Jacobs delivers game-winning run against IVC

By FRED KRONER
fred@sjodaily.com

Kaden Jacobs’ seventh-inning double delivered the game-winning run on Saturday as St. Joseph-Ogden pulled out a 2-1 baseball victory over IVC in Chillicothe in the first game of an Illini Prairie Conference game.

IVC posted an 8-6 win in the second game.

SJ-O is 15-6-2 overall and 5-1 in Illini Prairie games.

Jacobs had two of the Spartans’ three-first game hits. Teammate Sam Wesley was the only SJ-O player with hits in each game. He was 3-for-5 for the doubleheader.

Zach Martinie pitched two hitless innings of relief in the first game and earned the win. He walked one and struck out two.

Starter Adam Rose allowed three hits and no earned runs over five innings. Rose walked three and fanned seven.

Drew Coursey suffered the second-game loss.

Besides Wesley and Rose, Crayton Burnett had two hits in the second game.

Adam Frerichs and Blake Primmer each scored two runs in the nightcap. Wesley had two RBI in the second game.