Tribe wins Rice tournament

  • Kellen Mechura attempts a bunt in Friday’s Rice Consolidated game. Chuck Grafe/Tribune-Herald
    Kellen Mechura attempts a bunt in Friday’s Rice Consolidated game. Chuck Grafe/Tribune-Herald
  • Ty Noska was named to the all-tournament team. Chuck Grafe/ Tribune-Herald
    Ty Noska was named to the all-tournament team. Chuck Grafe/ Tribune-Herald

    ALTAIR – The Sacred Heart Indians swept the field in winning the Rice Consolidated Tournament in games played Friday and Saturday.

    Sacred Heart beat Louise, 12-5, in its final game Saturday.

    The Indians (8-5) had nine hits and were aided by three Louise errors and five walks.

    The Indians scored five runs in the first inning, four in the second and three in the third.

    Coach Mark Noska used five pitchers with Wade Shimek credited with the win after throwing just a third of an inning.

    Kellen Mechura, Marcus Seger, Dillon Goedrich and Josh Terry all pitched.

    Shimek, who along with Ty Noska, was named all-tournament, hit a tworun homer. Dillon Goedrich doubled and had two hits; Hudson Kutac produced a single and triple; Terry drove in three runs with a triple; Noska had a RBI single and Layne Sevcik had a base hit.

    SH 12, Van Vleck 2

    Layne Sevcik pitched a five-hitter in the fiveinning game Friday.

    Sevcik gave up one earned run, walked two and struck out six.

    The second was the big inning for the Indians when they scored six runs.

    Wade Shimek went three-for-three and drove in two runs. Kellen Mechura doubled for three runs batted in.

    Indians 5, Rice Cons. 2

    The Indians held off Rice Consolidated Friday in the first game.

    SH led 3-0 before the Raiders scoring two runs in the bottom of the fourth inning to trim the lead to 3-2. However, the Indians scored two runs in the seventh inning, one on a double steal and the other on Josh Terry’s double which scored Ty Noska.

    Terry was the winning pitcher in relief of Noska. The junior right-hander gave up four hits, no runs, did not walk a batter and struck out two to pick up the win. Noska threw three-plus innings and surrendered both runs, no hits, walked four and recorded four strikeouts.

    The Indians scored in the top of the first inning on a single by Noska and a run-scoring double to right center by Wade Shimek.

    The Tribe made it 3-0 with two runs in the second inning. Emerson Harvey walked with the bases loaded to score Kellen Mechura and Noska dumped a single into left field to score Emerson Harvey.

    The Indians stranded six baserunners and the Raiders six.

    The Indians had just five hits with Noska going two-for-three. Klayton Chance singled.