Boonville’s Junior Babe Ruth traveling team had a tough road over the weekend while playing a doubleheader on Saturday at Hannibal and then turning around and playing another doubleheader on Sunday against Macon.

In the doubleheader on Saturday against Hannibal, Boonville dropped the first game by a score of 5-4 but came back and won the second game 6-3 for the split. Then, on Sunday against Macon’s Junior Legion baseball team, Boonville fell in two straight games by the scores of 11-7 and 10-5.

While playing at Mark Twain High School on Saturday, Hannibal jumped out on top with one run in the bottom-half of the first only to have Boonville rally back with one run in each of the second and third innings of play to go up by a score of 2-1.

Unfortunately for Boonville, they never led again in the ballgame as Hannibal came back and plated four more runs in the bottom-half of the third to make it 4-2. Then, after both teams failed to score in the fourth inning, Boonville came back and tacked on two more runs in the fifth to cut the lead to one at 5-4.

Both teams failed to score in the sixth with Boonville again putting up a goose egg in the seventh for the loss.

Grant Davis took the loss on the mound for Boonville by giving up five runs on five hits while striking out five.

Devon Hohensee led the hitting attack in the game for Boonville with two singles.

Of course the second game was a different story with Boonville pushing across one run in the first and two again in the top-half of the fourth to go up by a score of 3-0. Then, after Hannibal plated two runs in the bottom-half of the fourth, Boonville came back and tacked on three in the fifth to lead by a score of 6-2. Meanwhile, in the sixth inning, Hannibal plated another run to cut the lead in half.

Kyle VanderLinden picked up the complete-game victory for Boonville by striking out eight batters and giving up three runs on five hits and one walk.

Boonville also out-hit Hannibal 8-5, with Kellen Kempf going 2-for-4 with two singles and two RBIs.

In the games on Sunday, Macon Junior Legion broke out on top with two runs in the bottom-half of the first only to have Boonville rally back with one run in the second and three again in the third to go ahead by a score of 4-2.

Of course the game was back and forth after that with Macon exploding for five runs in the bottom-half of the third to go up 7-4 while Boonville sent three runs across in the fourth to tie the game at 7-all. Meanwhile, after both teams failed to score in the fifth inning, Macon came back and tacked on four more runs in the sixth for the victory.

Harrison Weathers took the loss on the mound for Boonville.

Kellen Kempf led the hitting attack in the game for Boonville with a single, triple and one RBI.

In the second game of a doubleheader, Boonville put up one run in the top-half of the second to tie the game at 1-all. However, in the bottom-half of the second, Macon rallied back with six runs to go up by a score of 7-1. Then, after Boonville sent two more runs across in the third and one again in the fourth to cut the lead to three at 7-4, Macon came back and tacked on three more runs in the fifth to push the lead back up to six at 10-4.

Of course Boonville could come up with only one more run after that in the sixth to suffer the loss.

Devon Hohensee took the loss on the mound for Boonville by giving up 10 runs on seven hits and four walks while striking out four.

Kyle VanderLinden went 3-for-3 with two singles, one double and two RBIs.

Boonville’s Junior Babe Ruth Traveling team will play next on Tuesday, June 17th at Moberly starting at 6 p.m. Then, on Thursday, June 19th, Boonville will travel to Eldon for a doubleheader starting at 6.

See Monday's Boonville Daily News for the rest of the story.