterman pitched a strikeout to strand two in the sixth.

Pennington scored his third run of the game on a ground out from Hayden Blair in the fifth. Campbell doubled in the sixth and tagged up to score, then Blair doubled and came in on a double from Peterman. Peterman scored on a single from Murray to end the game by run-rule.

Keifer Massey (0-0, 1-0) got the start on the mound but only pitched two innings and it was Jasper Adams (1-0) who came in next and got the win. Massey threw two strikeouts, two walks, and no hits in his two innings. Adams threw six his, one strikeout, and four walks in the middle three, then Peterman closed out the final inning with a two-hit, two-strikeout performance.

Sandite baseball will return to action Monday at 6:00 p.m. with a district home game against Putnam City West (2-1, 2-0).