Out of the 3 Callaway Region institutions who have actually played the Course 4 No. 5 Southern Boone Eagles this period, the Fulton Hornets played the closes game of all.

Fulton couldn't get in the win column, shedding 4-1 to district challenger Southern Boone Monday at Southern Boone High School.

When Wyatt Wilfley hit an RBI single to 3rd base, the Hornets took the lead first in the top of the third inning.

During the bottom half of the 3rd, the Eagles linked it at 1 as Austin Evans lined an RBI solitary to.

Southern Boone took the lead while scoring the competition's final three runs in the 5th. Evans recorded his second RBI single on the day with a lining to center, and also Ryker Zimmerman plated two on his hard-hit single to center.

The Eagles and also Hornets had five hits each, though Fulton videotaped the only extra-base hit-- a Pedestrian Gohring double. Nonetheless, Fulton devoted 3 mistakes to Southern Boone's one.

Hornets starter Dusty Hagens was tagged with the loss. In 4 1/3 innings, he enabled 3 work on 3 hits as well as two strolls while striking out 8.

Eagles starter Carter Salter made the complete-game victory. The elderly enabled one run on 5 hits and a walk while setting out 7 in 7 innings.

With the outcome, Fulton was up to 9-7, while Southern Boone improved to 21-8.

"It was simply one inning that really reached us-- sort of seems to be our tail over the years with Southern Boone, I feel like," Fulton coach Jacob Lorentzen claimed. "However that's what occurs when you play excellent ball clubs.

"However the fifth inning there that, they racked up three operate on us. Started with an out and afterwards just a one swing where we really did not obtain the person out in the beginning. And after that some close pitches to stroll an individual the next batter, and we took Hagens out and also place a different arm in to encounter the top of the order.

"Didn't actually want him to see those guys for the third time. A couple of little knocks, as well as they know were a 3-1 game rather than a one-run video game. We had the lead for a little bit, and they came back and scored in that same fifty percent inning that we racked up, but all in all, it was really great. Truly good video game, I assumed."

Fulton will begin play in the Fulton Tournament, dealing with Moberly (12-9) in its initial pool play game at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at Mexico Secondary School. The Hornets won the initial two conferences this season, beating Moberly 5-2 Tuesday in Fulton as well as 3-1 in nine innings on April 11 in Moberly.

"I maintain stating it all year: They're a really enhanced team over the last pair of years," Lorentzen stated. "And it's, it's hard to defeat anyone three times no matter what. It's a little later game for us as well.

"However the fifth inning there that, they scored 3 runs on us. A pair of little knocks, as well as they recognize were a 3-1 video game instead of a one-run video game. We had the lead for a little bit, and they came back and racked up in that very same fifty percent inning that we racked up, however all in all, it was truly good. Really excellent video game, I believed."

"And it's, it's difficult to defeat anybody 3 times no matter what.