With the bases loaded and no outs in the top of the seventh, the University Heights Academy baseball team looked ready to pull off a late-inning comeback at St. Mary on Wednesday. However, the Blazers came up empty, with a strikeout and a double play ending a 4-2 loss to the Vikings.
St. Mary bounced back from its first defeat of the season to improve to 5-1. UHA saw a five-game winning run come to an end to slip to 6-3 ahead of a trip to Madisonville-North Hopkins on Friday.
Two Blazer errors, a walk, and a passed ball allowed the Vikings to take a first-inning lead, and they doubled the advantage after a pair of walks and a single loaded the bases in the bottom of the third.
Brett Haas’ two-run home run made it 4-0 before the Blazers scored a pair of runs in the fifth to cut the margin in half.
A St. Mary error and a pair of walks put the Blazers in business with no outs in the top of the seventh, but Viking pitcher Jake Haas got a strikeout and coaxed a double play to end the game with runners at second and third.
Landon Durbin earned the win on the mound for the Vikings, allowing a single earned run on a hit with five walks and six strikeouts over four and a third innings. Jake Haas went the final two and two-thirds to pick up the save, giving up an unearned run with four walks and a strikeout.
Jackson Flynn took the loss for the Blazers, surrendering four runs, three earned, on three hits with four walks and ten strikeouts. Josh Pace worked the final two innings, scattering two hits and striking out five.
Brett Haas finished with two hits and a pair of RBI for the Vikings, and Jackson Willett had a hit and a run driven in.
