The Knox Babe Ruth League gives 13- to 16-year-olds the chance to play competitive baseball. Taking over in the area after the Mount Vernon Baseball Association (Babe Ruth League) cut ties and decided against running the Babe Ruth League in Mount Vernon, the Knox Babe Ruth League went into action, with Colten Landis, league president, Hunter Shields, vice president, and Tabitha Braxton, league secretary and concessions manager, at the helm.
Team sponsors include Elks, Kiwanis, Moose and Rotary clubs, and Griffin Insurance.
Last week’s on-field action included Rotary taking an early lead July 5 and cruising to a blow-out over Kiwanis.
Rotary 16, Kiwanis 5
Rotary scored five runs in the first and never looked back. Trailing 6-0 after two, Kiwanis made a run to get back in the game with a three-run outburst in the third, when Wayde Denuit (who hit one of his two doubles), Cameron Hill, and Auden Lehman (who also knocked out one of his two doubles), each scored to make to 6-3.
Rotary saw this as a challenge and immediately put the game out of reach with a seven-spot in their half of the inning to run the score to 13-3 after three. Kiwanis was able to put a run across in the fourth, and Rotary answered again, this time with three markers to increase their lad to the final of 16-4.
The Armstrong contingent reached base 11 times for Rotary. Bryson Armstrong was 4-for-4 and stole six bases; Coen Armstrong was 3-for-4 with a double and two steals and Will Armstrong was 1-for-1 with three walks and five stolen bases..
Denuit and Lehman each had two hits to lead Kiwanis. Denuit stole four bases and Lehman swiped three.
