KINGSTON — The Ada High School baseball team didn’t get off to the greatest start against Davis during their first-round matchup on a chill Thursday evening at the Kingston Tournament.
However, the Cougars put together a pretty strong finish and raced past the Wolves 12-4.
Coach Shane Coker’s bunch improved to 17-1 on the year, while Davis dropped to 6-6. Ada was scheduled to face Caddo — ranked No. 6 in Class A-1 — Friday night in the semifinals. The third-place game in Kingston is scheduled for 1 p.m. today with the title game set for 3 p.m.
Ada 12, Davis 4
The Wolves scored all four of their runs in the top of the first inning. Davis strung together five hits in the early surge, including a two-run base knock from Creed Rogers that put the Wolves on top 4-0.
Ada hurler Chalin Robertson settled in after the rough beginning. He proceeded to throw three straight scoreless innings and finished with four strikeouts and two walks. Kyler Gaddis tossed the fifth and final shutout inning.
The Cougars got the bats going in the bottom of the third inning. Ada’s offense detonated to the tune of eight base hits in the inning which led to nine runs. That big AHS burst also included a walk and a hit batter.
Eli Justus led off the bottom of the fifth with a solo home run he peppered over the wall in center field that put the Cougars ahead 10-4.
After another Ada run scored on an error, Brock Boyles walked the game off with a sacrifice fly.
Keith Cook paced a 13-hit Ada offense, going 3-for-4 with a double and an RBI. Elvis Edwards finished 2-for-2 with three RBIs and three runs scored for the Cougars and Collin Chrsitian went 2-for-3 with an RBI and a run scored. Gaddis also had two hits and scored a run and Boyles ended up 1-for-3 with two RBIs.
Dax Owens, Rogers and Braxton Thompson all had two hits each for Davis. Owens went 2-for-3 with a run scored, Thompson went 2-for-3 with a double and Rogers ended up 2-for-3 with two RBIs.
Gage Coppenbarger was the losing pitcher for the Wolves.
