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Spartan baserunner Jack Robertson is tagged out by Westville catcher Drew Wichtowski on a play at home plate. The St. Joseph-Ogden baseball team earned their 20th victory of the season after 7-3 victory over the visiting Tigers. SJO, now 21-4 after yesterday's come-from-behind win over Charleston, has lost just one contest out of the 17 played during the month April.
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SJO catcher Braxton Waller gives pitcher Nolan Earley a fist bump after a quick conference on the mound. Earley, who pitched 6 innings, threw 54 strikes in the 98 pitches he tossed on Wednesday.
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SJO's Maddux Carter watches his ball go past the infield as he heads to first base. The senior went 3-for-3 at the plate and scored twice for the Spartans.
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Nolan Early winds up to throw heat at a waiting Westville batter. Fifteen of his first pitches to the 27 batters he faced were strikes.
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SJO senior Maddux Carter safely slides to second base in the bottom of the 6th inning on a passed ball.
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Lefty Adam Price puts the ball in play for the Spartans in the bottom of the sixth inning. The tap went directly to the Westville second baseman producing the third out of the game. After four trips to the plate, Price finished the non-conference contest two hits, including a double, and three RBIs.
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St. Joseph-Ogden's Mr. Utility Luke Landrus hurls a pitch in the top of the seventh innning. Not giving up a hit in the final inning, the junior tossed 21 pitches walking two batters to close out win number 20 for the Spartans.
