YATES CENTER — Marmaton Valley High’s baseball team saw its season come to a disappointing end Wednesday.
The Wildcats committed nine errors, which led to 10 unearned runs for Arma’s Northeast High.
The Vikings, conversely, limited Marmaton Valley to one hit, Chris Bowman’s single, in a 13-1 win.
The loss, in the Class 2-1A regional semifinals, ends Marmaton Valley’s season at 6-5.
“It looked like we hadn’t played a game in a couple weeks,” Wildcat coach Derek Scharff said. “We committed several errors on routine plays we should have made.”
Starting pitcher Jimmy Frye allowed six hits and a walk in five innings of work. He struck out three.
“Jimmy pitched well, and they didn’t hit the ball very well,” Scharff said. “We just over-threw first a lot or fumbled the ball around.”
The Wildcats were able to work Northeast’s pitcher for four walks, but could never come up with the hits to drive in those runners, Scharff said.
“We just played a bad game overall,” he said. “I wish we had more time to practice and got some more games in, because I think we had a good group of guys this year.”
Northeast’s postseason run, meanwhile, ended one game later. Top seed St. Paul won the regional title game 17-2 to earn a state playoff berth.
Wildcats’ run ends
