Neenah roughs up Appleton West baseball

AppletonSportsPage.com

NEENAH – Neenah pitcher A.J. Price held Appleton West to just one hit and the Rockets cruised to a 15-1 win in a Fox Valley Association baseball game Friday at Neenah High School.

Price struck out nine in the five-inning complete game, and also went 3-for-4 and scored three times for the Rockets (10-7, 8-5 FVA).

Neenah led 5-1 after three innings before a 10-run fourth effectively ended it.

Riker Blahnik had Appleton West’s lone hit as the Terrors drop to 5-11 overall and 5-7 in conference play.

Appleton West will host Hortonville on Saturday at 10 a.m. at the Nienhaus Sports Complex.

Rockets 15, Terrors 1
Appleton West   100   00   –   1   1   5
Neenah   041   (10)x   –   15  9   1
WP: A.J. Price. LP: Riley Verboomen.
SO: Verboomen (2 inn.) 2, Dexter Gerard (1 1/3 inn.) 0, Hartlep (2/3 inn.) 0; Price 9. BB: Verboomen 4, Gerard 4, Hartlep 0.
Top hitters: AW, Riker Blahnik 1×2. N, Trevor Stichman 2 runs; Price 3×4, 2B, 3 runs, RBI; Ethan Van Dyke 2×3, 2B, 2 RBI; Isaac Verbruggen 3 runs, 2 RBI; Payton Miller 2×2, 2 runs, RBI; Will St. Clair 3 RBI.
Records: Appleton West 5-11, 5-7 Fox Valley Association; Neenah 10-7, 8-5 Fox Valley Association.