SANTA ROSA >> It took a few weeks, but the Middletown High School varsity baseball team and first-year coach Jeff Mielke are finally in the win column.
Led by the pitching of sophomore Keegan Cutting, the Mustangs snapped a nine-game losing streak to start the season with a 6-0 victory over the Sonoma Academy Coyotes on Tuesday evening in Santa Rosa. Cutting tossed a complete-game five-hitter while striking out six and walking only one.
Middletown staked Cutting to a 2-0 lead before he had thrown his first pitch in the bottom of the first inning. The Mustangs added two more runs in the third for a 4-0 lead, then picked up insurance runs in the fourth and sixth.
Hitting statistics were not reported to the Record-Bee.
Middletown, which out-hit Sonoma Academy 12-5, opens its North Central League I schedule on Friday in Cloverdale at 4 p.m. Despite their preseason record, the Mustangs are considered a contender for the North Central League I title, that according to many of the other coaches in the league. The Mustangs return home April 4 to play Lower Lake at 4 p.m.
