New Palestine High School

The New Palestine baseball team scored in six of its seven at-bats Wednesday to beat Hoosier Heritage Conference rival Delta 11-3. The victory gave the Dragons a sweep of the two-game series and extended their winning streak to eight games. The Dragons are now 13-5 overall and 6-4 in the HHC. Adam Rickey was 5-for-5 to pace a 17-hit Dragons attack. The Dragons wasted little time getting started, as Wes Stiller's first-inning one-out double drove home Ben Morwick for Stiller's eighth RBI of the two-game series. In the second inning, the Dragons added another run when they loaded the bases on hits by Rickey and Nolan Cox and Wyatt Mathies was hit by a pitch. Nick Deering plated Rickey with a sacrifice fly. Delta was able to get out of the frame without any further scoring and then tied the game in the bottom of the inning with a pair of runs. But the Dragons quickly answered, loading the bases on a walk to Ben Hirschy and singles by Rickey and Matheis. Cox drove in two runs with a single to right, and Deering plated another with a bunt single. Blaine Nunnally singled home another run, pushing the lead to 6-2. The Dragons added two more in the fourth when Jacob Morris singled and Hirschy was hit by a pitch. Rickey drove in a run with a double to center, followed by a sacrifice fly by Mathies to push the lead to 8-2. In the fifth, Morwick was hit by a pitch, stole second, moved to third on a flyout and scored on Morris' single to left. The Dragons scored two more runs in the seventh on a base hit by Rickey, an error and a two-run double by Deering. Michael Thorpe pitched six strong innings to earn the win, allowing two earned runs and seven hits, striking out six. Cox finished off the game with one strikeout in the seventh. Rickey was 5-for-5 with three runs, a double and an RBI. Morris was 2-for-5 with a run. Mathies was 2-for-2 with an RBI. Cox was 2-for-4 with a run and two RBI. Deering was 2-for-3 with a double and four RBI. Nunnally was 1-for-4 with an RBI. Morwick was 1-for-2 with two runs scored. Stiller was 1-for-5 with a double and an RBI. Gavin Neal was 1-for-1. The Dragons are next in action Friday at Connersville.