Centerville -- A four-game sweep in which the pitching staff gave up only five runs allowed Indian Hills to move its season record above .500 as the Falcons picked up four wins against visiting Dakota County (MN) on Friday and Saturday.
And the Falcons needed that solid pitching because their bats really came alive only once in the four contests.
That was in the first game on Saturday when IHCC pounded out 13 hits and thrashed Dakota County, 12-1, in five innings.
The second game that day saw five IHCC pitchers combine on a five-hitter in a 3-2 win that was accomplished on Levi Grassley's walk-off homer in the bottom of the 7th inning.
On Friday, coach Cam Walker got solid outings from his top two starters, Jordan Piche and Cashtyn DeLeeuw, in a sweep, winning by scores of 2-1 and 5-1.
Piche overcame a somewhat shaky start, giving up a run in the 1st before he settled down and threw five shutout innings. Jake Stalzer finished up with a perfect 7th inning.
Piche walked two and fanned five while allowing only five hits in picking up his 5th win in a row.
Jason Bonilla's long home run with one out in the 3rd tied the score at one and the eventual game-winning run scored that inning on an error on a ball hit by Guillermo Cruz. Jeremy Delgado doubled and scored when the DCTC third baseman couldn't come up with Cruz's grounder.
Two of the three IHCC hits came in that inning; Cruz singled in the 6th, but was left stranded at 3rd.
DeLeeuw went the first four innings in game two Friday and struck out eight while pitching three-hit shutout ball. Darwin Miranda went the final three innings, giving up two hits and a rur.
A four-run 4th started the scoring for IHCC. Arias and Adam Deneke had the only hits in the inning as the Falcons took advantage of three walks and an error. Delgado's double drove in the final run in the 4th.
Grassley's homer in the final inning on Saturday made a winner of A.J. McElderry who pitched one inning of relief. He followed Sam Ross, Anthony Gagliardi, Tyler Sparger and Jake Stalzer to the mound. The quintet combined to give up just five hits and two runs while striking out eight.
IHCC trailed 2-0 after 5 1/2 innings. Delgado had a leadoff double and Taylor Ostrich drew a one-out walk before Arias tied the score at 2-all with a two-run double. Delgado had two hits.
In game one, Matt Lashlee benefited from the Falcons' best offensive game of the series in picking up the win. Lashlee went all five innings, allowed three hits and the lone run with a walk and a half-dozen strikeouts in his best performance of the spring.
Indian Hills scored two runs in the 1st and then exploded for nine runs in the 3rd. They sent 13 men to the plate in the big inning.
Ostrich's homer, two doubles by Arias and one by Deneke and a triple by Francis Marcelo were the big hits in the inning. Eight of the nine hitters in the lineup had at least one hit with Arias getting three and Kevin Arroyo, Grassley and Bonilla picking up two each.
Indian Hills is now 18-15 and has won five in a row and eight of its last nine games. The pitching staff has given up a total of 14 runs in those nine games.
The Falcons return to conference play in a mid-week doubleheader at Southwestern CC on Wednesday. They will host league-leading Iowa Western in a four-game series next weekend.
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