A Close battle took place between the, once was, two consolidated baseball programs, the Riverside Cyclones and the Doniphan West Mustangs. Doniphan West picked up game one of the end-of-the-season doubleheader against the Cyclones with a narrow win of just 1-0. 

Keagan Hughes took the mound in game one for all six innings for the Cyclones, while Cooper Eberly went all seven innings in game one for the Mustangs

The first inning was the action inning of the day in game one for both teams, with Riverside leaving one stranded on first base in the top of the inning. It was Keagan Hughes who reached on a single and was left on second after stealing the base. Eberly picked up his first and second strikeout to retire Hayes and Benitz to end the top of the first. 

Doniphan West would get their lone run of the game in the bottom of the first with a leadoff full-count walk, with none other than the base thief himself, Dustin Veach. Veach stole his fifty-sixth base this season with his takeoff to second and reached third base off a wild pitch to put himself in scoring position with no outs. Keagan Hughes would hold the fort down with back-to-back strikeouts to leave Veach on third with two outs. However, Hayden Paolino would record his only hit of the game and the team’s only one of two hits to score Veach from third. 

The rest of the game would consist mostly of fast-paced innings with some big key plays sprinkled throughout. Mustangs Hayden Paolino had an incredible throw to second from behind the plate to get Keagan Hughes out on a caught stealing, which was Paolino’s eleventh time this season recording a caught runner trying to steal. 

The game would conclude in the top of the seventh with a runner on third and second base for the Cyclones with only two outs. Brody Huff was up for Riverside and on a two-two count, struck out swinging on a breaking ball. Eberly ran up his eleventh strikeout of the game, putting him at seventy-eight on the year, while also finishing a complete game shutout. Keagan Hughes still completed things for the Cyclones, going six innings, two hits given up, one earned run, and nine total strikeouts. The young star sophomore pitcher also went two-for-three at the plate with two singles. 

Riverside managed to split the doubleheader with an 8-3 victory in game two. Doniphan West ends the regular season 16-6 while the Cyclones end the regular season with an overall of 15-5.