In a game heard on WEZC and at dewittdailynews.com, Monticello’s Mitch Carr outdueled Blue Ridge’s Alec Lyle Tuesday afternoon and the Sages came away with a 4-0 non-conference victory in boys baseball action.

Carr threw 5.1 shutout innings, allowing four hits with seven strikeouts and two walks. Konner Bundy finished the final inning and a third for the save.

Lyle was terrific, working around spotty defense to allow three runs, two of which were earned, without walking a batter and striking out two. Jacob Mozinga finished out the final two-thirds of an inning, allowing a run.

Bundy finished 2-for-3 with a pair of doubles. Jeffery Wileaver finished 1-for-3 with the only Sages RBI single. Alex Marquardt was 1-for-3. Logan Hislope drew a walk and scored a run.

Lyle and Houser each finished 1-for-2 with a walk. Mozinga and David Wells each finished 1-for-3.

The Knights committed five errors, three in the first when the Sages scored two, then two more in then two more in the fourth inning, but courtesy runner Alek Bundy was cut down on a groundball to Knights first basemen Houser, who fired a strike to Wells who tagged out Bundy.

The Knights had a huge opportunity in the fifth inning, when they loaded the bases against Carr before being lifted for Bundy. With one out, Bundy got Isaac Trotter to ground to shortstop Mitch Rhoades who flipped to defensive replacement Brody Macak who fired a strike to first to get the inning ending double-play.

After back to back two-out singles by Mozinga and Wells in the second inning, Carr set down 11 in a row, with seven being strikeouts.

Blue Ridge drops to 3-5 on the season while Monticello improves to 7-1 overall.