Home Run Boosts Wildcats
Posted March 11, 2014
Home Run Boosts Wildcats
By DAVID MILLER
News Sports Editor
ENID — The weather Monday
was ideal for a baseball
game and the Ponca City
Wildcats celebrated the occasion
with a 4-1 victory over
the Enid Plainsmen in Enid’s
David Allen Memorial Ballpark.
The difference in the game
was Wildcat Robert Nanni’s
three-run home run in the
fifth inning. Otherwise, the
game was pretty much a pitchers’
duel between Ponca City’s
Joey Furber and three Enid
pitchers.
Furber, with seventh-inning
help from reliever Riley
Sells, shut down the Plainsment
on one run and six hits.
Ponca City had seven hits in
the game. The Wildcats main
show of offense came in the
fifth inning when they scored
every one of their runs.
After Ponca City’s first
inning was scoreless, Enid
picked up its lone run in the
first inning. It was 1-0 in favor
of the Plainsmen until Ponca
City’s turn to bat in the fifth.
The Plainsmen got their run
after Hunter Childs led off
with a double, stole third with
two out and scored on a single
by Braden Rogers.
Jeff Calvin started the
Ponca City fifth inning with
a single and moved to second
base on an Enid outfielder’s
error. Dalton Mazurier drove
home Calvin with a single.
Enid’s starter Christian Voitek
was replaced on the mound by
Cole Floyd after Mazurier’s
hit.
Mazurier stole second on
Floyd and after Enid recorded
the first out, Floyd hit
Blake Shepard with a pitch.
Nanni followed with a drive
that bounced off the top of the
leftfield wall for a home run.
As it turned out that was all
the scoring there was to be.
After the first inning, in
which Enid got its run and
two of its six hits, Furber shut
down the Plainsmen allowing
only four scattered hits. He
struck out four batters, and,
impressively for this time of
the season, walked no one.
Sells came in to face four Enid
batters and struck out two in
his inning of relief. The one
batter who got on base during
Sells’ tenure reached on an
error.
Wildcats who got hits in
innings other than the fourrun
fifth included Brian Wicker,
a single in the second; Sam
Flowers, a single in the sixth;
and Nanni, a double in the
seventh.
Ponca City had the bases
loaded in the sixth inning.
After Flowers’ single, Mazurier
and Chase Kurtz walked.
But then Enid’s Tanner Fore
was brought in to pitch and
he got a ground out to end the
threat.
The Wildcats are now 2-1 on
the season. They will be back
in action today against Enid
for a 5 p.m. game at the Po-Hi
baseball field.
PONCA CITY 4, ENID 1
Ponca City 000 040 0 — 4 6 3
Enid 100 000 0 — 1 6 1
Ponca City : Joey Furber, Riley Sells
(7) and Brian Wicker.
Enid — Christian Voitek, Cole Floyd (5),
Tanner Fore (6) and Bay.
W: Furber (1-0). L: Voitek.
HR: Robert Nanni (PC) (2).
2B: Robert Nanni (PC), Hunter Childs (E).