ADNA — Nearly ten months after ending their 2024 campaign with two straight losses and taking fourth at the state tournament, the Adna baseball team was finally able to get back in the win column with a 16-0 three-inning win over Morton-White Pass.
“It was great,” Adna coach Jake Overbay said. “After ending on a sour note, it was good to see the returners come get back into it and have a lot of fun,” Overbay said.
Brody Richards worked around a two-out walk to post a zero on the bump in the top of the first, and the Pirates quickly blew the game open with a 16-spot in the bottom half.
Danner Hoinowski opened the scoring with an RBI double, and Owen Fagerness brought home two more with a single a couple of batters later. Another RBI knock from Mat Roundtree and a pair of RBI groundouts made it 6-0 with two down.
The Timberwolves struggled to get out of the inning, though, as the next 12 Pirates reached base. Ten of them came around to score, and by the time Fagerness flew out to end the inning, it was 16-0.
MWP coach Joe Hamre said it was a good learning experience for a young group, one that had two eighth-graders starting in the infield and another on the bump during the game.
“It was a wake-up call,” Hamre said. “We gotta get ready for the comp that we’ll be facing. We just gotta stick with it.”
Roundtree and Fagerness finished with a combined four hits and five runs batted in, while Beau Miller drove in a pair and tallied a hit while also drawing two walks and scoring two runs of his own.
Ty Bodenhamer and Brody Richards both added two RBIs apiece, and Richards struck out four in two innings on the bump.
Jack Penington pitched the third, striking out two in a perfect frame.
“We have a lot of kids that are wanting to step up and play at that next level,” Overbay said. “That’s what helps us step up and prepare, hopefully, for a long season.”
The T-Wolves (0-1, 0-1 C2BL) and Pirates (1-0, 1-0 C2BL) will face each other again on Monday in White Pass in the two-game series finale.
“Just looking ahead to getting some more baseball in, and hopefully some better weather,” Overbay said.
