The Demon baseball team took the win last night 14-4 over Mid-Prairie on “Strikeout Cancer” night.

The Demons started pitching with Colin Steele, and it did not start the way any pitcher wants to start the game with a first pitch hit batsmen. Steele settled down after that and struck out two, but not before the first run for Mid-Prairie scored in the only inning for Steele.

The Demons took no time to retake the lead as they put two up in the first. The second inning brought in Matt Kuntz who pitched three shutdown innings, only facing 10 batters with three strikouts, Mid-Prairies Nick Stimson threw a 1-2-3 inning in the second, but was hit hard in the third making the Demons lead 8-1.

Stimson’s pick-off move caused havoc on the base path at the beginning of the game for the Demons, but they eventually found a way to keep up their aggressive base running.

Mid-Prairie found Washington’s weakness, the middle innings, as they put up three in the fifth on Kuntz to make the game a little closer, but Jonas Coblentz was no match for the Demons as they put up one in the fourth and five in the fifth to end the game in five innings.

Head coach Nathan Miller said the game was a full team effort.

“It was an outstanding game on all [areas]. There’s three parts pitching defense and offense, and we had all three parts going, and we had a couple bloop singles that kind of got through for us, a couple bounces that went our way,” Miller said. “We have seniors in the right spots right now that are playing well, we have a young group of sophomores that are starting to come into their role and into the system, and we want to see them continue to progress.”

Walker Breard went 2-3 with a double and a triple and a couple of RBI’s, while Jared Henry went 3-4 with four RBI’s including the game winning two in the fifth.

There was also $1,500 raised for the relay for life at the strikeout cancer event.