By RICK PETERSON
TopSports.news
The first five batters of Sunday's game reached base for Washburn, 4-6 overall, 2-1 MIAA, with a walk by Ian Luce and singles by Jackson Mervosh and Easton Wasinger, the second scoring a run.
Another run came around to score on an error in the field and Levi Risenhoover plated another with a single into left to make it 3-0.
The Jets (3-10, 1-2) got two runs back on a hit and an error in the bottom of the inning.
In the second Washburn got a runner on with an error before Chase Littrell smashed a home run to right field to get the two runs back. Newman strung together three hits in the bottom of the third inning to pull within one.
Littrell struck again, plating one run in the fourth as he scored Trenton Barry, who doubled.
Kai Bennett finished off his start on the mound with a scoreless fourth inning. A pair of doubles in the fifth, first from Wasinger and then Brandt Beeby boosted the Ichabod lead to 7-4.
In the sixth Washburn got two more runs, one on an RBI grounder by Trey West and another on a single from Luce.
Max Strash entered the game in the fifth and tossed a pair of scoreless innings.
In the home half of the seventh Newman took advantage of a pair of errors by the Ichabods that extended the inning and allowed four runs to come around and make it a 9-8 game.
Washburn left two runners on in the top of the eighth, and in the bottom the Jets scored a pair to go in front for the first and only time in the game.
The Ichabods out-hit Newman 11-10 while also leading in walks 6-5. They committed four errors in the game while the Jets had just two.
Four pitchers combined for nine strikeouts, led by seven in 4.0 innings for Bennett. At the plate Littrell went 2-4 with three RBI while Wasinger and Beeby also had multi-hit games.
