Rain and thunderstorms have influenced all baseball schedules this season including Amboy.

Last week was a jam as many games in as you can week to make up for postponements as the Clippers played four games in six days since Sundays don’t count as baseball days.

The onslaught of games started with a 15-5 win against Milledgeville on Tuesday, April 23 on the road, followed by a 9-2 loss to Milledgeville Thursday, April 25 at Amboy, a 16-0 four inning walloping of Orangeville-Aquin-Lanark on Saturday, April 27 at Pearl City, and a 12-3 loss to Forreston on Monday, April 29 at Amboy.

The Clippers have an 8-11 overall record and are 4-4 in the Northwest Upstate Illini Conference.

In the 15-5 win over Milledgeville, Amboy scored 10 runs in the second inning.

The offensive charge was led by junior Quinn Leffelman’s three runs scored, double, single, hit by pitch, and stolen base, junior Eddie Jones was 4-of-4 at the plate with four singles, three runs scored, and two stolen bases, and junior Dillion Merriman was 3-of-4 with three singles for three runs. 

Senior Landon Whelchel scored two runs with a double and a single, and four Clippers scored one run (senior Landon Montavon, juniors Carson Barlow and Brody Christoffersen, and sophomore Rylan McNinch) with Barlow hitting 3-of-3 with two singles, a double, and a walk.

In the conference rematch, the Clippers fell to the Missiles, 9-2, with Montavon and Jones scoring runs.

The Clipper offense came alive once again in the fourth-inning win over the Orangeville co-op as Leffelman scored four runs, Whelchel accredited for three runs and three RBI, Montavon crossed home plate three times, Chirstoffersen was 3-of-4 with three RBI, Barlow scored twice and had two RBI, and Merriman, Jones, senior Austin Shugars, and McNinch each scored once.

On Monday, Amboy tallied three runs in the second inning for the lead until Forreston scored three in the fourth, four in the sixth, and five in the seventh.

Amboy’s three runs came from Barlow, Jones, and Shugars.