Price throws perfect game on way to win over Williamsville

By Fred Kroner

Adam Price’s seven-inning perfect game was the highlight of two wins on Saturday (April 8) for the St. Joseph-Ogden baseball team.

In a 2-0 triumph over Williamsville, Price struck out 13 batters and faced the minimum number of batters, 21. He threw 87 pitches and 71 (81.6 percent) went for strikes.

He also scored one of the game’s two runs when Coy Taylor delivered a two-run double in the fourth inning. Maddux Carter scored the other SJ-O run.

In the first game on Saturday at Tremont, Nolan Earley pitched and hit the Spartans to a 17-1 victory against the host school.

Earley permitted three hits in the five-inning game, walking one and striking out eight. He was also 3-for-3 at the plate.

Luke Landrus scored four runs, Taylor scored three runs and Carter scored twice.

Carter and Price each bashed three hits. Charles Voorhees knocked in four runs. Price had three RBI and Carter drove in two runs.

On Thursday (April 6), Sophomore Kendrick Johnson pitched a four-inning no-hitter as the SJ-O thumped visiting Rantoul, 12-0, in an Illini Prairie Conference contest.

Johnson (2-0) struck out seven batters.

Spartans with two hits apiece were Jared Altenbaumer, Earley, Wes Haley and Landrus. Earley, Landrus and Tanner Jacob all drove in two runs.

Landrus swiped two bases and scored two runs. Earley, Haley and Price each tallied two runs.

Price was 1-for-1 at the plate and is 11-for-15 in his last five games.

SJ-O (9-4) returns to action on Monday (April 10) at home against Stanford Olympia. The Spartans are 3-0 in conference action.