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Gladstone, Bark River-Harris Split Doubleheader
 Click the thumbnails to see photos taken by Julie Martin, plus videos and listen to interviews with Johnnie Robinette, Carter Vanbroklen and Gladstone Manager Lucas Lacosse. BARK RIVER---The Bark River-Harris Broncos baseball team topped the Gladstone Braves in the first game of a doubleheader, 9-1, on Tuesday, before the Braves got revenge in the nightcap. 14-0. The games were played in 37 degree weather, and both managers played all of their players.  But in the first inning, Tyler Darmogray fouled off a squeeze attempt and eventually hit a line shot that BR-H pitcher Nick Javurek caught for a 1-5 double play. In the second inning, John Soderrman walked and Noah Peterson singled, but the next three guys popped up. The Broncos went to work against Darmogray, the Braves pitcher. They scored two runs in the first inning as Javurek, Johnnie Robinette, and Max Hall all doubled, making it an early 2-0 lead. Then in the third inning, Robinette doubled again and Tyler Racicot walked, and it looked like the Braves would get out of the inning when Mason Bower hit a slow roller to short. The umpire ruled that Gladstone first baseman Aedan Creten pulled his foot, so instead of an inning-ending out, a run scored. Then Hall hit a sacrafice fly to make it 4-0. The young Gladstone defense fell apart in the fourth inning as two errors and a walk led to three Broncos runs. Then BR-H scored two more in the fifth inning as Aidan Johnson cashed in on a pair of walks when he smoked a two-run double down the left field line.  Javurek pitched the first three innings for the win and Hall threw the final three innings. Darmogray took the loss, throwing three innings, with Austin Bagwell throwing the final three. Together, the Braves pitchers allowed only three earned runs out of the nine. In the second game, things were completely different, as the Braves went with a more veteran lineup. Gladstone went to "small ball" in the top of the second inning with the Braves pulling off four successful bunts in the inning. The last one, by senior Ryan Polley, drove in two runs as both Owen Tronbley and Darmogray ran the bases aggressively. Trombley also contributed defensively when he made a diving catch in center field, landing hard on his chest. He left the game after the second inning. In the third inning, Dylan Pepin led off with a double and scored on a hit by Mason LaChance. And then in the fourth inning, Vanbrocklin helped his own cause with a two-run double after an error and hit battsmen put two men aboard. The 6-0 lead for Gladstone exlpoded to 14-0 with an eight-run sixth inning as the Broncos cleared the bench and brought Carter Zawacki and Issac Ives in to pitch. VanBrocklin pitched all six innings for a four-hit shutout, his first varsity pitching win. Racicot took the loss on the mound for the Broncos. BR-H is now 7-3 on the season while Gladstone sits at 3-3.  |
