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Hardin County Benton

Cougars H

Rangers

The Benton (IL) varsity baseball team won Wednesday's home non-conference game against Hardin County (Elizabethtown, IL) by a score of 8-7.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	R	H	E
Hardin County	3	0	1	3	0	0	0	7	9	1
Benton	0	0	3	1	1	3	-	8	9	1

Final score provided by R. Hill.

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Game Stats

Hardin County (22-23)

Hardin County has not entered stats for this game.

Benton (22-23)

Benton

Batting

#	Athlete Name	Avg	PA	AB	R	H	RBI	HR
	Team Totals	.310	32	29	8	9	5	1
1	Lance Jerkins (Jr)	.000	3	2	1	0	0	0
3	Jacob Kinsman (Sr)	.500	4	4	0	2	1	0
5	Seth Tate, Jr. (Sr)	.500	4	4	0	2	1	0
7	Landon Croslin (Sr)	.500	3	2	1	1	1	1
11	Lukas Wilson (Sr)	.500	3	2	0	1	0	0
12	C. Rubenacker (Sr)	.000	4	4	1	0	0	0
14	Jaxon Payne (Jr)		0	0	2	0	0	0
22	Evan Munoz (Jr)	.500	4	4	2	2	0	0
25	Josh Owens (Jr)	.250	4	4	1	1	2	0
33	Nolan Schafer (Fr)	.000	3	3	0	0	0	0

Benton

#	Athlete Name	BB	K	HBP	ROE	LOB	OBP	SLG	OPS
	Team Totals	1	5	2	1	6	.375	.413	.789
1	Lance Jerkins (Jr)	0	1	1	0	1	.333	.000	.333
3	Jacob Kinsman (Sr)	0	0	0	0	1	.500	.500	1.000
5	Seth Tate, Jr. (Sr)	0	0	0	0	2	.500	.500	1.000
7	Landon Croslin (Sr)	1	0	0	0	1	.667	2.000	2.667
11	Lukas Wilson (Sr)	0	0	1	0	0	.667	.500	1.167
12	C. Rubenacker (Sr)	0	1	0	1	3	.000	.000	.000
22	Evan Munoz (Jr)	0	0	0	0	2	.500	.500	1.000
25	Josh Owens (Jr)	0	1	0	0	3	.250	.250	.500
33	Nolan Schafer (Fr)	0	2	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000

Benton

Baserunning

#	Athlete Name	SB
	Team Totals	3
3	Jacob Kinsman (Sr)	1
5	Seth Tate, Jr. (Sr)	1
22	Evan Munoz (Jr)	1

Benton

Fielding

#	Athlete Name	FP	TC	PO	A	E	DP
	Team Totals	.969	32	21	10	1	1
3	Jacob Kinsman (Sr)	1.000	2	1	1	0	0
5	Seth Tate, Jr. (Sr)	.667	3	0	2	1	1
7	Landon Croslin (Sr)	1.000	7	7	0	0	1
11	Lukas Wilson (Sr)	1.000	8	7	1	0	0
12	C. Rubenacker (Sr)	1.000	6	3	3	0	1
16	Brock Poole (So)	1.000	1	0	1	0	0
22	Evan Munoz (Jr)	1.000	1	1	0	0	0
23	Kaden Pryor (So)	1.000	2	0	2	0	0
25	Josh Owens (Jr)	1.000	2	2	0	0	0

Benton

Pitching

#	Athlete Name	ERA	W	W%	APP	SV
	Team Totals	6.00	1	1.000	1	1
7	Landon Croslin (Sr)		0		1	0
16	Brock Poole (So)	0.00	0		1	1
19	Collin Hill (Jr)	10.50	0		1	0
23	Kaden Pryor (So)	4.20	1	1.000	1	0

Benton

#	Athlete Name	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	HR	BF	AB
	Team Totals	7	9	7	6	5	7	1	35	29
16	Brock Poole (So)	1	0	0	0	0	2	0	3	3
19	Collin Hill (Jr)	2.2	4	4	4	4	3	1	16	12
23	Kaden Pryor (So)	3.1	5	3	2	1	2	0	16	14

Benton

#	Athlete Name	OBA	OBP	HBP	#P	SB
	Team Totals	.310	.429	1	133	2
16	Brock Poole (So)	.000	.000	0	11	0
19	Collin Hill (Jr)	.333	.500	0	63	0
23	Kaden Pryor (So)	.357	.438	1	59	2

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Game Story

Illinois High School Baseball - Benton sneaks past Hardin County

May 10, 2023: Benton, IL 62812

Spectators at Wednesday's non-league battle between the Benton Rangers (Benton, IL) and the visiting Hardin County Cougars (Elizabethtown, IL), saw Benton's baseball squad edge Hardin County by a count of 8-7.

Coming up next, the Rangers play the Vienna Eagles (Vienna, IL) in a non-league battle, on Friday, May 12. Benton will attempt to move on its 15-12 season record. The Eagles enter the battle with a 9-11 record after their 6-2 non-league loss to Massac County (Metropolis, IL).

The Cougars now possess a 15-5 record. They take the field next when they host Zeigler-Royalton for a non-league battle on Thursday, May 11. Hardin County will play a Tornadoes squad coming off a 11-0 non-league win over Marissa/Coulterville (Marissa, IL). The Tornadoes record now stands at 24-7.

Rankings & Records

Hardin County (22-23)

IL	Class
296	31

Overall	Conference	Home	Away	Win %	Conference %	RF	RA
17-7-1	9-0	9-2-1	8-5	.700	1.000	218	116

Benton (22-23)

IL	Class
217	53

Overall	Conference	Home	Away	Neutral	Win %	Conference %	RF	RA
16-13-1	5-4-1	9-7-1	7-5	0-1	.550	.550	195	154

Team Scoring Averages

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	R	H	E
Hardin County	1.7	1.6	2.1	1.4	1.7	1.1	.3	1.0	8.7	8.6	1.5
Benton	1.0	.6	1.5	1.2	.9	.9	.3	2.3	6.5	7.1	1.9

Team Stat Comparison

Hardin County		Benton
.359	Batting Average	.309
.472	On Base Percentage	.393
.513	Slugging Percentage	.446
.926	Fielding Percentage	.941
.778	Win Loss Percentage	.571

Team Leaders

Hardin County		Benton	National Avg.
#0 Trafton Stallings.600	Batting Average	#3 Jacob Kinsman.467	.243
#3 Trenton Burton1.000	On Base Percentage	#3 Jacob Kinsman.545	.375
#23 Levi Snyder.857	Slugging Percentage	#3 Jacob Kinsman.922	.307
#0 Trafton Stallings1.000	Fielding Percentage	#14 Jaxon Payne1.000	.861
#2 Brandon Dutton1.000	Win Loss Percentage	#12 Chase Rubenacker1.000	.543

Common Opponents

School	Common Opp. Rec.		School	Common Opp. Rec.
Hardin County	3-5-1		Benton	7-3-1

Date	Away	Home	Result	Date	Away	Home	Result
3/13/23	Hardin County	Herrin	(L) 10-3	4/3/23	Benton	Herrin	(W) 10-0
				4/13/23	Herrin	Benton	(W) 4-0
3/16/23	Massac County	Hardin County	(W) 5-4	4/10/23	Benton	Massac County	(W) 3-0
				4/20/23	Massac County	Benton	(T) 6-6
3/20/23	Vienna	Hardin County	(T) 7-7	5/12/23	Vienna	Benton	(W) 15-5
5/5/23	Hardin County	Vienna	(W) 5-4
3/22/23	Hardin County	Harrisburg	(L) 10-0	4/6/23	Benton	Harrisburg	(L) 3-2
				4/18/23	Harrisburg	Benton	(L) 13-2
4/19/23	Hardin County	Fairfield	(W) 18-3	4/28/23	Fairfield	Benton	(W) 10-0
5/3/23	Hardin County	Anna-Jonesboro	(L) 10-3	3/30/23	Benton	Anna-Jonesboro	(L) 5-2
5/9/23	Hardin County	Carmi-White County	(L) 6-2	4/15/23	Carmi-White County	Benton	(W) 12-9
5/24/23	Waltonville	Hardin County	(L) 11-7	4/29/23	Waltonville	Benton	(W) 7-0

Record Breakdown

H Hardin County (22-23)		Benton (22-23)
17-7-1	Overall	16-13-1
9-0	League	5-4-1
6-6-1	Non-League	9-8
0-1	Head to Head	1-0
3-5-1	Common Opponent	7-3-1
9-2-1	Home	9-7-1
8-5	Away	7-5
0-0	Neutral	0-1
2-1	Playoff	0-1
16-7-1	In-State	16-13-1
1-0	Out-of-State	0-0