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Routt’s Bryson Mossman looks up for the umpire’s call after being tagged out by Greenfield-Northwestern catcher Kayden Roberts in a close play at the plate during a baseball game in Jacksonville on Monday.<\/p>\n
Dennis Mathes | Journal-Courier<\/p>\n
Action from the Routt baseball team’s win over Greenfield-Northwestern in Jacksonville on Monday<\/p>\n
Dennis Mathes | Journal-Courier<\/p>\n
Action from the Routt baseball team’s win over Greenfield-Northwestern in Jacksonville on Monday<\/p>\n
Dennis Mathes | Journal-Courier<\/p>\n
Action from the Routt baseball team’s win over Greenfield-Northwestern in Jacksonville on Monday<\/p>\n
Dennis Mathes | Journal-Courier<\/p>\n
Action from the Routt baseball team’s win over Greenfield-Northwestern in Jacksonville on Monday<\/p>\n
Dennis Mathes | Journal-Courier<\/p>\n
Action from the Routt baseball team’s win over Greenfield-Northwestern in Jacksonville on Monday<\/p>\n
Dennis Mathes | Journal-Courier<\/p>\n
Action from the Routt baseball team’s win over Greenfield-Northwestern in Jacksonville on Monday<\/p>\n
Dennis Mathes | Journal-Courier<\/p>\n
Routt\u2019s Bryson Mossman broke out of a 1-for-7 slump over the past two games, going 4-for-4 with five RBIs as the Rockets beat Greenfield-Northwestern 17-7 in Jacksonville on Monday.<\/p>\n
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Routt improved to 9-5 overall and remained undefeated in the Western Illinois Valley Conference.<\/p>\n
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Mossman came in early for a little extra batting practice before Monday\u2019s game. He said he tried not to do too much, and focused on hitting line drives.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe past two games, I think I was like 0-for-8, so I’m glad it balanced out a little bit,\u201d Mossman\u00a0said.<\/p>\n
Routt jumped on top with a run in the bottom of the first, but Greenfield-Northwestern scored four in the second inning to take a 4-1 lead.<\/p>\n
Routt answered with six in the bottom of the second to regain the lead. Kale Reich got the rally started, blasting a two-run homer to drive in Dalton Brown, who reached on an error leading off the inning.<\/p>\n
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Sam Long followed with a walk and advanced all the way to third on a missed pickoff attempt. Talon Thompson walked. Owen Smith, running for Thompson, stole second before Mossman singled to center to drive in a pair of runs to put Routt back on top, 5-4.
Mossman stole second and scored on a two-out double by Jacob Brown. Anson Butcher followed with a single to drive in Brown to make it 7-4.<\/p>\n
Routt added single runs in the third and fourth innings. Greenfield-NW scored three in the fifth to cut the lead to 9-7, but Routt responded with a run in the bottom of the fifth before ending the game early with seven in the sixth. Tigers pitchers hit four batters in the inning, forcing in the game-winning run when pinch hitter\u00a0Brody Beets was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded. Taegan Rives, Long, Mossman and Brady Turner all singled in the inning.<\/p>\n
\u201cCredit to Greenfield and Coach (Jacob)\u00a0McEvers,\u201d Routt coach Ryan Turner said. \u201cHe always has his guys ready, and they came out and made it a little tougher on us than we anticipated, I think.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI was just proud of our guys, the way they responded with the bats and hit the ball pretty well today.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Jonas Brown, Samuel Long and Dalton Brown all pitched for the Rockets, combining for a five-hitter. Brown shut out the Tigers on no hits in the sixth inning to set the stage for\u00a0Routt\u2019s final\u00a0rally.<\/p>\n
Brock Bowman, Mason Winters and Logan Ross all pitched for the the Tigers. Hudson Duncheon had two hits to lead Greenfield-Northwestern. Ross hit a double.<\/p>\n
Reich and Jacob Brown had two hits apiece to lead the Rockets. \u201cKale had a nice breakout game,\u201d Turner said. \u201cHe got his home run and caught a couple of good barrels. Jacob Brown had a nice barrel off the wall. Just proud of the guys. Proud of\u00a0Bryson and his efforts, for sure. And I’m glad he’s a baseball player this year.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Mossman returned to the baseball team this season after taking a year off. The senior is headed to\u00a0Quincy University on a basketball scholarship this fall.<\/p>\n
\u201cI’ve played baseball my whole life,\u201d Mossman\u00a0said. \u201cI didn’t play last year and just kind of wanted to do it one more time with my boys.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Routt’s Bryson Mossman looks up for the umpire’s call after being tagged out by Greenfield-Northwestern catcher Kayden Roberts…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[101313,116,118,117,101592,110],"class_list":["post-231185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-greenfield-northwestern-baseball","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-routt-baseball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}