Nevada baseball hosts Crimson and Gray intrasquad game

Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Lane Ketterman, who represented the Gray team, hits to shortstop and is thrown out at first base in the bottom of the second inning.

Nevada Daily Mail

A new tradition has begun at Nevada High School. The Nevada Tigers baseball team hosted its first annual Crimson and Gray game at Lyons Stadium Tuesday afternoon.

Tigers head coach Danny Penn said he got the idea for an intrasquad game as the unofficial starting point of the season from his days coaching at Pittsburg. Though it was a chilly day, the weather mostly cooperated and the game went on without a hitch.

It looked as though it would be a close affair as each squad put up multiple runs in the first inning. The Crimson squad took a 3-2 lead at the end of the frame and that's where the scoring stopped for the next inning and a half.

In the bottom of the third, however, the Crimson squad put up 11 runs on just three hits and four Gray errors to take a 14-2 lead. Things didn't get much better for the Gray squad from there as the powerful Crimson offense took control of the game, putting up three more runs in the fifth and two in the eighth to take the victory by a final score of 19-5.

Alex Payne was the obvious star of the game for the Gray squad as he hit a two-run homer in the first inning and finished the game with two RBIs and a run scored, making him in some way responsible for three of the squad's five runs. The offense was much more evenly spread across the roster for the Crimson squad, with three players accounting for three runs each.

The official start to the Tigers' season is set for Thursday, at Joplin, weather permitting.

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