Carter Allen hit two home runs, including the game-ending 2-run shot to propel the Kansas Wesleyan Coyotes to an 11-0 run-rule win over the Bethany Swedes on Friday at Dean Evans Stadium.
The game was played at 10 a.m. Friday due to high school games being played at the field in the afternoon, and the threat of inclement weather on Sunday forcing the teams to play early.
Wesleyan got out of a bases loaded jam by the Swedes in the top of the first and immediately responded as Jacob Williamson was hit by a pitch and Tyler Favretto walked setting up Garrett Garfield's 3-run homer to start the scoring.
The Coyotes left the bases loaded in the second on three walks, but could not score.
Allen got the scoring started in the third leading off the inning with a homer followed by a triple by Joe Finder. Frank Kelch, making his season debut, walked and Blake Dale drove in the second run of the inning with a fielder's choice. Eric Romero followed with an RBI triple to make it 6-0 Coyotes.
Finder reached on a Bethany error in the fifth and then scored on Kelch's groundout.
In the sixth the Coyotes added two more as Williams and Favretto walked to start the inning and two batters later Fernando Ruvalcaba hit a 2-run double down the line in left field to make it 9-0 Coyotes.
Wesleyan nearly ended it in the seventh. Pinch hitter Jackson Harriger stepped up and launched a ball down the line in left that easily cleared the fence, but was called foul by the umpire. Romero later singled in the inning, but the Coyotes could not push the game-ender across.
The Coyotes did end it in the eighth. Favretto led off the inning with a walk, his fifth walk of the day. Allen stepped up three spots later and launched a ball out to left center for a 2-run shot to end the game.
Meanwhile on the other side, the Coyote pitching staff was phenomenal. Starter Brett Maddock went five innings to get the win, holding Bethany to four hits and struck out 10, against four walks. Riley Gwin pitched two hitless innings with three strikeouts and Thalen Wright pitched an inning with two strikeouts.
Allen and Romero were the only two Coyotes with multiple hits. Allen and Garfield drove in three each.