Bearcats take 3rd Place in the SIJHSAA State Tournament Thursday

PINCKNEYVILLE, IL –  Peyton Mazur hit a base clearing double driving in three runs as the Christopher Bearcats defeated the Hardin County Cougars 6-3 in eight innings, two win third place in the SIJHSAA state tournament on Thursday afternoon.   Mazur started on the mound for the Bearcats, pitching six innings and scoring two runs.     Mazur threw a no hitter in the Bearcats quarterfinal win over O’Fallon Carrel.

Mason Goins pitched two innings of scoreless relief to pick of the win for the Bearcats.  Bryson Cullum took the loss for the Cougars.

“When we lost the coin toss, for the third straight time. And with the rain the other day thought maybe I was just in it for bad luck,. We scored 1st but then gave it back on some defensive mishaps too early in game. First  batter hits to 1st base, we drop ball running to bag to get the out. Then  a hit to RF by Cougar Catcher Jake Vaughn kept turning to the far corner of the field for an in the park homerun.

Then we start 2nd inning out with an error at 2B where pop up drops on grass. Start third with single. Eventually scoring on wild pitch. We got out of the inning on a heads up play by pitcher Peyton Mazur covering third on blip hit behind third.
Offensively bottom of order came through big in the 5th. 7-9 got on base and scored for us.”, said Bearcat coach Tim Leffler.

The rain Coach Leffler referred to was a big inning Trico put together in the semi-final game during a down pour, before play was stopped in a 5-4 loss to the Pioneers in the semi-finals.

A full box score of the game is below.

CHRISTOPHER BEARCATS (6) AT HARDIN COUNTY (3)

CHRISTOPHER BEARCATS

AB R H BI
CF Colin Sveda 3 1 1 1
C-Trey Cole 4 2 2 0
3B-P Mason Goins 3 1 0 0
P-3B Peyton Mazur 4 0 1 3
SS Scout Hudgens 4 0 0 0
1B Trent Mazur 4 0 0 0
LF Briar Rowland 2 1 0 0
2B Carson Hobbs 3 1 1 0
DH Kade Harbison 3 0 1 1

RF Chase Cole 0 0 0 0

TOTALS 30 6 6 5

HARDIN COUNTY COUGARS

P- 3B Smith 4 1 2 0
SS Ben Vaughn 3 1 1 0
C J Vaughn 4 1 1 2
3B-P  Bryson Cullum 3 0 0 0
1B Lance Ditterline 4 0 0 0
LF Levi Snyder 3 0 1 0
2B Morgan Frickor 3 0 0 0
CF Walker Bebout 2 0 0 0
RF Levi Borum 3 0 0 0
TOTALS 29 3 5 2

CHRISTOPHER BEARCATS 100 020 03 — 6
HARDIN COUNTY 201 000 00 — 3

LOB–CHRISTOPHER BEARCATS 3, HARDIN COUNTY 5. ERR–Trent
Mazur, Trey Cole, Carson Hobbs, B Vaughn. 2B–Peyton Mazur,
Trey Cole (2). HR–J Vaughn. HBP–Briar Rowland. SB–Trey
Cole.

CHRISTOPHER BEARCATS

IP H R ER BB SO HR
Peyton Mazur 6.00 4 3 2 2 9 1
Mason Goins (W) 2.00 1 0 0 1 6 0

HARDIN COUNTY  COUGARS
Smith 5.33 4 3 3 0 7 0
Cullum (L) 2.67 2 3 3 2 3 0

PB–Trey Cole, J Vaughn. WP–Peyton Mazur (3), Smith.
SO–Trent Mazur, Peyton Mazur (3), Colin Sveda, Kade
Harbison, Briar Rowland (2), Carson Hobbs, Mason Goins,
Snyder, Cullum (2), Bebout, B Vaughn (2), Borum (2),
Ditterline (2), J Vaughn (2), Frickor (3). BB–Colin Sveda,
Mason Goins, Cullum, Bebout, B Vaughn.