Weeks delivers big hit for Red Top
WATKINS - Red Top's Ben Weeks has been in the Iowa Valley League since 2009.
Over those nine seasons, he has had plenty of at-bats against Watkins left-hander Luke Franzenburg.
On Sunday, the two IVL veterans matched up again in the second game of a doubleheader at Gabe Kuester Memorial Ball Park in Watkins.
With the game tied 1-1 in the top of the eighth, Weeks cracked a two-out RBI double off Franzenburg to right-center field, plating Trey Beckman with what proved to be the winning run in a hard-fought 2-1 victory for visiting Red Top to secure a split of the twinbill.
Watkins, behind six strong innings from University of Iowa left-hander Kyle Shimp, took the opener, 4-2.
Weeks, who played in high school at Solon before a collegiate career at Kirkwood and Winona State, said he wasn't looking for any particular pitch from Franzenburg when he came up in the eighth.
"I've played against Luke for quite a few years now, so I'm pretty much in tune with what he throws," Weeks said. "He's still a real tough pitcher and he was throwing a one-run game. I was just up there thinking a hit scores the go-ahead run." Read more...