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Show Jordan Beetdiggers Defeat PG 17-Under Baseball Team by Dean Von Memmott In Utah Baseball Academy League action at Jordan on June 22, the Jordan Beetdiggers defeated de-feated the Pleasant Grove Vikings' 17-under division team 11-10. The Vikings couldn't put any runners on base during the top of the first. In the bottom of it, Beet-digger Beet-digger Tanner Barr singled off pitcher Sage Peacock, and he came home on a Ty Swan single. Pleasant Grove erased Jordan's 1-0 lead in the top of the second. Getting on base through a walk, Tyler Harmon stole home, setting set-ting off a five-run rally. All of those runs were unearned. un-earned. In the bottom of the second, Augie Anderson singled in two runs to unleash un-leash a seven-run rally. Al Fife singled Anderson in to put the Beetdiggers ahead 6-5. By the time the Vikings finally shut it down, the lead had grown to 8-5. With Bryce Jones homering over the left-field left-field fence at the start of the third inning, Pleasant Grove soon tied the game at eight on Braden Cox's one-run single. Hitting a left-field single in the bottom of the third, Barr got doubled in by a Connor Ogden double. In the fourth's top half, McKay Walker singled into left, then came home on a Parker Bullock sacrifice fly. Singling in the bottom of the fourth, Morgan "Mo" Gomez came come on an error. Barr doubled in a run to improve the Beetdig-ger Beetdig-ger lead at 1 1-8. Held scoreless in the fifth, Pleasant Grove pulled within 11-10 through Riley Erickson doubling in two runs. Jordan didn't let the Vikings pull any closer. |