The Bayfield High School baseball team split a doubleheader Monday afternoon at home against Alamosa.
The Wolverines (10-5, 7-1 3A Intermountain League) used a dominant pitching performance by Hayden Farmer to win the first game 3-0. They couldn’t get the sweep, though, as Alamosa scored three runs in the seventh inning to pull off a 4-2 comeback win.
Bayfield used four walks to the first five batters to take an early lead in the first game. Farmer scored a run in the second after an error allowed Hub Brandon to reach. Brandon came around to score to give the Wolverines a three-run lead, and that was plenty of offense with a dominant Farmer on the mound.
The sophomore struck out 11 Mean Moose batters, walked one and gave up just three hits in the complete game shutout. He was also 1-for-2 at the plate with a walk and a run scored.
Things looked promising for the Wolverines in game two.
The game was scoreless in the fifth inning until Alec Demko knocked a two-run triple to right-center that scored Farmer and Austin Bushnell to give Bayfield a 2-0 lead.
Fred Edwards pitched five solid innings for BHS, but Alamosa (10-4, 4-2 3A IML) got an unearned run back in the sixth inning and rallied in the seventh.
The first batter of the inning reached on a dropped third strike. The next batter laid down a sacrifice bunt, but the Wolverines couldn’t make the play as the ball was overthrown to first base.
With runners on second and third, Alamosa’s Tyler Zimmerman plated the tying and go-ahead runs with a triple and scored on an error in the next at-bat.
Farmer walked to start the final inning and stole second base, but a hard tag by Zimmerman at second base turned into a verbal altercation that led to both players getting ejected.
With two runners on, Demko hit a hard line drive that could have tied the game, but the Mean Moose left fielder made a great effort to track in down and Alamosa held on to win.
Next up for Bayfield is an 11 a.m. doubleheader Saturday at Monte Vista.
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