Indians pick up district wins against Davis, Lindsay

The Comanche Indians had a busy week with district games and a tournament that turned into a festival thanks to some inclement weather.

Last Tuesday, the Indians completed their sweep of Davis with a 6-2 home win. They followed it up by going 1-1 at the Marlow Festival and then started this week off with an 11-9 district win over Lindsay on Monday.

The Indians (12-5) were undefeated in district play heading into Tuesday’s home game against Lindsay.

Tuesday

Comanche 6

Davis 2

A day after the offenses were hot in a battle between the two teams, pitching took over on the second day.

Comanche trailed 2-1 heading into the bottom of the sixth inning when senior Brady Dobbins blasted a three-run home run to put his team ahead. Kooper Doucet and Ian Essex than added an RBI to make it a five-run inning and give the Indians some breathing room.

Dobbins had picked up a first-inning RBI to make a total of four RBI for the game as he went 1-for-3. Essex was the only player to get at least two hits as he went 2-for-4 with a run scored and an RBI. Gabe Diaz, Payton Jones and Kanon Clift all had hits.

Diaz picked up the win on the mound as he threw a complete game. He gave up five hits, an earned run, a walk and struck out eight.

Friday

Elgin 12

Comanche 1

The game was supposed to take place Thursday in Marlow, but rain caused a postponement until Friday where the schedule had to be re-arranged so that teams could only play two games.

Elgin scored four runs each in the first, third and fourth innings. They had nine hits and took advantage of four Comanche errors.

Comanche had two hits in the game with Ian Essex getting both, including a triple.

Brady Dobbins took the loss on the mound.

Saturday

Comanche 7

Navajo 6

It was a tight game throughout before Comanche pulled it out at the end.

Essex continued his hot streak, going 2-for-4 with a double and two runs scored. Clayton Branter went 2-for-2 with a runs scored. Gunner King, Gabe Diaz, Brady Dobbins and Payton Jones all had hits. Dobbins had two RBI and a double.

Monday

Comanche 11

Lindsay 9

The game was delayed about two hours as they had to wait on umpires, but the Indians left Lindsay with a win anyway.

The Leopards held a 6-3 lead after four innings, but two runs by Comanche in the top of the fifth cut the lead to one run and then five runs in top of the sixth gave the Indians the lead for good.

Essex belted a two-run home run that put Comanche ahead. Also in the inning, Landon Steele picked up a 2-RBI double and Colby Shannan had an RBI single.

Comanche added another run in the top of the seventh to push the lead to 11-7.

Lindsay got two runs across the plate in the bottom half on the seventh before relief pitcher Gunner King coaxed a groundout to shortstop with two runners on board to end the game.

Essex went 2-for-3 with four runs scored to go with his two-run home run. King was 2-for-3 with four runs scored. Landon Steele was 2-for-4 with a double and 4 RBI. Gabe Diaz, Brady Dobbins, Payton Jones and Colby Shannon also had hits.

Diaz was the winning pitcher for the Indians, going 5 2/3 innings with nine hits, six earned runs, five walks and six strikeouts.