On Saturday, June 21, Wagner’s Post 11 Junior Legion team traveled to Winner play two games. The first was against the team from Gregory. Colton Zephier was the starting pitcher and he had a rough first inning as he walked three and allowed one unearned run to score but he also struck out three to limit the damage.

Wagner would answer back in the top of the 2nd as Avery Medicine Bear led off with a single and would eventually come around to score on a Gregory error. In the bottom half of the inning, Gregory used three singles and a ground out to score two.

Wagner scored another run in the third after Beau Otte hustled out an infield single, stole second, and then scored on a Dominic Doom single. Gregory came back with another run off a single and an error and one add another in the fourth off of two errors to take a 5-2 lead into the 5th inning.

The 5th would be Wagner’s big inning as we would score five runs to take the lead. Otte reached on a fielding error followed by consecutive hits from Zephier and Doom, with Doom’s being an RBI double. Trey Segura walked and Medicine Bear singled to bring home a run. Jamian Medicine Horn also walked home a run and Paxton Kuhlman had an RBI ground out to finish the scoring, after which Wagner held a 6-5 lead.

Zephier got two outs in the 5th inning before reaching his pitch limit. Doom then came on to strike out a batter and preserve the one run lead. And after a scoreless top of the 6th for Wagner, Doom would close out the win as he struck out the final batter with a runner at third base to secure the first win for the junior legion.

Zephier earned the win as he pitched 4.2 innings, giving up five runs, three earned, on four hits and four walks while striking out five. Doom earned the save as he gave up one hit and a walk while striking out three.

With some inexperienced pitchers on the mound in the second game versus Winner, Wagner would fall by a score of 15-0. Dominic Doom had the lone hit for Wagner while Otte, Zephier, and Kuhlman each drew walks.

Doom started on the mound and would not survive the first inning as he gave up six runs, though only two were earned. He gave up one hit, walked three and struck out one. Segura, Medicine Horn, and Brannon Bruguier allowed the other nine runs giving them up on a combined nine walks and five hits with Medicine Horn getting a K.