Atlantic falls to Humboldt 3-0

The Atlantic Trojans dropped their Class 3A Quarterfinal game to Humboldt by the final of 3-0 on Monday night. Humboldt used solid pitching and defense to keep the Atlantic offense cold and got a couple timely hits to push away for the win.

Humboldt opened the scoring in the 3rd with a one-out single by Carlie Thompson followed by a double by Jori Hajek. On the Hajek double Atlantic’s Karsyn Rush made a great pick-off throw to Olivia Engler who then fired it to home to pick off Thompson at the plate. That didn’t stymie the Wildcat attack though as Maddy Lange roped a double that brought Hajek home from second.

The Wildcats would later add two more runs in the 5th. Jori Hajek hit a one-out single followed by an RBI double from Mady Lange to bring her home. Ellie Jacobsen followed with a single to bring Lange home and push the Wildcat lead to 3-0. Atlantic would stop any more damage by getting the final two out of the inning after an error and stranding two Wildcat runners. But that was more than enough damage done for Humboldt to get the win.

Atlantic went three up and three down in the 6th and managed one hit in the 7th from Kennedy Goergen before two straight 4-3 ground-outs ended the game.

Ally Anderson took the loss in the circle allowing 3 runs on 8 hits with 3 strikeouts, no walks, and one hit batter. Ellie Jacobsen forced Atlantic into a number of fly outs and picked up the win. She allowed no runs on just two hits with 2 strikeouts, 3 walks, and 1 hit batter.

Atlantic falls to 30-6 on the season and will now play in the consolations tomorrow afternoon against Benton Community. We’ll have pregame at 2:00pm and first pitch at 3:00pm for that game on Dodger Diamond at Harlan Rogers Park.

Humboldt improved to 31-3 and will move on to the Semifinals to face Davenport Assumption on Wednesday at 11:30am.