Waukon baseball team has season ended in district semifinals loss to Denver
The third of just three ... Waukon baseball freshman right fielder Ethan O’Neill puts a ball in play in the Indians’ 15-1 Class 2A District 5 semifinals loss to Denver in five innings Tuesday, July 10 in New Hampton. O’Neill belted a fifth-inning single for one of just three Indian hits in the contest, and he also hauled in a couple fly balls for outs in his postseason starting debut. View and find out how to purchase these photos and many more by clicking on the Photo Galleries link on this website.
The Waukon baseball team had its 2018 season brought to a close Tuesday, July 10 in the semifinal round of its Class 2A District 5 Tournament played at New Hampton. The Indians were matched up with a Denver team that featured the pitching talents of senior Zach Miller, who came into the game with a 5-1 season record and 0.72 earned run average (ERA) with a 73:7 strike-out-to-walk ratio over 48-2/3 innings.
Miller worked some of his mound magic against the Indians, limiting them to just three hits and striking out seven batters while the Indians were able to take him for a single earned run. It was, however, what Miller and his teammates did with their bats that really did the Indians in, as the Cyclones knocked around 15 hits and scored runs in every one of their four innings at the plate, including a six-hit, seven-run fourth inning for nearly half the Denver game tally and an addition to the scoreboard margin that forced an early end to the contest, a 15-1 Indian defeat in a mercy-rule five innings.
The game also matched the Indians up against a bit of familiarity, as Denver’s first baseman, junior Brock Farley, is the son of 1986 Waukon High School graduate Larry Farley and the grandson of Ione Farley of Waukon. Farley went one-for-three in the ballgame with a single to drive in two Denver runs and score another.
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