The Salem Wildcats varsity baseball team won a pair of games on the road at Fairfield in their Summer League.
Salem opened with an 8-2 victory. The Cats were up 3-1 after four innings but scored 5 times in the 5th to get some breathing room. Noah Nix tripled and drove in a run, Brogan Gregg doubled home a run and scored twice with RBI also from Kam Wilkins, Jalen Inlow and Griffin Day. Gavin Zimmermann worked the first 6 innings allowing 3 hits and 1 earned run while striking out 12. Nix allowed 1 hit and struck out a pair.
Salem won the second game 13-7 putting up 7 runs in the sixth inning with the game tied at 6. Salem out hit Fairfield 19-7. Nix homered going 3-4 with 2 RBI and 3 runs scored. Jalen Inlow doubled, tripled and drove in 3 going 3-5. Nate Paulson and Kam Wilkins drove in 2 with RBI also from Griffin Day and Brogan Gregg. Gregg got the win going 4 innings allowing 1 hit and 1 run with 5 ks. Wilkins and Nix worked the other 3 innings.
