Prep baseball: Ogden High mows rival Ben Lomond with fourth-inning charge
Allison saves Green; Tigers extend series streak to 11 straight wins
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- Ogden High’s Anderson Alvaredo, left, tags Ben Lomond’s Marcus Craig, right, sliding back to first base during a region baseball contest on Tuesday, March 17, 2026, at Ogden High School in Ogden.
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- Ben Lomond’s Kai Langston watches the ball sail into left field during a region baseball contest on Tuesday, March 17, 2026, at Ogden High School in Ogden.
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- Ben Lomond’s Koban Moyes delivers a pitch a region baseball contest on Tuesday, March 17, 2026, at Ogden High School in Ogden.
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- Ogden High’s Easton Green delivers a pitch to Ben Lomond during a region baseball contest on Tuesday, March 17, 2026, at Ogden High School in Ogden.
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- Ogden High’s Rodridgo Torres looks up for the call after tagging Ben Lomond’s Koban Moyes, sliding into second base, during a region baseball contest on Tuesday, March 17, 2026, at Ogden High School in Ogden.
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- Ogden High’s Denver Rhodes gets ready at third base during a region baseball contest on Tuesday, March 17, 2026, at Ogden High School in Ogden.
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- Ogden High’s Barrett Allison warms up for Ben Lomond during a region baseball contest on Tuesday, March 17, 2026, at Ogden High School in Ogden.
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- Ogden and Ben Lomond greet each other following a region baseball contest on Tuesday, March 17, 2026, at Ogden High School in Ogden.
OGDEN — In recent seasons, it’s been tough to point toward where Ben Lomond or Ogden High’s baseball programs will land.
Second-year coaches Dawson Anderson, leading the Scots, and Kyle Bubak, back with the Tigers this spring, entered the picture last year motivated to build their respective programs from the ground up with largely inexperienced rosters. But on Tuesday, Ogden levied its 11th consecutive over BL dating back to the 2021 season.
Ogden unloaded nine runs in the fourth inning in run-ruling Ben Lomond 12-2 in the first of its two regular-season meetings with the Scots, as Bubak’s crew snapped an eight-game losing streak on its home field.
Tigers junior Anderson Alvaredo singled past shortstop and Barrett Allison scored the first of those nine runs when BL senior catcher Kai Langston couldn’t make the play at the plate.
Ben Lomond, falling to 1-3 on the season with a loss in its region opener, is leaning on Langston (1-2, 2 RBI) the team’s only senior, to play catcher this season instead of third base. With 15 players on this year’s varsity squad, Langston isn’t making excuses for the Scots — and he isn’t counting them out, either.
“We’re a wild card team,” Langston said. “There’s definitely a lot of new players, a lot of new experiences, so it’s hard to cram 10 years of baseball into a couple months. But it’s all just about adjustments, and I have faith in our young guys, so they can figure it out. Baseball, you’ve just got to be fundamentally sound, so it’s just a matter of getting our reps in practice and making sure we’re effective.”
Down 2-0 through the second, BL capitalized on consecutive batters walked by senior Easton Green (2-4, RBI), and Ogden’s starter was replaced by Barrett Allison with no outs in the top of the third. Langston broke a two-RBI double off Allison to score sophomore Marcus Craig and junior Koban Moyes for the road side’s only runs of the afternoon.
For a team this young to spark this early gives Langston a bit of confidence in what the season could bring in the months ahead.
Catcher or third base? Langston isn’t about to get picky about his favorite sport.
“I’m just happy to play,” Langston said of playing catcher. “When (Anderson) told me ‘We need you to catch,’ I told him, ‘Alright, let’s do it.’ It’s been a big adjustment but it’s definitely nothing I can’t learn, and it’ll just come with time.”
Back at the plate, senior Denver Rhodes (2-3, RBI) reclaimed Ogden’s lead in the bottom side, and Moyes (3.1 IP, 8 H, 9 R, 7 ER, 1 BB, 4 K) soon saw his day on the mound end during a disastrous fourth that all but sealed the Scots’ fate.
Allison (2-3, RBI; 3.0 IP, 2 H, 3 K) picked up the save for himself and the win for Green.
“I think we’ve just got to wake up earlier,” Green said. “If the fourth inning had been our first inning, we’d of won that game a lot quicker. … I was struggling and once (Allison) came on, I knew he’d throw some strikes. I had confidence in him.”
It’s been an especially rough start for the Tigers, improving to 2-8 with a home win in Tuesday’s region opener.
For Green, one of four seniors leading Ogden’s team this spring, the incoming region schedule is a clean slate he intends on taking advantage of. That schedule includes another meeting with BL, this time across town on April 9.
“To be honest, we should beat that team again,” Green said. “We’ve gotta make sure we win again, not let back and keep moving forward.”
Neither BL or Ogden won more than five games last season, and the tough region schedule to come certainly isn’t letting those games come any easier as both squads dive in head-first with young, hungry rosters.
To merely compete, Langston said, is only the first step toward laying the foundation. He’d like to see more than two wins this time around, and especially when the Tigers step onto their diamond next month.
“Just going out there, competing (and) leaving everything out on the field — you can walk away doing that,” Langston said. “But we had them in a competitive game until the bottom of the fourth, and then it just kind of went downhill. We bounce back; we’ll play ’em again.”
Ben Lomond next hosts Grantsville at 3 p.m. Thursday; Ogden hosts Wasatch at the same time.
Connect with prep sports reporter Conner Becker via email at cbecker@standard.net and X @ctbecker.
