Sergeant Bluff, Ia (KICD) – The Spencer Baseball and Softball teams were back in action in Sergeant Bluff on Monday after a week away from action due to the flood.

The Tiger Softball team put up a decent fight against a Sergeant Bluff-Luton team that has been in the rankings most of the year in 4A.

The Warriors jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the bottom of the 1st inning. The score would stay their thill Sergeant Bluff-Luton added to that lead in the bottom of the 4th with a couple more runs to make it 5-0.

Spencer would break through in the 6th inning, bringing a run across to make it 5-1, but the Warriors responded with a couple more runs in the bottom of the 6th to make it 7-1.

The Tigers pushed across one more run in the top of the 7th, but that was all they could muster as Spencer drops to 4-17 on the year and Sergeant Bluff-Luton improves to 22-6.

The Spencer Baseball team was just to the west where they saw Sergeant Bluff-Luton jump out to a 4-0 lead in the bottom of the 1st inning. The first 6 batters reached base for the Warriors. A combination of some defensive mistakes and pitching control brought a few runs across as the Tigers made an early pitching change, bringing in Trenton Hallett.

On the other side, Sergeant Bluff-Luton ace Tanner Kleene dominated the Spencer lineup. In the first 5 innings, the Tigers lone baserunner had reached on an error.

Hallett had his fair share of traffic throughout the contest, but never conceded a run, throwing 5.1 innings, allowing 5 hits, walking 1 and striking out 5 in some strong long-relief work.

The Spencer offense finally managed a hit in the top of the 6th when a shallow pop up landed in no man’s land off the bat of Cohen Rittenhouse who in the confusion, stretched it to a double with some crafty base running. He would remain at second though as Kleene struck out the next two hitters. Braden Seversen singled for the Tigers with two outs in the top of the 7th, but Kleene stopped any rally there, forcing the next batter to ground out to first.

Sergeant Bluff-Luton’s 4-0 win improves them to 19-14 on the year while Spencer drops to 12-7.

Tanner Kleene got the win for the Warriors, throwing the complete game shutout with 14 strikeouts and only allowing 2 hits.

The loss went to Aaden Techen who went 0.2 innings in the start with 3 earned runs, 3 hits, 2 walks, and a strikeout.

Next up on the schedule for the Spencer baseball and softball teams is a Wednesday trip to Humboldt to play the wildcats in a JV/Varsity double-header.