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T-R PHOTO BY ROSS THEDE - Marshalltown’s Dylan Eygabroad delivers to the plate during the fifth inning of game two against Des Moines Hoover on Thursday at the MHS diamond.

The Bobcats got just what they needed from Thursday’s home doubleheader against Des Moines Hoover.

The Marshalltown baseball team got two wins on a pair of complete-game pitching performances, beating the Huskies 10-0 in five innings in the opener and 11-1 in six innings in the nightcap.

It might not have been the ideal tune-up for a team like top-ranked Johnston, but picking up two victories was decidedly better than the alternative and the manner in which they did it was just how the Bobcats drew it up.

Will Van Buren needed just 50 pitches to get through all five innings of the first game, coming within one out of a no-hitter in the first game, and Dylan Eygabroad took all six frames on the mound while allowing just five hits in the nightcap.

“It was good to win two games at home but it certainly wasn’t easy,” said MHS head coach Steve Hanson. “We came out a little sluggish offensively and it took a while to get things going.

T-R PHOTO BY ROSS THEDE

“Fortunately we got solid pitching from Will Van Buren and Dylan Eygabroad. Both of those guys were around the plate and worked with a good tempo. After a doubleheader [Wednesday] night, getting two complete games is great for our pitching staff because we have another game [Friday] to finish off the week.”

Marshalltown (13-10) goes to Johnston today as a part of the Brent Prange Classic. The Bobcats will face Class 4A’s top-rated team at 4:45 p.m. in their only game of the two-day tournament.

“We’re in a very demanding stretch of the schedule and we have some guys who are a little dinged up, so it will be good to get to the weekend and have a couple of days to get healed up,” said Hanson.

MHS did a bulk of its damage in the latter stages of both lopsided wins, scoring eight times in the bottom of the fifth inning to finish off the first game and then seven times in the bottom of the sixth in game two to reach the 10-run threshold.

In the opener, Tate Kuehner went 2-for-2 with an RBI and three runs scored, while Joseph Harris was 2-for-2 with a double and three RBIs to lead the Bobcats offensively. Van Buren had an RBI groundout and a run-scoring single, and Blake Trowbridge had a bunt single, walked twice and scored twice.

T-R PHOTO BY ROSS THEDE

Van Buren finished with one walk, one hit batsman and four strikeouts. He hadn’t allowed a hit until Max Muhm hit a two-out double in the top of the fifth, but Muhm was erased on a successful pickoff attempt to end the inning.

Eygabroad struck out five, walked one and hit one batter in his five-hitter in the nightcap. The game was stuck in a scoreless tie before the Bobcats tallied four runs in the bottom of the fifth and another seven in the sixth.

Eygabroad, Wade Canaday, Harris, Carson Williams and Trowbridge each had one of the Bobcats’ five hits, while a trio of Hoover pitchers combined to issue nine walks and one hit batsman.

At Marshalltown

Game One

Marshalltown 10, Des Moines Hoover 0, 5 innings

DMH 000 00 — 0 1 2

MHS 101 08 — 10 7 0

Max Muhm, Teran Bates (5) and Ethan Rogers; Will Van Buren and Joseph Harris. W–Van Buren (2-1). L–Muhm. 2B–DMH: Muhm; MHS: Harris. LOB–DMH 1, MHS 4.

Game Two

Marshalltown 11, Des Moines Hoover 1, 6 innings

DMH 000 001 — 1 5 3

MHS 000 047 — 11 5 0

Dalton Davis, D’Ontraez Robinson (6), Nathan Morrisey (6) and Rogers; Dylan Eygabroad and Aidan DeVolder. W–Eygabroad (2-2). L–Davis. 2B–DMH: Jared Fischer, Morrisey, Davis. LOB–DMH 6, MHS 4.

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