ELLINWOOD – Ellinwood pitcher Trace Tudor (5-3) spun a 5-inning no-hitter in a 10-0 baseball victory over Minneapolis. Tudor has recorded 53 strikeouts in 391/3 innings with a 2.31 earned run average. Ellinwood won Friday’s opener 11-1.
Ellinwood (11-11) plays Hutchinson Trinity (6-16) in Friday’s Hays 2-1A baseball regional.
ELLINWOOD 10, LIONS 0 (G2) – Ellinwood’s Tudor, Campbell Coleman and Cooper Hosman each drove in a pair of runs.
Cohen Gunn, Drake Hosman, Bryan Jaske, Chase Gibson each drove in a run.
ELLINWOOD 11, LIONS 1 (G1) – Ellinwood’s Jaske, Coleman and Cooper Hosman each drove in three runs. Cooper Hosman delivered a pair of doubles. Gibson also drove in a run.
Cohen Gunn struck out four batters in four innings.
Minneapolis 001 00 – 1 4 0
Ellinwood 240 32 – 11 16 0
Cohen Gunn, Jacobs and Coleman. W—Cohen Gunn. 2B—E—Cooper Hosman 2.
Minneapolis 000 00 – 0 0 0
Ellinwood 012 07 – 10 13 0
Tudor and Jacobs. W—Tudor, 5-3. 2B—E—Coleman, Cooper Hosman.
2-1A HAYS REGIONAL—PLAY-IN—5-10—Ellis 1-17 vs. Little River 4-16 at Salina; 5-10—Ellis/Little River winner at Salina Sacred Heart 18-2; 5-10—Ell-Saline 6-14 at Inman 8-10; 5-10—Bennington 4-16 at Hays TMP 16-7; 5-10—Hutchinson Trinity 6-16 at Ellinwood 11-11, 5 p.m.