Broncos drop two at Cascade

Boyd’s high school baseball team saw its record drop to 2-11 overall and 2-6 in District 9-A play this week, after dropping both halves of a doubleheader Tuesday at Cascade.

In the opener, a game Bronco coach Buddy Majors described as the ‘worst overall game of the season in every way,’ the Broncos were trounced 25-1, as the Champions began things by sending 22 batters to the plate in the first inning, scoring 16 runs.

‘Our pitching, hitting and execution were all bad,’ Majors said. ‘It was a total display of how not to play baseball.’

Josh Burton recorded just one out after starting on the mound for the Broncos, with Cascade getting to him for seven runs before Tyler Hillis came on for 2 2/3 innings of relief. Mitchell Young pitched the game’s final two innings. In all, Boyd pitchers issued 12 walks and gave up 16 hits.

Dylan Fernandez scored what would prove to be Boyd’s only run in the top of the fourth, doubling with one out and scoring on a Hillis hit.

In Game 2, the Broncos gave themselves opportunities, but poor throws allowed the Champions to stay alive on the way to a 7-2 win.

‘We had six runners picked off in the first two innings, but four ended up scoring after we threw the ball away during run-downs,’ Majors explained. ‘That tells the tale.

‘We played better than we did in the first game, but the score should’ve been 2-1 after four innings and wasn’t because of our poor execution.’

Cascade plated three runs in the first, two more in the second inning, scored five in the fourth and tacked on two more insurance runs in the fifth.

Boyd’s Casey Myers took the loss, pitching four innings, while Jon Bryant pitched the fifth. The Broncos’ runs came in the third, when Bryant singled and scored, and in the fifth, when Isaiah White drew a walk and scored.

The Broncos were scheduled to travel to Woodbury for a doubleheader Thursday.