WEEK #3

Ragsdale 12
E Randolph 0 5 innings

another one hit shutout for the Tigers. (six shutouts, one a no hitter and five one hitters).

I missed the first inning when Ragsdale batted around scoring 8 on a bunch of walks, hit batters and wild pitches. Nick McBride reached on an error in the second, got moved to third and scored on a wild pitch. In the fourth Ben Fultz drove in three on a triple to right to end the scoring.

McBride got his third win of the season striking out eight in four innings. Kyle Brandenburg struck out three more closing the game in the fifth. Maness played just about everybody tonight.

7-0, 2-0 with Friday @ Trinity.

 

MallardCreek beat West Meck 6-4 in a very good game. Mikal Hill pitched 6 innings, giving up 3 hits and 6 strike outs and giving up no earned runs. West Meck scored 4 runs in the bottom of the six on 1 hit and 3 errors to go ahead 4-3. Mallard Creek tied the game on a clutch 2 out hit by Brent Jones to score Mikal Hill and then Blaine Lewis and Trent Fullen followed with big doubles to plate the winning run and a big insurance run. Mallard Creek is 4-2 for the season. This was a big win for the second year program over a very good West Mecklenburg baseball team. Blaine Lewis, Trent Fullen and Rico Aponte had two hits for the Mavericks.

 

Tuscola 5, West Henderson 2

WH 0-0-2-0-0-0-0 2-5-1
Tuscola 5-0-0-0-0-0 5-8-1

WP Matt McClure 5in, 2 runs, 0er, 4 hits, 1bb, 3 k's
LP Tyler Austin 2in, 5 runs, 3 er, 5 hits, 0bb, 1k

For Tuscola:
Cody Stubbs, 2/3, HR, double, 3 rbi's
Jack Bishop, 2/3

For WH:
Dillon Baker, 2/3, double

WH is now 5-1, Tuscola is now 5-0.

Tuscola has now knocked off Enka, TC Roberson, and West Henderson in succession. The new coach has these kids ready to play.

 

East Rowan vs West Rowan

East Rowan- 4
West Rowan- 2

The mustangs played very good defensively tonight. David Ijames and Zach Smith homered. Kent Basinger went 6 inning on the mound giving up the two runs on 6th inning back to back shots by the Falcons. Cody Laws pitched the 7th.

Zach Simpson pitched well for the Falcons. He threw 5 innings and DJ Webb finished off the game. Simpson gave up the 4 runs.

East Rowan is scheduled to play Veritas Sports Academy tomorrow and Carson on Friday.

East Rowan (5-0)

 

AK 10, Butler 0

Butler 0-0-0-0-0--0-1-4
Ardrey Kell 2-3-0-0-5--10-11-0

WP: Alex Wood 2-0
LP: Ryan Mas 0-1

Leading hitters - AK: Brett Lang 2-3, 2 2Bs, 4 RBIs; Ryan Stetson 2-3, 2B, 2 RBI; Alex Bartolomeo 2-3; Alex Wood 2-3, RBI. Butler - Tyler Tewell 1-2.

Alex Wood strikes out 8 in his second consecutive shut out.

Records: AK 5-0; 2-0 SW4A; Butler 2-1; 0-1.

Next Games: Butler host Providence 3/19; AK at Independence 3/20.

 

Jack Britt - 5
Richmond - 2

Not the way we wanted to open the conference schedule.

 

West Forsyth - 4
Parkland - 3

WP - Tyler Coyle

HR - Kelly Surface - Parkland

HR - David Todd, Ben Currie - West Forsyth

 

Rocky Mount/South Granville

Rocky Mount's bats produced 18 hits and 13 runs to defeat the Vikings 13-6.
Rocky Mount's leading hitters:
Thomas Berry 4-4, 2 RBI
Ben Fish 3-4, HR, 4 RBI
Brian Goodwin 3-5
Dillon Cockrell 3-5, 2B, 2 RBI
Collins Cuthrell 2-5, 2B, RBI

South Granville:
Josh Darroch 1-3, HR, 3 RBI
Zach Moran 2-4, RBI

Josh Darroch took the loss for SG. The Vikings are 3-2 on the season.
Hobbs Johnson got the win in relief of Benton Moss.

Congratulations to the Gryphons, they really swung it today.

 

Bunker Hill at Maiden

Bunker Hill 6
Maiden 2

J. Abernathy pitched a complete game for the Bears to pick up a win over the Blue Devils. Brian Huffman took the lose in relief of Kelly for the Devils. At the plate the Bears were led by Shepherd with a two run homer. Jacob Lineberger and Justin Sizemore led Maiden(3-1) with two hits apiece. Next game for the Blue Devils is Friday at home versus Hickory.

Play Hard! Play Fast! Play With Class!

 

Well another tough loss for the Falcons, this will turn around soon for West, if they were getting blown out by these good teams, then they would need to be worried. I'll say they get their 1st win Friday against North Iredell. It's gut check time for the Falcons. Not time to press the panic button. Congrats to the East boys on the W.