Burlington Beats Clinton For Second Straight Night

Clinton, IA - Burlington's offense came out firing, scoring four in the first and eventually building a 10-0 lead after the top of the fifth. The team worked 14 walks in the game. 

Everybody reached in the first inning, beginning on a Cole Yearsley (Winthrop) walk. Caleb Klein (SCC) reached on a fielder's choice.

Corey Boyette (Lipscomb) also walked and Kooper Schulte (Iowa) reached on an error at third. Boyette was out between second and third on the error. 

Owen Nowak (McHenry) smashed his third homerun of the season to make it 3-0. 

Caleb Seibers (Olney Central) answered the big homer with a slow-roller in the infield. A throwing error not only allowed him to reach, but get to second. 

Kila Teixeira (Hawaii-Pacific) walked to keep the inning going.

Danny Rollins (Murray State) smashed a double to make it 4-0. It was Rollins' third double of the year. 

The Bees tacked on one more in the second beginning on a Boyette double. It was his sixth double of 2025. 

 Nowak, Seibers and Texieria all worked walks in a row to bring Boyette home. 

The team kept the pedal to the metal in the third with three more runs. Jake Miller (SCC) kicked off the flurry with a single.

Yearsley walked and Miller stole third. 

Boyette flew out to score one. He finished 1 for 4 with a run, RBI and walk. 

Yearsley went to second on a wild pitch. Schulte came up with an infield single. 

Nowak's great day continued with an RBI single. Seibers followed with an RBI single of his own. It was his 42nd RBI of the year, good for fifth in the league. 

After a shutout fourth, the team scored two more in the fifth. Klein began the inning with a walk. He stole second and moved to third on an error. 

Schulte hit an RBI single. It was his 43rd RBI, which is second in the league. It made the game 10-0.

Clinton scored four in the sixth and one in the eighth. 

Schulte kept his great game going with a double to open the ninth. 

Nowak followed with a single. He finished 3 for 4, with four RBI. 

Seibers worked a walk to load the bases. Teixeira brought home one with a sacrifice fly and made it 11-5. 

Colten Clarahan (SCC) got the start and went for his longest outing of the year. He tossed five shutout innings to open the outing, including sitting down the first 14 batters. He got the win.

Kyle Smith (UHSP) tossed 2.1 innings of one run ball. Braeden Sunken (Maryville) threw the ninth and gave up no runs.

Camden Clewett got the loss. 

Burlington moves to 7-8 against Clinton and 4-3 at NelsonCorp Field.

Clinton travels to Illinois Valley (29-22, 17-8) to play at 4:05 p.m.

Burlington returns home to play the Quincy Doggy Paddlers (15-35, 6-21). The game starts at 2:00 p.m.