Bloodhounds sweep Washington with extra inning win

Landes Williams goes 3-for-4 and gets win on mound in nightcap

FORT MADISON - The Fort Madison Bloodhounds moved to 7-2 on the year after a Monday sweep of Washington at home in Southeast Conference baseball action.

Landes Williams went 3-for-4 at the plate with an RBI including two doubles, while going seven innings on the mound, fanning nine in the Bloodhounds' 2-1 win in the opener.

Fort Madison trailed 1-0 going into the bottom of the seventh. Van Buren scored in the third when Isaac Vetter scored on a passed ball with two outs. Williams kept things close over the next four innings allowing just two hits through the seventh.

In the bottom half of the seventh, senior Matt Hopper reached on an error. Courtesy runner Brennan Ulik would come around to score when Williams laced an RBI two-out double to center after fouling off six pitches in a 12-pitch at-bat. The RBI tied the game at 1-1.

A ground out would end the seventh. Hopper would get the Demons 3-up, 3-down in the top of the 8th to set up an extra-inning win for the Hounds.

Reiburn Turnbull doubled to lead off the bottom half. Following a Tate Johnson strike out, Tanner Settles ground out moving Turnbull to third. Aidan Pennock would draw a walk and then Hopper would single to center, plating Turnbull with the game winner.

Kane Williams had the other hit for Fort Madison in the win. Williams is now hitting .406 on the year just .15 ahead of his brother Landes.

The Hounds rolled in the night cap behind the pitching of Pennock, Hopper, and freshman Luke Hellige. Kane Williams went 3 for 5 with 2 RBIs and a run scored. Turnbull went 2 for 4 with 3 RBIs and two runs scored in the onslaught. Tanner Settles was 3 for 4 with 3 RBIs and two runs scored.

Washington jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the top of the first inning, but the Hounds responded with two in the bottom half. The Demons would add a run in the top half of the second to make it 4-2 after two.

Fort Madison would erupt for six runs in the bottom of the third, highlighted by Settles' two-run single. The Hounds would put up four more in the bottom of the fourth as Pennock locked down the Demons to give the Hounds a 12-4 lead after four.

Washington would add two in the top of the fifth to cut the lead to 12-6 on Zeke Slagel's double off Hellige. Hellige would get the next batter and then retire the side in order in the top of the sixth.

Fort Madison would add four in the bottom of the sixth to invoke the 10-run rule. Cayden Barnes, Kane Williams, and Turnbull all had RBI singles in the frame. Tate Johnson would work a walk on four straight pitches to force in Landes Williams from third for the game winner.

Fort Madison (7-2, 4-1) hosts Mediapolis for a non-conference matchup Wednesday night in a single game 7 p.m. start.