Fishers High School

The #7 Fishers Tigers Varsity Baseball Team (4-0/1-0) defeated #17 Zionsville Eagles 4-3 to start HCC play. The Tigers manufactured 1 run in the 1st to take an early 1-0 lead. Deagan Repp led off the game with a walk. After a pitch, the Eagles pitcher attempted to pickoff Repp, but Repp was breaking on 1st movement and stole 2nd. Huston Dunn followed with a 2-strike groundball to the right side to advance Repp to 3rd. Zander Carnahan plated Repp with a 2-strike RBI groundout. The Eagles responded quickly with a loud bottom of the 1st inning. After the dust settled, 8 batters accounted for 4 hits and 3 runs to give the Eagles a 3-1 lead. The Tigers starting pitcher Owen Sanders (2-0) settled down after the big 1st inning and retired 12 of the next 14 batters. Sanders did not allow a hit after the 1st, allowing only 2 base runners on walks, and was helped with an outfield assistant from Trevor Hall throwing out a runner at the plate on an attempted sacrifice fly. Repp generated offense on his own in the 3rd inning. After a 2-out walk, Repp once again took off on 1st movement to steal 2nd. This time the pickoff throw sailed down the right field line allowing Repp to score all the way from 1st to cut the Eagles lead down to 3-2. Carnahan tied the game at 3 with a leadoff homerun in the 4th that hit the top of the left field fence and bounced over. The homerun was Carnahan’s 1st of the season. Hall reached on an infield single later in the inning and advanced to 3rd when Carter Strole’s flyball was dropped in right field. Jase Ruggles picked up the game winning RBI with a perfectly executed safety squeeze to score Hall. Sanders earned his 2nd win of the season with another quality start pitching 5 innings allowing 3 earned runs on 4 hits while striking out 3. Owen Lukac pitched the 6th inning in relief and was nasty striking out the side. Carnahan earned his 2nd save of the season pitching a scoreless 7th recording 2 strikeouts. Carnahan led the Tigers with 2 RBI and a homerun. Hall and Luke Cherry both contributed 2 singles. The Tigers will host this same Zionsville Eagles team on Friday night for Game 2 of the HCC Series.