LAYTON — Despite scoring 27 runs in a pair of wins on Wednesday in non-league baseball action, Clearfield High baseball coach Justin Abbott focused on the Falcons’ pitching performance.
“Our pitchers went after people, and we had good defense behind them,” Abbott said. “Our goal is to take it one pitch, one inning, one game at a time.”
Northridge High hosted Bonneville and Clearfield for a tripleheader on Wednesday. Clearfield outslugged Bonneville 17-10 in the opener behind Logan Neerings’ pitching and hitting performance, then topped Northridge 10-0 in the finale behind Cam Facer’s complete-game four-hitter.
In between, host Northridge dropped a 15-1 battle to the Lakers.
“I tell the guys we can always control two things — attitude and effort,” Abbott said after the Falcons upped their overall record to 5-7. “The staff has put them in a position to win, and right now they are giving 110 percent. We want to be successful.”
In the opener, Neerings rapped a triple and double as Clearfield scored seven in the first inning, then after Bonneville chipped away at the lead, the Falcons scored eight in the fourth to put the game away. Facer, Isaiah Lozano and Dylan Moore added doubles for Clearfield.
Jack Hall and Kacey Kundick homered for the Lakers, who committed six errors.
Against Northridge, Facer struck out seven and earned the shutout with an efficient 73-pitch effort.
Connor Parry doubled and the Falcons made good decisions on the basepaths, Abbott said.
• BONNEVILLE 15, NORTHRIDGE 1: At Layton, Connor Baird and Tyler Mata each homered for the Lakers, while Mata earned the victory on the mound. The Lakers score eight in the top of seventh to seal the win.
Kyle Eichmeier had a double for the Knights.
• OGDEN 7, NORTH SUMMIT 3: At Coalville, the Tigers used the long ball to post the non-league win.
J.J. Stein and Brian Saunders each hit a pair of home runs for Ogden. Saunders also picked up the win on the mound. Alex Halverson and Joe Bischoff added doubles.
• SKY VIEW 5, MORGAN 4: At Smithfield, the Trojans comeback came up a run short.
Braden Brown, Landon Carter, Colby Skinner and Lantzen Toomer each had doubles for Morgan.
• FREMONT 12, ROY 2 (FIVE INNINGS): At Plain City, a good first at-bat helped the Silver Wolves pick up the win.
Jake Hobbs tossed a four-hitter for Fremont. Braden Strattford tripled and Preston Akre doubled as part of a 12-hit attack.
Garrett Bowman, who took the loss, doubles as did Grady Hansen for the Royals.
Region 11
• BEAR RIVER 17, BEN LOMOND 0: At Ogden, the Bears outhit the Scots 12-2 and earned an easy win.
Kellen Hess cracked a home run, while Jordan Rose and Tyler Rasmussen had doubles.
Brock Hill pitched a two-hitter for Bear River.
Soccer
2-A Central
• ST. JOSEPH 4, MAESER PREP 0: At Lindon, the Jayhawks found themselves in a disjointed, physical game on an odd-shaped field, but scored three goals in the final 15 minutes to finish off the shutout win.
Adam Brodstein recoreded a hat trick, and Keyanu Tate added a goal.
Kenin Richards and Ty Evans had solid games for the Jayhawks, now 5-0-0 in league play.
Star David Donlevy suffered a collision in the contest, but was evaluated and did not return to the game. The Jayhawks have two weeks until their next game, a good time to heal and work on little things, coach Derek Tate said.
Coaches reminder
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