PEKIN —
The Pekin Panthers had just enough offense and played errorless defense to back a strong complete game pitching performance by Tater Clubb.
Clubb allowed only four hits and recorded 15 strikeouts in a 5-0 Class 1A, District 9 second-round baseball win over Keota Tuesday.
The 18-15 Panthers advance to play Sigourney Thursday night at Pekin. Sigourney moved into the game with a 16-4 defeat of Tri-County.
It doesn’t happen often, but sometimes a team can get by on just a few hits. Teams that do that need to get big hits, timely hits, or be able to manufacture runs. The Panthers scored their five runs with only five hits (two infield hits), two extra base hits (one a big one).
“It was a little surprising to not get much offense here at home. We’ve been hitting pretty good lately,” said Pekin coach Jeff Eeling. “Sieren has been tough against us in the past though.”
The big hit came early, as Clubb blasted a two-run homer to center in the top of the first.
“I actually hit righties better,” said Clubb. “It was a pitch I was looking for and I was ready.”
After giving up a lead-off single to Keota’s Colton Greiner, Clubb continued his hot start by striking out the next three Eagle hitters.
Pekin went up 3-0 in the second as Colton Swanson delivered an RBI double.
Pekin would be blanked by Keota reliever Casey Sieren in the third, fourth, and fifth, but over the middle four innings Clubb would add eight more strikeouts, including striking out the side again in the fourth.
“I’m not really a strikeout pitcher,” said Clubb. “I threw a lot of breaking balls tonight but it was working and I could spot it — so I thought I shoud keep throwing it.”
Clubb’s breaking ball was so sharp, seven of his strikeouts were called third strikes.
“I actually thought that maybe we’d take him out at some point, but he was going good so we let him finish,” said Eeling.
Pekin used Thomas Slaney’s infield hit and a Keota error to set up Graham Wittrock’s RBI ground out in the sixth for a 4-0 lead. Pekin added a run in the seventh for the final 5-0 margin. Josh Sterling beat out an infield hit, Clubb walked and Bailey Donovan singled to load the bases. The final Panther run scored on Derek Morales’ sacrifice fly.
Clubb added strikeouts 14 and 15 in the seventh as the Panthers closed out the win.
Pekin 5, Keota 0
Pek 210 001 1 — 5 5 0
Keo 000 000 0 — 0 4 3
Pekin battery — Clubb (W) (7IP, 4H, 0R, 0ER, 15K, 3BB), Tyson Lamb catching.
2B — Swanson.
HR — Clubb.
Hits — Sterling 1-for-3, Clubb 1-for-2, Donovan 1-for-3, Slaney 1-for-3, Swanson 1-for-2.
RBI — Clubb 2, Morales, Wittrock, Swanson. Runs — Nazareth Rambo, Sterling, Clubb, Colby Allsup 2.
Keota battery — Brian Berg (LP) (1 1/3 IP, 2H, 3R, 3ER, 1K, 3BB), Sieren (5 2/3 IP, 3H, 2R, 1ER, 7K, 5BB), Greiner catching.
Hits — Greiner 1-for-2, Sieren 2-for-3, Matt Slaughter 1-for-3.
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