On a beautiful evening, and after a 2-hour delay waiting for umpires to arrive, the Cambridge varsity baseball team jumped out to an early lead and never looked back in a solid 9-1 victory over Riverwood Wednesday, March 9th at Cambridge field. The visitors contributed to the cause by committing 7 errors and walking 9 Cambridge batters in the game.

Three walks and an error in the first drove home two Cambridge runs.  A Pete Gottschalk single, a walk by Hayden Onorato and an error on a ball hit by Bradley Wiedman scored 2 in the third. Wiedman would come around to score on a wild pitch to push the score to 5-0.  Riverwood scored its lone run in the 5th to make the score 6-1.

Singles by Gottschalk and Onorato and another error on a ball off the bat of Wiedman loaded the bases for Conner Young, who hit a sacrifice fly to right to drive in a run.  Onorato would later score on a wild pitch to make the score 8-1.  A Davis Dasher HBP and a double off the bat of Gottschalk in the 6th made the score 9-1, which was the final score.

Jon Hirschland pitched a whale of a game, going 6 strong innings and scattering 5 hits.  He struck out 6 and walked 1 to earn the victory.  Niko Kourtis pitched a perfect 7th to close out the game. 

Offensively, Gottschalk led the way with 3 hits and a walk in his four at bats.  He scored 3 times and drove in a run.  Onorato had the other Bears hit, walked twice and scored 2 runs.

The Bears finish the 3-game series with Riverwood Friday night, March 11th at Old Milton HS.  Game time is 5:55 PM.

Go Bears!