Fort Calhoun Seniors go 0-for-2 at home

Pioneers drop Saturday's tourney games

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The Fort Calhoun Senior Legion fell to 6-5 overall this summer with an 0-for-2 Saturday showing at its home tournament.
The Pioneers lost games to South Sioux City (SSC) and Valparaiso, finishing fourth out of four teams. Post 348 started its home date with an 8-3 loss to SSC. The road foe scored two runs during the third inning, two in the fifth and four more in the sixth to take a commanding 8-0 lead.
Fort Calhoun finally earned its first, second and third runs during the bottom half of the sixth. Ty Hallberg and Zach Faucher led off with back-to-back singles before SSC recorded its first out on a pop fly.
So, with two runners on and one out, Justin Myer — who also pitched early in the game — stepped in and delivered a hard hit by the visitor's third baseman. The ball reached the outfield and Hallberg scored. An SSC error getting the ball back into the infield allowed Faucher to touch home, too.
Next, Post 348's Tylan Conner hit a dribbler to the right side that made its way past the second baseman when it hit the edge of the grass and stopped bounding through the infield. Tristan Fuhrman added a single, but the inning ended with a five-run Pioneer deficit — the amount coach Brandon Wynn's team would lose by.
Hallberg and Faucher again reached base in the seventh frame, but SSC earned the required outs necessary to force the tourney hosts into the third-place game against Valparaiso. The Pioneers dropped that game 4-2.
Wynn said Hallberg, his pitcher, threw “five solid innings” in defeat. A bright spot of the one-day tourney was the work of three Junior Legion players who played up at the Senior level, too.

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