After wet grounds left over from last weekend’s storms at Mt. Juliet Christian’s Billie Friel Field prompted the Saints’ District 4-II A game with Friendship Christian to be doubled up as a twin bill at the Commanders’ John McNeal Stadium on Tuesday, FCS crushed MJCA 22-0 and 32-0.
Caleb Kring pitched a five-inning no-hitter in the first game before the Commanders clinched the top seed out of the district’s east division with a 6-0 record, 10-9 overall.
Kring walked two and struck out eight.
He was backed by a 22-hit attack with included a triple and double by Luke Sellars, doubles by Perez Parker and Mason Hallum and two singles each by Cayden Law, Brody McCue, Jaxon Pulliam and Brayden Stringer. Stringer, Parker and Caleb Brown each drove in two runs.
Friendship scored in all four at-bats, highlighted by a 10-run third inning.
Brown pitched a five-inning one-hitter in the second game with a walk and seven strikeouts.
Friendship finished with 26 hits, including two home runs by Stringer and one by Hallum. Hallum also singled twice and doubled while Parker and Miles Fitzpatrick each doubled twice among their four hits. Boone banged out three singles while Sellars, Stringer and McCue collected two apiece.
Stringer drove in four runs, Boone three and Sellars, Kring, Hallum, Fitzpatrick, McCue and Parker two apiece.
The Commanders, the visiting team for this game, scored in all five innings, highlighted by 16 runs in the third.
Mt. Juliet hands Watertown first loss after 15 winsWATERTOWN — Mt. Juliet handed Watertown its first loss of the season Wednesday 4-2.
The game was scoreless until the Golden Bears scored two runs in the fifth inning off Watertown starter Zeb Major. They added two unearned runs in the seventh off C.J. Potter.
Those unearned scores turned out to be the difference as Watertown got those back in the bottom half as Chase Young and Wyatt Phillips scored on RBIs by Garrett Davis and Aiden Dedman.
Carter Lewis pitched the full seven innings for Mt. Juliet, allowing two unearned runs on five hits, two walks and a hit batter with six strikeouts.
Major allowed two hits and two walks while hitting three and striking out five in five innings. Potter walked three and punched out six in his two innings as the Tigers lost for the first time after 15 season-opening wins.
Baylor Osborne had Mt. Juliet’s two RBIs and one of the two Bears’ hits.
Dedman had two of the Tigers five hits.
Thorne’s four RBIs lift Lebanon past GordonsvilleSOUTH CARTHAGE — Cade Thorne drove in four runs on two hits Thursday to lift Lebanon to a 14-2 win over host Gordonsville at Crump Paris Park.
Evan Driver singled in the Blue Devils’ first run in the top of the first inning.
The first of Thorne’s two 2-run singles and a run-scoring hit by Jordan Jewell stretched the lead in the second.
Thorne’s other two-run single was followed by Driver’s two-run double and Scout Loftis’ run-producing in the fourth.
Lebanon tacked on five more scores in the fifth as RBI doubles by Will Wright and Loftis sandwiched around Evyn Underwood’s RBI single and Driver’s run-scoring fielder’s choice.
Jewell was the winning pitcher with three scoreless and hitless innings during which he walked one and struck out five. Maddox Njezic threw a scoreless inning of relief.
Thorne, Driver, Loftis, Wright and Jewell each had two of Lebanon’s 11 hits.
Purple Tigers bounce back to beat UppermanBAXTER — Watertown bounced back from its first loss of the season by walloping host Upperman 6-1 Thursday.
Avery Davis held the Bees to a seventh-inning unearned run, two hits and no walks while striking out two as the Purple Tigers improved to 16-1.
Watertown scored a run in the first inning and broke it open with four in the fourth as the ...
