Four Dons have two hits each

By Paul Lecker

Sports Reporter

ADAMS — Adams-Friendship scored eight times in its last three at-bats to come back and beat Columbus Catholic 12-8 in a nonconference baseball game Thursday.

The Dons led 8-4 after 3 ½ innings. Then Adams-Friendship came back to tie the game with four in the fourth and pulled ahead with a run in the fifth and three more in the sixth.

Tyler Fuerlinger, Charles Payant, Matthias Gouin, and Ryan Dieringer each had two hits for Columbus Catholic (6-10).

Columbus finishes its regular season Monday with a Cloverbelt East doubleheader at Greenwood.

(Hub City Times Sports Reporter Paul Lecker is also the publisher of MarshfieldAreaSports.com.)

Green Devils 12, Dons 8

Columbus Catholic 103 400 0 – 8 11 3

Adams-Friendship 301 413 x – 12 10 3

WP: Cole Lamont. LP: Charles Payant.

SO: Billy Young (3 inn.) 2, Payant (1 2/3 inn.) 2, Bailey Keffer (1 1/3 inn.) 1; Trevor Tuttle (3 inn.) 1, Lamont (3 inn.) 3, Braedyn Quinnell (1 inn.) 1. BB: Young 4, Payant 6, Keffer 1; Tuttle 0, Lamont 4, Quinnell 0.

Top hitters: CC, Tyler Fuerlinger 2×4, 2B; Payant 2×4; Matthias Gouin 2×3; Ryan Dieringer 2×4. AF, Seth Sparby 3×5, 2B; Vince Culp 2×4, 2B; Chris Deja 2B.

Records: Columbus Catholic 6-10; Adams-Friendship 7-16.