The Morrison Mustangs have been competing against the weather as well as the local baseball teams and finally got two games in and gave up leads in the seventh inning of both games to go 0-2 for the day.
The second game on Monday, April 15, 2013, between the Morrison Fillies and the Riverdale Lady Rams earned the Fillies a 5-0 Conference record, as the offense scored five runs late to finish off the Lady Rams by a score of 8-4.
The weather allowed the Morrison fillies on the field, and they took full advantage by shutting out rival Riverdale 3-0 on Monday, April 15, 2013.
The temperature was in the lower 40’s with a brisk wind, but the bats were not chilled as the Morrison Fillies and Rockridge Lady Rockets combined for 24 hits in a 9-6 Fillies win on Friday April 12, 2013.
The A’s of Rock Island Alleman invited the Morrison Mustangs to their field and embarrassed them by collecting eleven hits and thirteen runs leading to a 13-3 six inning game on Monday, April 8, 2013.
The Morrison Ponies and Amboy Rowboats combined to collect 29 hits and score 34 runs as Morrison sank the Rowbaots by a score of 22-12 on Monday, April 8, 2013.
Wet grounds forced the baseball game between Morrison and Amboy to be shifted to Amboy, but the Mustangs brought home another conference win by sinking the Clippers by a score of 2-1.
The Amboy Lady Clippers scored three early, but the Morrison Fillies rallied late to record their second Conference win.
Fulton 0-0-1–0-4-2-3 = 10 10 H 0 E Morrison 1-0-2-2-0-1-0 = 6 6 H 4E LP B. Tegeler (0-1) Hitting: M. Popkin 4/1 2B, A. Bird 3/3 2B, B. Tegeler 3/1 2B, B. Smith 3/3
Morrison 2-0-0-0-0-0-1 = 3 Bureau Valley 0-0-0-0-0-2-2 = 4 LP B. Smith (0-1) Multiple Hits: B. Smith 2/2, M. Kennedy 2/2, I. Bailey 4/2- 2B
Following a hitless win on Friday night, the Mustangs came out Saturday and knocked out eighteen hits to top the West Carroll Thunder 19-9.
To quote Coach Sondgeroth..”It was a crazy game!” The Morrison Mustangs traveled to Fulton and came home with a nine inning victory and never collected a single hit.
Morrison Fillies JV lost 7-6 in seven innings at Manlius, IL, on Thursday, April 4, 2013, despite outhitting Bureau Valley nine to six.
Morrison Fillies JV lost 7-6 in seven innings at Manlius on Thursday, despite outhitting Bureau Valley nine to six.
For the second time in two games of the early season, the Morrison Mustangs earned a 10-rule mercy win. This time over the conference foe Bureau Valley Storm by a score of 17-3.