The Frontenac Raiders fell for the first time this season in a battle of state champions on Saturday in Chanute. The Raiders, reigning Class 3A champions, fell to Wamego, the 2-time defending 4A state champions, 2-1 in a game suspended by rain in the sixth inning.
Wamego’s Peyton Hardenburger and Frontenac’s Avery Johnson combined for 22 strikeouts. Hardenburger pitched all six innings, striking out 13 batters and allowing just one run on one hit and three walks. Johnson pitched five innings, striking out nine and allowing two runs on five hits.
All three runs of the game came in the first inning. The Raiders scored first on a wild pitch, while Wamego scored two runs in the first when Hardenburger drove in a run on a groundout and Landri Adams drove in what would prove to be the winning run on an RBI double.
Grace McLaren picked up the only hit of the game for the Raiders, a single in the fourth inning. Mady Logiudici, Skylar Hutchinson and Hadley Goodwin reached on walks. Wamego’s Alana McCarthy earned two hits, including a double.
The Raiders are now 9-1 and played Girard in a road doubleheader on Monday.
Frontenac 100 000—1 1 0
Wamego 200 00 x–2 5 1
Avery Johnson and Maddie Call; Peyton Hardenburger and Rylee Stanley. W–Hardenburger, L–Johnson. 2B–WHS: Alana McCarthy, Landri Adams. 3B–WHS: Morgyn Evans.
