WCMS baseball tops Trojans, rips Rockets
A three-run seventh inning lifted Warren County Middle School?s baseball team to victory Tuesday night in Winchester, giving them a 9-8 win over Franklin County South.
Caleb Underhill came through with the Pioneers? final hit, punching a single to center which was misplayed in the outfield, allowing Tylan Martin to score what would prove to be the game-winning run.
The play capped a three-run inning for the Pioneers, with Dustin Rhea and Tyler Glenn also scoring to tie the contest at 8-all before Martin came home with the game-winner.
Christian Gonzalez led the Pioneers at the plate with a 2-for-3 game, scoring one run and driving in two others, including a sacrifice fly RBI which plated Caleb Northcutt in the first. WCMS added four more runs in the third, in an inning which featured a two-run double by Roth Nunley, and added another in the fifth on a Gonzalez RBI double which drove home Glenn.
Glenn got the start on the mound, with Nunley picking up the win in relief.
South scored three runs in the first, and added five more in the fifth inning.
Last Thursday at Manchester, WCMS topped Westwood in another close game, winning 8-7.
The Pioneers scored three runs in the sixth to take a lead, and had to hold on as the Rockets plated four of their own in the bottom of the inning after sending 10 batters to the plate.
Ethan Wilson and Zack Rubley had two hits each for the Pioneers, with Rubley scoring two runs and driving in another. Starting pitcher Dustin Rhea had two RBIs, while Martin, Wilson and Rubley all drove in runs.
? Last Friday, the Pioneer junior varsity scored a doubleheader sweep at home, topping South in a pair of games.
In the opener, Micah McColloch pitched his team to an 8-3 win, which featured a four-run Pioneer first inning. South countered with two runs in the second, and after Jordan Dennis singled and scored in the third for Warren County, the Trojans added another run in the top of the fourth.
But WCMS put the game out of reach in the bottom of the fourth inning, scoring three runs on hits by Brett Mullican, Garrison Holmes and Nick Grandey.
Another quick start was key in Game 2, as WCMS opened things up with a five-run first, taking a 5-2 lead on the way to an 11-8 win.
South answered with four runs of its own in the second, taking a 6-5 lead, but the Pioneers put up two more in the bottom of the second and added two in the third to lead 9-6.
South pulled within one with a two-run fourth, but in the bottom of the inning WCMS sealed the win, with a two-run frame capped by a two-out RBI double by Mitchell McCorkle.
WCMS was slated to face Coffee County Thursday afternoon.