The Mid-Prairie Golden Hawk baseball team saw their season draw to a close Tuesday in the semifinal round of the Class 2A District 11 tournament, 2-1 against Grandview Christian at Pleasantville. The Thunder’s only offense came in the first, plating two runs on a combo of balks and walks. From there, the Golden Hawks arms of seniors Brady Weber and Tatem Telfer shut out Grandview and kept the Hawks in the game. Mid-Prairie’s bats had a tough time against Thunder starter Austin Jordan who went the distance. The Hawks came alive down to their final three outs trailing by a pair when Cash Brown reached with a base hit, Blake Swart blasted a shot to the wall in right and Landry Gingerich drove in Brown with RBI ground out, leaving the tying run 90 feet away with just one out. The Hawks couldn’t find one more hit and lost by a single tally. Following the game, Golden Hawk head coach Kyle Mullet talked about his senior pitchers and the late rally for his club.

Mullet said, “We had an approaching going into the night and into the rally. Our guys did a tremendous job all the way through. It wasn’t that anything changed in that last inning. We just had some things come to us. We had a deep fly ball from Blake (Swart) that dropped. How many hard hit balls did we have early that didn’t? Went right to someone? Gentry (Bontrager) smoked that line drive at the end that was inches away from being a hit. Our guys were determined, but they were the whole way. They didn’t let up. Things just didn’t go our way. Brady (Weber) threw well, settled in. Telfer came in and did an excellent job. You have to be able to produce offensively.”

Weber and Telfer combined on seven innings of five hit ball from the mound, giving up two earned runs, walking five and striking out nine. Brown, Swart and Jason Heitman each had a hit, Brown scored the lone run and Gingerich had the RBI. Jordan struck out three allowed just one run on three hits in getting the win for Grandview. Tate Moulton and Thomas Childs drove in runs for the Thunder. Mid-Prairie wraps up their season at 16-13 and says goodbye to seniors Landry Gingerich, Brady Weber, Blake Swart, Conner Wiles, Tatem Telfer, and Jason Heitman.