PERRYSBURG – The big question for Perrysburg’s baseball team was answered quickly Tuesday afternoon at
Leyland Field.
The Yellow Jackets were coming off Monday’s 22-14 slugfest victory over Northern Lakes League rival
Anthony Wayne, and veteran head coach Dave Hall was wondering how the Yellow Jackets would respond in a
non-league game against Wauseon.
The answers came quickly in the first inning as sophomore Noah English threw 12 pitches, setting down
Wauseon in order.
In the bottom of the first, Luke Borer continued his hard hitting, leading off the inning with a laser
beam triple to center field.
English finished with a one-hit shutout and the Yellow Jackets pounded out 12 hits in a 10-0 victory. The
game was called in the sixth inning due to the mercy rule.
“I was happy with that, because I was scared a little bit,” Hall said. “When you lead off with a triple,
that takes the pressure off.
“They continued to hit and it’s nice to see that,” he continued. “Sometimes we don’t come out after a
game (Monday) like that and play like we should.”
Perrysburg, 10-3, 3-0 in the NLL, returns to league play this afternoon, hosting Napoleon. Wauseon is
7-7.
English threw 75 pitches in six innings of work, striking out nine, including the last two outs of the
game. He walked two and pitched 5 1/3 innings of no-hit baseball before Wauseon’s Jason Conrad had a
hard-hit single into right-center field.
“My fastball was really going, with a few curveballs and sliders,” English said. “I looked up (at the
scoreboard) in the fifth inning and saw I had no hits. I wasn’t nervous, I was still confident.
“It was a good hit,” he added about Conrad’s single.
English also helped himself starting a double play after walking the leadoff batter in the third inning.
He struck out at least one batter in five of the six innings, and had seven strike outs in the last
three innings.
“He throws strikes for the most part,” Hall said. “We used a lot of pitchers Saturday and Monday. We
needed a good outing and he gave it to us.”
“I just want to play my own game and keep pitching,” English said.
Borer, who hit four home runs and drove in 10 runs in the win over AW, finished with three hits, an RBI,
two runs scored and a stolen base.
Due in part to three Wauseon errors, the Yellow Jackets scored twice in the first inning.
Borer’s RBI single made it 3-0 in the second.
Perrysburg sent six batters to the plate in the third inning, but could only push across one run on
English’s RBI double.
In the fourth inning, Cameron Githens hit a two RBI triple and Nate Ball, who was 6-of-6 in the AW win,
hit a sacrifice fly to make it 7-0.
Cole Hamby’s ground ball out plated the Yellow Jackets eighth run in the fifth inning.
Perrysburg closed out the game in the sixth inning. Andrew Toffler’s RBI single made it 9-0 and Ben
Boros’ double scored the 10th run.
“I just like consistency. In the last two days we have scored in 13 straight innings,” Hall said.