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The Liberal (MO) varsity baseball team won Thursday's home non-conference game against New Heights Christian Academy (Joplin, MO) by a score of 18-8.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	R	H	E
NHCA	0	1	4	3	0	-	-	8	-	-
Liberal	1	0	3	11	3	-	-	18	-	-

Recap
Box Score
Matchup Info

Game Stats

New Heights Christian Academy (22-23)

New Heights Christian Academy

Batting

#	Athlete Name	Avg	PA	AB	R	H	RBI	2B
	Team Totals	.350	28	20	8	7	6	1
0	Smoke Ezell	.667	3	3	0	2	2	0
1	Jayce Walker	.667	4	3	2	2	0	0
3	Nick Pfeffer		0	0	2	0	0	0
8	Lincoln Smith	.000	3	2	0	0	0	0
9	Ben Thomas	.000	3	1	0	0	0	0
13	Josh Anderson	.000	3	1	1	0	0	0
15	Kelton Welch	.500	3	2	2	1	0	0
21	Austin Miller	.333	3	3	0	1	2	0
29	P. Thompson	.000	3	2	0	0	0	0
32	Caleb Evans	.333	3	3	1	1	2	1

New Heights Christian Academy

#	Athlete Name	BB	K	HBP	ROE	LOB	OBP	SLG	OPS
	Team Totals	4	5	4	1	5	.536	.400	.936
0	Smoke Ezell	0	0	0	0	2	.667	.666	1.334
1	Jayce Walker	1	1	0	0	1	.750	.666	1.417
8	Lincoln Smith	1	0	0	0	1	.333	.000	.333
9	Ben Thomas	0	0	2	1	0	.667	.000	.667
13	Josh Anderson	2	0	0	0	1	.667	.000	.667
15	Kelton Welch	0	0	1	0	1	.667	.500	1.167
21	Austin Miller	0	1	0	0	1	.333	.333	.666
29	P. Thompson	0	2	1	0	1	.333	.000	.333
32	Caleb Evans	0	1	0	0	3	.333	.666	1.000

New Heights Christian Academy

Baserunning

#	Athlete Name	SB	SBA
	Team Totals	2
1	Jayce Walker	2

New Heights Christian Academy

Fielding

#	Athlete Name	FP	TC	PO	A	E	DP
	Team Totals	.792	24	14	5	5	1
0	Smoke Ezell	.500	2	0	1	1	0
1	Jayce Walker	.667	3	0	2	1	0
2	Bo Sitton	1.000	4	3	1	0	0
8	Lincoln Smith	1.000	1	1	0	0	0
9	Ben Thomas	1.000	5	5	0	0	1
13	Josh Anderson	1.000	2	1	1	0	0
15	Kelton Welch	.250	4	1	0	3	0
21	Austin Miller	1.000	2	2	0	0	1
29	P. Thompson	1.000	1	1	0	0	0

New Heights Christian Academy

Pitching

#	Athlete Name	ERA	APP
	Team Totals	13.50	1
0	Smoke Ezell	15.27	1
13	Josh Anderson	14.00	1

New Heights Christian Academy

#	Athlete Name	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	BF	AB
	Team Totals	4.2	14	18	9	5	3	40	34
0	Smoke Ezell	3.2	11	14	8	1	2	29	27
13	Josh Anderson	1	3	4	2	4	1	11	7

New Heights Christian Academy

#	Athlete Name	OBA	OBP	WP	HBP	#P	SB
	Team Totals	.412	.500	3	1	145	3
0	Smoke Ezell	.407	.448	0	1	97	2
13	Josh Anderson	.429	.636	3	0	48	1

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Liberal (22-23)

Liberal has not entered stats for this game.

Game Story

Missouri High School Baseball - College Heights Christian loses to Liberal

April 20, 2023: Liberal, MO 64762

The Liberal Bulldogs baseball team scored 18 runs and limited the visiting College Heights Christian Cougars to 8 in the Bulldogs non-league victory on Thursday.

The Bulldogs (6-5) will now prepare for their match against Jasper (Jasper, MO). The Eagles go into the non-league match with a 5-4 record.

The Cougars (5-6) will now prepare for their match against Billings (Billings, MO). The Wildcats go into the non-league match with a 8-3 record.

NHCA @ Liberal Baseball Game Info

Thu., Apr. 20, 2023 @ 5p

Liberal High School

The Liberal (MO) varsity baseball team won Thursday's home non-conference game against New Heights Christian Academy (Joplin, MO) by a score of 18-8.

Rankings & Records

New Heights Christian Academy (22-23)

MO	Class
333	59

Overall	District	Home	Away	Win %	District %	RF	RA
6-11	1-3	4-5	2-6	.353	.250	117	156

Liberal (22-23)

MO	Class
192	10

Overall	District	Home	Away	Neutral	Win %	District %	RF	RA
12-9	1-1	8-4	3-4	1-1	.571	.500	182	154

Team Scoring Averages

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	R	H	E
New Heights Christian Academy	1.3	1.1	1.6	1.2	1.2	.9	1.2	.5	0	0	1.0	6.9	-	-
Liberal	1.0	.8	1.2	2.4	1.0	2.8	1.0	-	-	-	-	8.7	8.0	1.0

Team Stat Comparison

New Heights Christian Academy		Liberal
.282	Batting Average	-
.416	On Base Percentage	-
.332	Slugging Percentage	-
.867	Fielding Percentage	-
.000	Win Loss Percentage	-

Team Leaders

New Heights Christian Academy		Liberal	National Avg.
#15 Kelton Welch.438	Batting Average	-	.243
#1 Jayce Walker.569	On Base Percentage	-	.375
#15 Kelton Welch.500	Slugging Percentage	-	.307
#9 Ben Thomas1.000	Fielding Percentage	-	.861
#1 Jayce Walker0	Win Loss Percentage	-	.543

Common Opponents

School	Common Opp. Rec.		School	Common Opp. Rec.
New Heights Christian Academy	3-5		Liberal	5-2

Date	Away	Home	Result	Date	Away	Home	Result
3/21/23	El Dorado Springs	New Heights Christian Academy	(W) 15-11	5/5/23	Liberal	El Dorado Springs
4/3/23	New Heights Christian Academy	Purdy	(L) 19-4	4/7/23	Purdy	Liberal	(L) 15-9
				4/13/23	Liberal	Purdy
4/4/23	New Heights Christian Academy	McAuley Catholic	(W) 11-5	5/4/23	McAuley Catholic	Liberal	(L) 19-10
4/17/23	New Heights Christian Academy	Lockwood	(W) 13-7	4/14/23	Liberal	Lockwood	(W) 12-10
4/22/23	New Heights Christian Academy	Billings		5/22/23	Liberal	Billings	(W) 4-3
4/25/23	New Heights Christian Academy	Riverton	(L) 13-9	4/27/23	Riverton	Liberal	(W) 13-11
4/25/23	New Heights Christian Academy	Riverton
5/1/23	East Newton	New Heights Christian Academy	(L) 11-1	4/19/23	Liberal	East Newton
5/9/23	East Newton	New Heights Christian Academy
5/2/23	Jasper	New Heights Christian Academy	(L) 7-4	4/25/23	Jasper	Liberal	(W) 9-2
5/8/23	Diamond	New Heights Christian Academy	(L) 8-7	4/17/23	Diamond	Liberal	(W) 8-5

Record Breakdown

New Heights Christian Academy (22-23)		Liberal (22-23)
6-11	Overall	12-9
1-3	League	1-1
5-8	Non-League	10-7
0-1	Head to Head	1-0
3-5	Common Opponent	5-2
4-5	Home	8-4
2-6	Away	3-4
0-0	Neutral	1-1
0-0	Playoff	1-1
6-10	In-State	10-7
0-1	Out-of-State	2-2