By RICK PETERSON
TopSports.news
Barring a big upset, Seaman baseball was going to sweep Wednesday's United Kansas Conference home doubleheader against city rival Topeka West.
Seaman junior Axton Brewer had a big day at the plate in Wednesday's UKC sweep over Topeka West, including a home run and a three-run double. [Photo by Rex Wolf/TSN]
But there were still things, in addition to a pair of wins, that Viking coach Steve Bushnell wanted his team to accomplish.
And Seaman was able to achieve each and every one of Bushnell's goals in a 12-0, 20-0 sweep over the Chargers as the Vikings improved to 6-2 overall and 5-1 in the UKC while stretching their winning streak to five games.
Wednesday's routs came on the heels of a 15-0, 11-0 UKC sweep over Turner on Tuesday.
"The big thing was just an opportunity to get on the field and being early in our season, just having an opportunity to run some situational offense and get back in tune with verbal commands and baserunning and things that you work on in practice, but it's not always a live situation,'' Bushnell said.
"So having an opportunity to run bases and just let the hitters get some on-field hacks was important over the last two days and last four games that we've played.''
Senior Cale Rosenberger (8) had a pair of doubles in Seaman's 12-0 first-game win over Topeka West. [Photo by Rex Wolf/TSN]
Seaman sophomore Michael Dobbs and sophomore Carson Anspaugh combined to throw a five-inning no-hitter in the first game while the Vikings lashed out 12 hits and seven extra-base hits, including a home run from junior Axton Brewer.
Senior Cooper Hayes and junior Bryson Fehr combined for a one-hitter in the second game while Seaman batted around twice in the first inning en route to a 14-run first inning and tacked on six runs in the second inning, ending the game after two and a half innings by way of the 15-run spread rule.
Junior Beau Jessop and Fehr tripled in the game while Brewer had a three-run double and Dobbs delivered a two-run double.
"Our pitchers were outstanding for the most part, just throwing strikes and pitching to contact,'' Bushnell said.
Seaman is set to begin a tough stretch of games, beginning with a Saturday non-league home game against Tonganoxie, a Class 4A state tournament team a year ago.
"Our schedule is going to get heavy,'' Bushnell said. "Tongie's going to come in here on Saturday and we'll have (Bishop) Carroll the following Saturday and we'll have Aquinas and Shawnee Mission Northwest the following Saturday so our next three Saturdays we'll play teams that are ranked in their classification.''
GAME 1
SEAMAN 12, TOPEKA WEST 0
Topeka West 000 00 -- 0 0 2
Seaman 254 1x -- 12 12 0
Max Calvert, Malikia Carter (3) and Roman Babcock. Michael Dobbs, Carson Anspaugh (5) and Grayson Sextro. W -- Michael Dobbs. L -- Max Calvert. 2B -- Seaman: Cale Rosenberger 2, Cooper Hayes 2, Ryan Bustamante. 3B -- Seaman: Zach Farkas. HR -- Seaman: Axton Brewer.
GAME 2
SEAMAN 20, TOPEKA WEST 0
Topeka West 000 -- 0 1 3
Seaman (14)6x -- 20 12 0
Brexton White, Ayden Hadden (1), Colten Langley (1), Keegan Downing (2) and Roman Babcock. Cooper Hayes, Bryson Fehr (3) and Kevin Moe. W -- Cooper Hayes. L -- Ayden Hadden. 2B -- Seaman: Axton Brewer 2, Michael Dobbs. 3B -- Seaman: Beau Jessop, Bryson Fehr.
