Kurk’s first career home run is grandiose as Raiders open lengthy road trip with shutout
RUSHVILLE, Ill. — Colin Kurk’s home-run trot got interrupted.
The No. 9 hitter in the Quincy Notre Dame baseball team’s lineup, Kurk cracked what everyone believed to be a grand slam to left-center field in the top of the fifth inning Monday against Rushville-Industry. However, he pulled up rounding second as one umpire called it a ground-rule double.
The call was reversed, Kurk finished his home-run trot and the Raiders won 11-0 to kickstart a 10-game road trip.
The Raiders (10-1) grabbed a one-run in the first inning, doubled it in the third and made it 4-0 through four innings by taking advantage of free bases. QND walked eight times overall, got an RBI single from Brady Kindhart in the third and an RBI single from Mason Winking in the fourth.
The other runs were scored on Jake Schisler’s steal of home and Winking trotting home on a wild pitch.
In the fifth, two singles and an error loaded the bases before Jack Linenfelser cracked a bases-clearing double. A walk and an error reloaded the bases, and Kurk’s grand slam unloaded them. Kindhart went 3 for 4 and Dalton Miller went 2 for 4 as the Raiders had eight hits and capitalized on four Rockets errors.
Freshman Jackson Connoyer earned the victory, allowing five hits over five innings with six strikeouts and two walks.
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