By JIM MISUNAS
jmisunas@gbtribune.com
LARNED — The Larned Babe Ruth 13-year-old baseball team rolled past Newton 22-12 to capture the District 4 baseball championship.
Larned will play Fredonia in the Babe Ruth 13-year-old state tournament at the Fredonia Sports Complex Friday.
Larned’s Jack Stelter tripled twice and drove in five runs. Kaiden Pontius, Dillon Smith, Gunner Cline and Trevor Bartz also drove in two runs apiece.
Stelter and Cline singled home runs in a two-run first inning. Cline and Jacob Grossfield drove in runs in a three-run third inning.
Larned put the game with a nine-run third inning. Pontius and Sillon Smith each delivered two-run singles. Stelter’s two-run triple scored Grossfield and Pontius in a five-run fifth inning.
Starter Layton Crosby and reliever Dillon Smith yielded 12 runs, but just one run was earned because of eight Larned errors.
Newton’s Ian Akers had three RBIS and Griffin Davis drove in two runs.
BABE RUTH 13 STATE
AT FREDONIA SPORTS COMPLEX
FRIDAY’S GAMES
Noon—Garden City vs. Girard
2 p.m.—Pittsburg vs. Southwest League All-Stars
5 p.m.—Newton vs. Spring River
8 p.m.—Larned vs. Fredonia
LARNED 22, NEWTON 12
LARNED AB R H BI
Kaiden Pontius 2 3 1 2
Aiden Smyth 4 3 2 0
Jack Stelter 4 3 3 5
Dillon Smith 4 1 1 2
Gunner Cline 4 2 2 2
Andreus Tucker 3 1 0 0
Trevor Bartz 2 4 1 2
Layton Crosby 1 0 1 0
CJ Patterson 2 2 1 1
Jacob Grossfield 2 3 0 1
TOTALS 28 22 12 15
Newton 140 700 — 12 8 5
Larned 239 251 — 22 12 8
2B—Coleman, Bartz, Cline. 3B—Akers, Stelter 2. HBP—Thompson, Smith, Cline, Grossfield. SB—Akers 3, Golubski, Davis 2, Bartz 2, Pontius, Stelter, Smyth 3, Cline, Grossfield 2, Tucker 2. LOB—Newton 5, Larned 6. E—Patterson 3, Grossfield 2, Golubski 2, Schloneger, Coleman, Davis, Bartz, Smyth, Smith. PB—Musser 8, Thompson 2. WP—Crosby 2.
Newton IP H R ER BB SO
Golubski 2 9 13 10 4 2
Davis 2 1 3 0 2 0
Thmpsn 0 0 4 4 4 0
Coy-Dick 1 2 2 2 2 0
Larned IP H R ER BB SO
Crosby 1.1 2 4 1 3 1
Smith 4.2 6 8 0 0 6