The Beggs Golden Demon varsity baseball team closed out their 3-game action at the 2022 Beggs Baseball Festival with a thrilling 5-4, 8-inning, win over the Heavener Wolves this past Saturday at Golden Demon Park.
The Beggs Golden Demon varsity baseball team closed out their 3-game action at the 2022 Beggs Baseball Festival with a thrilling 5-4, 8-inning, win over the Heavener Wolves this past Saturday at Golden Demon Park.
Prior to Saturday’s extra-inning win over Heavener, the Demons came away with a split decision in their first two festival contests, falling by a 6-1 margin to the Bixby JV last Thursday and defeating the Alva Gold Bugs by a 4-3 advantage last Friday.
The Beggs diamond squad returned to action Monday and Tuesday with District 3A-7 battles with the Cascia Hall Commandoes. The Demons hosted Cascia Hall on Monday then traveled to Tulsa on Tuesday to complete the home-and-home district series. Beggs will also be in Tulsa on Thursday with a showdown against the Tulsa Edison Eagles.
In Saturday’s extra-inning battle with Heavener, the visitors opened the scoring with a run in the top of the first.
The Demons got on the scoreboard with a pair of runs in the home half of the second for a 2-1 advantage.
After a scoreless third, Heavener went back in front, 3-2, with two runs in the top of the fourth, while Beggs regained the lead at 4-3 with two runs in the last of the fifth.
The visitors knotted the score at 4-4 with a run in the top of the sixth then both teams were unable to produce any runs in the final one and one-half innings of regulation to send the contest to an extra inning.
After the Beggs defense kept the Wolves off the scoreboard in the top of the eighth, the Demons plated the game-winning run with one out in the bottom of the frame for the 5-4 victory. Dakota Hudson led off the eighth by reaching on a hit by pitch. Hudson then stole second and moved to third on a groundout by Andrew Duclos, putting the winning run just 90 feet away. With Braylon Davis at the plate, Hudson scampered home on a wild pitch, sliding in safely ahead of the throw to give the Demons the thrilling win.
Davis (2 for 3, 2 singles) and Nate Melton (2 for 4, 2 singles, RBI) led the offensive attack for Beggs against Heavener with two hits each.
The other Demon base hits on Saturday came on singles by Hudson, Braden Gable, and Wyatt Nail and an RBI single by Dalton Hastings.
Other baserunners for Beggs in the extra-inning win were Duclos (walk), Davis (hit by pitch), Nail (hit by pitch), Hastings (2 walks), Hudson (error, walk, hit by pitch), Gage Tennyson (fielder’s choice, walk), and Darieon Johnson (error). Duclos drove in one of the two Beggs runs in the second with an RBI sacrifice fly.
Melton earned the pitching win for Beggs, striking out two and walking two, while allowing just two hits in two innings of relief work.
Hastings worked the first four innings on the mound for the Demons, giving up three runs on four hits with six strikeouts, five walks, and one hit batsman.
Johnson entered in relief at the start of the fifth for Beggs and allowed one run on no hits with one strikeout, one walk, and one hit batter in two innings of work.
Beggs 5, Heavener 4; 8 innings
Heavener: 1 - 0 - 0 - 2 - 0 - 1 - 0 - 0 4 - 6 - 2
Beggs: 0 - 2 - 0 - 0 - 2 - 0 - 0 - 1 5 - 8 - 2
One out when winning run scored WP: Nate Melton
WP: Nate Melton
LP: No. 3
HR: None
