{"id":257859,"date":"2026-04-08T17:16:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T17:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/257859\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T17:16:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T17:16:27","slug":"baron-fans-15-siegel-tops-oakland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/257859\/","title":{"rendered":"Baron fans 15, Siegel tops Oakland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n        <a href=\"https:\/\/mainstreetmediatn.com\/author\/JEFF+NEAL\" onclick=\"_paq.push([&#039;trackEvent&#039;, &#039;Author Byline View&#039;, &#039;JEFF NEAL&#039;]);\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">JEFF NEAL<\/a><br \/>nealjeff061@gmail.com\t\t<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"694\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/sieoakbase4-1024x694.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1909653\"  \/>Siegel\u2019s Trey Baker is congratulated after hitting a home run against Oakland during their game Tuesday, April 7 at Oakland. MICHAEL GIGLIO<\/p>\n<p>Colton Baron struck out 15 for Siegel (23-2) in its 6-2 district opening win on the road against Oakland (7-14) at Mack Hawks Field Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Baron tossed 105 pitches, 65 of them strikes. In fact, both starters (Baron and Caden Baxter) combined to only throw 13 pitches in the fourth inning as both were at 55 after four frames.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy arm was good. I have been building up for this part of the season,\u201d Baron said. \u201cWe have a really good senior class, and I know we\u2019re going to score runs. I just have to go out there and pitch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Siegel scored single runs in the first two innings. Drew Hostetler scored after singling on the first pitch delivered by Baxter. Hostetler, in the second, singled to score Ryan Russell, who led off with a single.<\/p>\n<p>Baxter, with 82 pitches, didn\u2019t pitch bad for Oakland, throwing five frames walking three and striking out two.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Patriot reliever Brody Huddleston hurled the final two innings, throwing 27 pitches and striking out two and allowing one run.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur pitchers threw well. The reliever Brody Huddleston threw well, and he is coming back from injury,\u201d Oakland coach Mack Hawks said. \u201cWe faced a quality arm tonight and we just have to find a way to score some runs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Siegel padded its lead in the fifth after a single by Keegan Lewis, and future East Tennessee State Buccaneer Trey Baker put the ball over the fence. Later in the inning, Nate McDowell hit a sacrifice fly scoring Josh Duggin who had an infield hit earlier in the inning.<\/p>\n<p>Oakland scored its runs as Banks Baron reached the sixth and scored on a wild pitch. Braxton Greever walked and later scored when Josh Lawson tried to throw out a Patriot runner stealing second base. Greever broke for the plate from third and scored.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/sieoakbase5-1024x640.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1909657\"  \/>Oakland\u2019s Caden Baxter throws to the plate against Siegel during their game Tuesday, April 7 at Oakland. MICHAEL GIGLIO<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/sieoakbase7-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1909665\"  \/>Siegel\u2019s Josh Lawson takes a cut against Oakland during their game Tuesday, April 7 at Oakland. MICHAEL GIGLIO<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/sieoakbase6-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1909661\"  \/>Oakland\u2019s Braxton Greever throws the ball back to the infield against Siegel during their game Tuesday, April 7 at Oakland. MICHAEL GIGLIO<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/sieoakbase3-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1909637\"  \/>Siegel\u2019s Colton Baron throws to the plate against Oakland during their game Tuesday, April 7 at Oakland. MICHAEL GIGLIO<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JEFF NEALnealjeff061@gmail.com Siegel\u2019s Trey Baker is congratulated after hitting a home run against Oakland during their game Tuesday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-257859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}