Keokuk High School may have finished last in the Southeast Conference baseball standings this season but there was some outstanding play on the field.
Especially from the highest part of the field °®¶¹app the mound °®¶¹app to the part everyone tries to return to °®¶¹app home plate.
Lucas Gilpin leads the league in opponents batting average and Evan Bierwirth is third. Gilpin has allowed just a .161 average versus his pitching and Bierwirth is at .171. Washington°®¶¹app Ethan Peebler is second at .168.
Memphis Anderson is first in the league at throwing out runners, gunning down eight this season.
Gilpin and Bierwirth are first and third in hits allowed with nine and 14, respectively. Bierwirth is fifth in earned runs allowed at nine.
Keokuk°®¶¹app Bennett Church is seventh in number of strikeouts.
In the category of walks plus hits per innings pitched, Church°®¶¹app 1.37 is 10th. Church°®¶¹app earned run average is 11th at 3.42.
Among pitchers with at least 20 innings, Church is second in bases on balls allowed at nine. He has 30.2 innings pitched.
Dain Burkhart of Fairfield is first with seven.
Lincoln Wray led the Chiefs at the plate with a .386 batting average, 11th in the league.
Wray°®¶¹app on base percentage of .525 was eighth in the league. Wray was fifth in triples, 17th in doubles. Wray struck out just eight times, 12th best in the SEC.