Baseball Concludes Season with Loss to Doane
(Crete, NE) – #8-seed Hastings faced #1-seed Doane for the third time in the GPAC tournament and seventh time in the last two weeks, this time for a chance to play in Monday’s GPAC Tournament Final. Doane never trailed in the game, winning 9-2.
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(Crete, NE) – #8-seed Hastings faced #1-seed Doane for the third time in the GPAC tournament and seventh time in the last two weeks, this time for a chance to play in Monday's GPAC Tournament Final. Doane never trailed in the game, winning 9-2.
The first two Doane batters in the second inning walked, and after moving up 90 feet on a sac bunt, they both scored on an RBI-single up the middle to take a 2-0 lead over the Broncos.
Doane carried their momentum into the third inning, adding three more runs to their lead. With two on and nobody out, they scored on a wild pitch and a two-run home run, making it 5-0.
In the bottom of the fourth, junior Samuele Bruno hit a double to left with one out. Sophomore Peighton Vargas drove him in with an RBI-single to right. Hasting added another run in the fifth, as senior Chris Faherty was hit by a pitch to open the inning, and later scored on a two-out infield single by senior Ben Richter to make it 5-2.
Doane went back up five at 7-2 in the seventh inning with a leadoff homer and a two-out RBI-single. Hastings loaded the bases with two outs in the seventh with a single, a walk, and a hit-batter, but the Tigers escaped the jam with a flyout to end the Bronco opportunity without a run scoring. Doane added two more runs in the ninth to win, 9-2.
Hastings ends the season with a 24-26 record overall, 10-18 in conference, and went further in the GPAC Tournament since 2015.
