Kinsley baseball wins twin bill

KINSLEY — Kinsley/Macksville pitcher Kendall Grippin kept rolling with no earned runs to spark the Coyotes past Pratt Skyline 11-1 and 12-1 for a pair of run-rule victories Thursday. The Coyotes play at Ellis April 17.

Grippin struck out 10 batters in five innings in a 12-1 victory. Grippin (3-0) has struck out 26 batters in 13 innings with a 0.538 earned run average. 

KINSLEY 12, SKYLINE 1 (G2) — Woodrow Lancaster led the Coyotes with four runs batted home with a trio of hits. Diego Esparza drove in two runs.

Lancaster singled home Esparza in a 2-run first inning. Kaleb Granger and Esparza scored on Lancaster's double in a 3-run second inning.  Anthony Meza scored on Granger's third inning groundout.

Joey Preito and Granger scored on Esparza's double in a 4-run fifth inning. Esparza scored on an error and Joshua Stuckey scored on Lancaster's single in a 2-run seventh inning.

Kinsley took advantage of 12 walks, two hit batters and two Skyline errors.

KINSLEY 11, SKYLINE 1 (G1) — Kinsley pitcher Stuckey (2-0) struck out four batters in four shutout innings.

Trenton Anderson led the offense with four runs batted home. Lancaster drove in two runs for a 6-RBI day. Lancaster and Anderson drove in runs in a 2-run first inning.

Stuckey and Lancaster scored on Andersoan's fourth inning single. Lancaster scored on Anderson's fifth-inning single.

Kinsley 210 44 — 11 10 3

Skyline 000 01 — 1 4 5

Stuckey, Lancaster (5) and Lancaster. Freeman, Craig (5) and Flora. W—Stuckey, 2-0. L—Freeman. 2B—K—Lancaster. 3B—K—Stuckey 

Kinsley 231 040 2 — 12 7 2

Skyline 000 100 0 — 1 3 2

Grippin, Lancaster (6) and Lancaster. Flora, Bair (2), House (5) and Becker. W—Grippin, 3-1. L—Flora. 2B—K—Lancaster, Esparza