OAKES, N.D. (NewsDakota.com) – Oakes Baseball has played two games this year now. Both games finished as one-run victories for Oakes, but it took extra innings against FHL Thursday night.

For the first time this season, Oakes trailed. Oakes starter Jaidy Gebhardt retired the first two batters of the game via the strikeout, but FHL rallied with two outs getting back-to-back singles. Starting pitcher Hayden Boll delivered the RBI single to take the lead.

Oakes’ lineup didn’t record a hit until the third batter in the 3rd inning and didn’t score until the 4th inning. Left fielder Steele Hansen lead the 4th off with a booming double to left-center and two batters later Connor Schall brought Hansen home with a run scoring single. Schall has two of the three Oakes RBI this season.

Both starters danced around traffic on the base paths all night long but each allowed just one run. In fact, there was only one 1-2-3 inning combined. Both Gebhardt and Boll were pulled in the 7th inning after each of them allowed the lead off guy on.

The 7th inning provided a decent scoring chance for both teams. FHL’s Bill Hermes was hit by a pitch, bunted to 2nd, but Oakes reliever Garret Meehl stymied the rally. In the bottom half, Oakes also put the lead off guy on, but their threat was thwarted by FHL reliever Broden Frolek.

Extras were needed.

Oakes’ 8th inning was a roller coaster. Gebhardt lined a lead off single to right field, but his courtesy runner Trevor Meyer was thrown out trying to take 2nd base. Schall grounded out and in the blink of an eye there were two outs in the inning. But Frolek lost his command. He hit David Schmitz with two strikes and then hit catcher Joey Heim. The back-to-back hit batters brought Coy Awender to the plate and Awender ended the game with his first hit of the season.

Oakes defeated FHL 2-1 to improve to 2-0 on the season.

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