Written By Cody Rose 

The Union City Bears baseball team was back in action on Thursday afternoon, traveling to Cochranton to take on the Cardinals in a region game. Steven Klakamp would lead the way for the Bears, going three-for-four, and driving in four runs with a run scored, as the Bears would take down the Cardinals 11-9, improving to 5-10 (4-10) on the season. The Bears will be back on the field on Monday afternoon, taking on the Eisenhower Knights in another region game. 

Game stats:

Union City:

Batting:

2B/3B Miles McCaslin – 1/4 walk, two RBI 

RF/P Quinlan Magee – 1/3 walk, run, RBI

C Trevin Capela – 0/2 three walks, run

SS/P Daithin Kent – 1/2 two walks, run

RF Joseph Wolf – 0/1

CF Steven Klakamp – 3/4 run, four RBI 

1B/SS Bryce Drayer – 1/4

3B/2B Aidan Shuman – 1/4 two runs, RBI

P/1B Luke Racop – 1/3 walk, run, RBI

LF Wyatt Post – 1/2 walk, two runs 

DH Desmond Pieper – 1/1 run

CR Mason Wienczkowski – run

Pitching:

SP Luke Racop – 5.0 IP, 5 K, 1 BB, 8 hits, 8 R, 4 ER

RP Daithin Kent – 0.1 IP, 0 K, 0 BB, 2 hits, 0 R, 0 ER

RP Quinlan Magee – 1.2 IP, 3 K, 1 BB, 1 hit, 1 R, 0 ER

Cochranton:

Batting:

SS/P Isaiah Long – 2/4 two RBI

RF Ayden Goodge – 0/1

3B Brayden Burnette – 2/4

P/LF Walker Carroll – 1/3 walk, run

1B Jack Rynd – 1/4 RBI

LF/RF/P Ben Field – 1/4

C Blake Foulk – 1/2 two runs

2B Bryce McDonough – 1/4 three runs, RBI

RF/SS Andrew Albert – 2/3 walk, run, two RBI 

CF Trent Hoban – 0/3 two runs

Pitching:

SP Walker Carroll – 5.0 IP, 11 K, 3 BB, 6 hits, 5 R, 4 ER

RP Isaiah Long – 1.1 IP, 0 K, 5 BB, 5 hits, 6 R, 5 ER

RP Ben Field – 0.2 IP, 0 K, 1 BB, 0 hits, 0 R, 0 ER