Stay in the hunt for a Four Rivers Conference (FRC) title.

Steven Kemp’s Owensville Dutchmen baseball team was trying to do exactly that Monday night on the road in Phelps County against St. James’ Tigers at Nelson Hart Park.

Jumping out to a 5-0 lead after three innings, Owensville blew the game open with a six-run top of the fourth inning en route to a 12-0 victory in five innings moving them to 3-1 in FRC play.

Senior leadoff hitter Landon Ely singled and scored on a Chase Weirich RBI single to break the scoreless tie in the top of the first inning.

Landon Kramme also singled and scored when Jansen Loeb reached on an error later in the inning.

After Weirich scored on a wild pitch, Loeb crossed the plate on a RBI sacrifice fly off the bat of Logan Bailey capping Owensville’s four-run first inning.

Striking out the side in the bottom of the first inning, Weirich gave his Dutchmen offense a chance to add to their lead.

After a scoreless second inning, Weirich helped his own cause with one swing.

With two outs in the top of the third inning, Weirich deposited the first pitch he saw over the center-field fence for a solo home run and a 5-0 lead after three innings.

Moving to the top of the fourth inning, Chris Allen was hit by a pitch before Jaden Gerlemann started a two-out rally with a RBI double scoring courtesy runner Colton Skiles who was in for Allen.

Gerlemann then scored on an Ely RBI triple before a Gates RBI single drove in Ely.

Loeb capped the six-run top of the fourth with a two-RBI double scoring Kramme and Weirich bumping the Dutchmen lead to 11-0 after four innings.

Layne Evans singled and scored in the top of the fifth when Ely reached on an error giving Owensville their final margin of victory.

Going 3-3 with three RBIs and a run scored, Weirich earned the complete-game win allowing no runs on one hit and no walks to go with 10 strikeouts.

During the WOW Wood Bat Tournament over the weekend, Jaden Gerlemann was named to the All-Tournament Team after going 7-10 in three games with a double, five singles and four RBIs.

Falling 9-8 in extra innings in last Friday’s tournament opener at Savannah, Owensville bounced back Saturday morning with an 18-2 win in five innings of East Buchanan’s Bulldogs.

Jumping out to a quick 6-1 lead after one inning, OHS scored 12 runs over the final three innings of their mercy-rule victory.

Gerlemann went 4-4 with three runs scored and two RBIs. Ely had three hits to go along with the quintet of Gates, Kramme, Weirich, Loeb and Allen with two hits apiece.

Kramme also drove in a team-high four runs against the Bulldogs.

With consolation hardware on the line, Owensville dropped a 10-3 contest against Mid-Buchanan’s Dragons.

Ely had two hits and a RBI to go along with a hit and two RBIs from Gerlemann.

Last Thursday in St. Clair, the orange and black led the Bulldogs 1-0 after an inning before stringing together crooked numbers in the final four innings of their 11-1 victory along Interstate 44 in St. Clair.

Weirich earned the win pitching five and two-thirds innings allowing an unearned run on four hits to go with a walk and five strikeouts.

Ely, Kramme, Weirich and Loeb each had three hits for Owensville in St. Clair.

Steven Benton’s JV Dutchmen were able to string together consecutive wins with a 2-1 victory over St. Clair before overcoming a 3-1 deficit for a 7-6 win at St. James.

Adam Wilson went 3-3 with three RBIs and a run scored against St. James while Owen Binkhoelter had a RBI at St. Clair.