Cyclones win 8-inning thriller at LC

Down to last strike in seventh, HCHS forces extra frame and wins 24th straight

 COUNCIL BLUFFS -- Down to its last out - then its final strike - the Harlan Community baseball team found a way to stay unbeaten one more time Tuesday night at Lewis Central.
 Trailing 6-5 in the top of the seventh, HCHS senior Joshua Cheek drew a two-out walk and stole second base - on a bang-bang play - with Nick Foss at the plate. Facing a 1-2 count, Foss then lined an RBI single past the shortstop to tie the score.
 One inning later, Dillon Sears’ sacrfice fly drove home Kyle Schmitz with the go-ahead run and Connor Bruck finished off LC with a 1-2-3 bottom of the eighth as the Cyclones prevailed 7-6.
 Ranked number one all season in Class 3-A, the defending state champions improved to 18-0 overall and 15-0 in the Hawkeye Ten, extending their remarkable winning streak to 24 games dating back to last July.
 The streak would end less than 24 hours later at Sioux City East (see separate story), but the Cyclones’ fifth one-run win of the year proved to be their most challenging and perhaps most satisfying yet. During one two-inning stretch vs. the Titans (12-6, 8-4 H-10), HCHS went from being down 3-0 to leading 5-3 to trailing 6-5.
 The freshman Bruck calmed the storm, limiting LC’s hard-hitting lineup to just one base runner over the last three innings and giving the Cyclone bats a chance to work their magic.

 
 

 

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