Mountain View snaps Royals' six-game winning streak

The Mountain Home Royals had their win streak snapped at six last week by the Mountain View Toros, but they bounced back to sweep the Centennial Cannons and win eight of 10 games.

Royals 3, Senators 2

Royals 13, Senators 7

The Royals swept a league doubleheader from the Boise Senators on June 21 at Borah's Wigle Field in Boise. The Royals won the first game, 3-2, in eight innings before a 13-7 nightcap.

In the first game, both teams plated a run in the first inning. The Royals went up 2-1 in the fifth inning, but the Senators tied it at 2-2 in the sixth. Jesse Cobos scored what proved to be the winning run on a wild pitch in the top of the eighth inning.

Zach Petersen had two hits and drove in a run for the Royals in the first game. Teddy Reume and Derek Kellogg had singles and Jesse Cobos had a double.

Levi Abrahamson picked up the win, throwing seven innings and striking out eight. Cobos earned the save with a scoreless eighth inning.

Mountain Home took the lead for good with six runs in the third inning of the second game and withstood a five-run fifth by the Senators that cut the Royals' lead to 8-7, with four runs in the bottom half of the inning. The added another run in the sixth to make it a 13-7 final.

Teddy Reaume and Cody Blakemore had the hot bats for the Royals in the second game, getting three hits each. Reume had a double and scored three runs and drove in one. Blakemore had four RBIs. Bailey Miller-Hodge had two hits, including a double, and also drove in a run. Derek Kellogg, David Welle, Zach Petersen, Jesse Cobos, Levi Abrahamson and Tyler McCall all had hits. Kellogg drove in two runs, Welle one, Petersen had a triple and Abrahamson had a double and scored two runs.

Zach Petersen picked up the win, giving up just two earned runs while striking out five batters in four and two-thirds innings. Jesse Cobos finished out the game with two and a third scoreless innings and three strikeouts.

Royals 12, Blackhawks 2

Royals 14, Blackhawks 4

The Royals hosted the Twin Falls Blackhawks in a non-league doubleheader last Monday, taking a pair of five-inning 10-run wins against the visitors from Canyon Ridge High School in Twin Falls.

In the first game, Mountain Home overcame a 2-1 deficit with two runs in the second, stretched the lead to 7-2 with four runs in the third and put the game out of reach with five runs in the fourth to win 12-2.

Kody Arellano, Teddy Reaume and Tyler McCall each had two hits in the first game. Arellano had a triple, drove in five runs and scored two, Reaume had a double and drove in two runs and scored two. McCall scored three runs. Levi Arahamson and Zach Petersen also had hits. Abrahamson scored twice and Bailey Miller-Hodge also drove in a run.

Cody Blakemore scattered four hits and struck out four in five innings to pick up the win.

The Royals scored four runs in the first two innings of the nightcap to jump out to an 8-2 lead, added five more in the fourth and ended it by the 10-run rule with a run in the bottom of the fifth, winning 14-4.

Kody Arellano had two hits in the nightcap including a triple, scored two runs and knocked in one. Esmer Castillo, Jayden Sexton, Josh Sheffield, David Welle and Kyle Acarregui also had hits. Castillo drove in three runs, Sexto added two, Sheffield and Welle both had doubles and RBIs and Acarregui also drove in a run.

Teddy Reaume threw three innings to pick up the win, with relief held from Shae Sterling and Jesse Cobos.

Royals 16, Stars 5

Royals 16, Stars 7

The Royals traveled to Ontario, Ore., last Tuesday and swept a non-league doubleheader from the Treasure Valley Stars, winning the first game 16-5 and the nightcap 16-7.

The Royals pounded out 15 hits in the first game, an eight-run seventh being the big difference in the game.

Jayden Sexton and Tyler McCall both had three hits in the first game. Sexton drove in three runs, while McCall scored two and drove in one. Curran Price, Esmer Castillo, Josh Sheffield and Jace Bennett all had two hits. Price had a double and drove in three runs, Castillo had a double and two RBIs and scored three times. Bennett had a double, scored twice and had an RBI. Sheffield scored twice and drove in one run. Derek Kellogg also had a hit and David Welle and Kyle Acarregui also drove in runs.

Tyler McCall went the distance to get the win, scattering six hits, striking out six and walking nine.

Leading 6-1 after three in the second game, the Royals plated seven in the fourth, one in the fifth and two in the sixth to win going away, 16-7.

Cody Blakemore, Zach Petersen, Tyler McCall, Kody Arellano and Shae Sterling all had two hits.Blakemore doubled twice and drove in two runs. Petersen had a double ad triple and two RBIs and scored three times. McCall had an RBI, Sterling had a double and scored twice and Arellano also scored twice. Bailey Miller-Hodge had a hit and drove in four runs, Levi Abrahamson had a hit and scored twice and Teddy Reaume also had a hit and an RBI.

Jesse Cobos picked up the win, giving up just one earned run in four and two-thirds innings. Bailey Miller-Hodge pitched two-plus innings of scoreless relief.

"We finally started to find our swings and put solid contact on the baseball," said Royals coach Michael Hobgood. "We're still pitching it and fielding it very well also. We have also started to establish some key role-player-type guys and the ability to turn it on from pitch one."

Toros 6, Royals 5

Toros 13, Royals 3

The Royals saw their win streak snapped at six Thursday when they dropped a league doubleheader to the Mountain View Toros at Royals Field in Mountain Home, losing the first game 6-5 and dropping the nightcap 13-3 in six innings.

Mountain Home jumped out to an early lead in the first game and led 5-3 after five innings, but the Toros scored a single run in the sixth and added two more in the top of the seventh to win 6-5.

The Royals managed just four hits in the first game, with Shae Sterling getting two of them, including a triple. He also scored two runs.

Tyler McCall and Jace Bennett had the other two hits and Cody Blakemore knocked in a run. Levi Abrahamson went the distance and suffered the loss, despite giving up just two earned runs.

A nine-run fifth inning by Mountain View in the nightcap wiped out a 3-2 Royals lead, and the Toros ended it with two more runs in the sixth to win 13-3 by the 10-run rule. The Royals' runs all came in the third.

Shae Sterling had a double and a triple and knocked in a run in the second game. Zach Petersen also had two hits and Josh Sheffield had one hit. Curran Price, who came on in the fifth in relief of Royals starter Bailey Miller-Hodge, suffered the loss.

"The first game, we controlled that one all the way through, and then we just couldn't execute defensively, we kind of fell asleep at the plate," Hobgood said. "Mountain View's always scrappy, and we let a scrappy team kind of claw back on us,"

Royals 8, Cannons 0

Royals 8, Cannons 7

Mountain Home returned to the win column Saturday, taking two games from the Centennial Cannons at Royals Field in Mountain Home. The Royals won the first game 8-0 and held on for an 8-7 win in the second game.

Zach Petersen threw a four-hit shutout in the first game, striking out five batters. Shae Sterling and Levi Abrahamson both had two hits, including doubles, and scored two runs, and Abrahamson had two RBIs. Tyler McCall drove in three runs, two on a suicide squeeze bunt.

The Royals struck for five runs in the first inning of the second game, but Centennial scored two in the first and three in the second inning to tie the game at 5-5.

Mountain Home regained the lead with an unearned run in the fourth and added two more in the seventh on Shae Sterling's two-run triple, which was enough to withstand a two-run rally by the Cannons in their half of the seventh to hang on and win 8-7.

Kody Arellano had two hits in the second game for the Royals. Shae Sterling had a two-run triple, Esmer Castillo had an RBI-double and Zach Petersen had an RBI-single and scored two runs. Kyle Acarregui also scored two runs. Cody Blakemore went the distance for the win, scattering seven hits.

"I loved the way we came and put those runs up early, and then continued to pile on," Hobgood said.

The sweep of the Cannons improved the Royals to 18-11 overall, and 6-4 in league play.

They have a busy week this week, starting with a league doubleheader Monday at Fort Boise against the Boise Seminoles.

They play in the Firecracker Invitational at Borah's Wigle Field. They face the Pocatello Rebels at 9 a.m. Thursday before taking on the Green River Badgers at 11:45 a.m.

On Friday, the Royals play Prosser, Wash., at 11:45 a.m. at the Centennial High School Field in Meridian. On Saturday, they have an 11:45 a.m. game against Spanish Springs at the Capital High field in Boise and face Wood River at 5:15 p.m. later that day at Wigle Field.

Sunday will see six games for places at two sites, with the opponents depending upon their records in the tournament.