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Prep Hands Westside Second Loss of Week to Claim Don Kraft Championship Saturday, May 2, 2009 |
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Photo by Bob Irlbeck |
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Front row (l-r): Bryan Sova, Kevin Dytrych, Joe Kankovsky, Mike Pritchard, Kyle Kubat, Pete Langdon, Ryan Etter, BJ Kreikemeier. Back row (l-r): Scott Bates, Max Huerter, Tanner Hinkel, Charlie Krueger, Jeff McNichols, Andrew Pryor, TC Manning, Ryan Briggs, Sean Davis. |
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Creighton Prep avenged an early season one-run loss to Westside by shutting out the Warriors to claim an 8-0 victory in the Championship Game of the Millard South Don Kraft Invitational Tournament on Saturday. The Junior Jays handed Husker signee Chris Williams his first loss of the season by jumping out to a four run lead in the first inning. Jeff McNichols and Kyle Kubat had the big blows in the inning; McNichols doubled in a run following an error that would have ended the inning, and Kubat followed with a two-run single. Starter Ryan Briggs (five innings) and McNichols (two innings) combined for a two-hitter. Westside committed four errors in the game. Williams went the distance for the Warriors, striking out ten. It was the second loss of the week for the #1 ranked Warriors, whose twenty-three game win streak ended with a 1-0 home loss to Papillion LaVista South on Tuesday, and the first shutout of the Warriors on the season.
Prep reached the title game with a 6-2 opening round win over Omaha Northwest and a 6-3 semifinal win over Millard West. With the three wins and Westside's defeat, the Junior Jays appear poised to take over the lead in the Wild Card race that runs through the end of District Tournaments.
In the third place game, Millard West blanked host Millard South, 8-0, behind a two-hitter by freshman Nate Griep.
In a game played in Lincoln at noon on Saturday, Northeast took fifth place in the tournament with a 9-5 win over East. Number five seed Millard North finished in last place in the tournament standings with a 6-5 loss in nine innings to Omaha Northwest Saturday morning at Millard West. The Huskies were led by Butler County signee Kyle Kinman who doubled, tripled and earned the win in relief. It was the fifth loss in seven games for the former Top Ten Mustangs (11-14).
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