Nothing final in marathon baseball game in 4A Je co League play

BY DENNIS PLEUSS JEFFCO PUBLIC SCHOOLS

WHEAT RIDGE — Maybe ttingly, there was no nal score to report from the Class 4A Je co League baseball game April 20 at Everitt Middle School.

After nearly 4 hours of baseball, D’Evelyn and Wheat Ridge players shook hands after the game was suspended due to darkness at 7:45 p.m. e Jaguars were leading 19-10 going to the bottom of the eighth inning.

D’Evelyn (8-5, 3-0 in league) scored 9 runs in the top of the eighth inning after the game went to extra innings. Wheat Ridge (2-10, 1-2) will bat in the bottom of the eighth inning when the game is resumed. e game was scheduled to be nished up Saturday, April 22, at D’Evelyn Junior/Senior High School, but the snowstorm that blanketed Je co postponed the remainder of the league game and non-league game between the Farmers and Jaguars. It was a game appropriate for a script to Stranger ings or Twilight Zone.

rough 7 and a half innings, there were 26 walks and 5 hit-by-pitch. While there were 29 combined runs scored, D’Evelyn and Wheat Ridge managed just a dozen hits between the two squads.

D’Evelyn had a 6-run bottom of the sixth to take a 10-8 lead. e Farmers had just one hit in the innings, a 2-run single by freshman Nathan Trione Jr. Wheat Ridge took advantage of ve walks and two Jaguar errors in the inning. Trione actually produced both of the Farmers’ two hits.