The pitching of Soren Stelter on Friday night for Pella High’s baseball team was a big key for the Little Dutch to clinch the regular season series over Oskaloosa. Entering Friday, the sophomore had made just one official start, and had a bloated 7.73 ERA in 6 1/3 innings pitched. Stelter came back and fired a shutout against the Indians to pitch his team to a 5 – 0 win. After a shaky start to 2016, Coach Jesse Jablonski says that Stelter’s recent showing is good for the team now and for the future.
“He hasn’t thrown a lot of innings, and he has got hit around,” Jablonski says. “The one thing that you don’t see; he was in the Centerville game that got rained out here a week or two ago. I think he was through maybe three innings with a shutout game, too. Here in the last week or two, he’s really started to throw the ball extremely well. He had a couple of bad outings earlier in the season that kind of inflated his numbers a little bit. He numbers were a little misleading from one or two bad outings, but he’s a guy we look to especially for our future. Even tonight, the future might be here for him already.”
The two-time Little Hawkeye Conference champions will play their last five games against non-conference competitors, starting on Tuesday with a visit from PCM.