MONTAGUE — Montague's two starting pitchers - Eli Petersen and Bryton Belinger - continued sparkling starts to their seasons Tuesday, lifting the Wildcats to a West Michigan Conference Lakes doubleheader sweep of Fremont.
Petersen threw his second consecutive one-hit shutout in the opener, a 4-0 Montague win. He struck out 12 and walked two. No Packer got as far as second base in the game.
Cole Herremans opened the scoring in game one with a two-run double, and the Wildcats added two more runs in the sixth inning when Fremont pitches found their way to the backstop.
Game two went to Montague, 10-7, but the score was somewhat misleading as Belinger had a great outing on the mound, throwing six shutout innings. Belinger struck out 11 and walked only one, permitting just five hits.
Belinger was nearing his pitch count going into the seventh and was lifted, and Fremont was able to put seven runs on the board before Connor McKeown came in to get the save with a strikeout.
The Wildcats grabbed an early lead on an Eli Pendell RBI single and added on in the late innings. Belinger had two hits, one of them a double, and two RBI, and Jack Degen, Robby Smith and Fletcher Thommen each also got two hits.
