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BlueSox score weekend sweep

Butler’s Prospect League baseball team brought out the brooms over the weekend in Kokomo, Ind.

The BlueSox swept the Jackrabbits by scores of 5-3 on Saturday and 10-6 on Sunday.

Butler found itself down 4-1 after five innings Sunday, but the team’s potent lineup came to life in the sixth.

Rey Gonzalez sparked a five-run inning with a bases-clearing triple. The Sox added three more runs in the seventh.

Shortstop James Meeker went 3-for-4 with two runs scored. Teammates Tanner Murphy, Calvin Scott, Ben Carew and Gonzalez each contributed two hits.

The Jackrabbits (9-14) chased Butler starter Mike Klingensmith from the mound after 3 1/3 innings pitched. He allowed four runs on five hits.

Reliever Pavin Parks surrendered a pair of runs on three hits in 4 2/3 innings, but settled things down enough to get the win.

Seneca Valley graduate Connor Coward worked a scoreless ninth frame to close the game.

In Saturday’s win, the BlueSox scored all the runs they would need in a four-run fifth frame.

Damian Maglione and Joe Gunn both hit run-scoring doubles in the inning while Patrick Ferguson and Murphy contributed RBI-singles.

Murphy followed with a solo home run to lead off the eighth.

Kokomo scored its three runs in the bottom of the fifth, cutting the BlueSox lead to 4-3.

But Butler starting pitcher Jake Stout pitched a scoreless sixth, followed by one scoreless inning of relief from three pitchers — Bryce Spak, Jack Herzing and Meeker, who was credited with a save.

Stout earned the win after allowing three runs (two earned) on 10 hits. He struck out five and walked one in his six innings of work.

The BlueSox (11-11) return to action Tuesday at West Virginia.

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