Kars defeats Ottawa Valley 10-2 - WITH DETAILS

The Kars Aces beat the Ottawa Valley As 10-2 in GOFL action on Thursday night in Carp.

Cory Alkerton had the pitching win while brother Matt hit two homers. Adam Rueckwald was tagged with loss.

from Chad Milne

Thursday night in Carp, Kars Aces showed why they lead the league in runs scored, pounding out a big 10-2 win over the Ottawa Valley A’s. Cory Alkerton got the win for Kars. Adam Rueckwald was tagged with the loss, while Todd Wilson saw action in relief for the A’s.

Kars went to work quickly, scoring a run in the 1^st inning after loading the bases with one out. With Nick Ellis and Kristian Knapp aboard on walks and after Cory Alkerton reached on a passed ball third strike, Chad Milne hit a perfectly placed high fly into right-centre field that managed to drop in between three A’s players, scoring Ellis. Rueckwald was able to avoid further damage by inducing a groundout and getting a strikeout to end the inning with the bases still loaded.

Kars then exploded for nine runs in the 2^nd inning, with every player except one registering at least one hit and one run. Matt Alkerton started the inning with a huge homerun to left field that landed somewhere in the middle of the second diamond. Jordan Adams then singled and was sacrificed to second by Ellis. The next six Kars’ batters all registered a hit, with RBIs going to Cory Morrison, C. Alkerton (2), Milne, and Danny Powers. After Powers’ single, M. Alkerton came to the plate and mashed his second homerun of the inning, a 3-run line shot over the fence in left-centre field. Adams kept the hit parade going with his second hit of the inning, narrowly missing a homerun of his own, instead settling for a double off the top of the fence in left field. With Wilson on in relief, the next two Kars batters went down in order to end the inning.

C. Alkerton carried a perfect game into the 4^th inning, but lost it when Lindsay Medynski worked a walk with two out. The A’s broke through with two runs in the 5^th, but could get no closer as the Aces won 10-2.