Broncos split at Cannon

The Boyd Bronco high school baseball team split a doubleheader against Cannon County on Monday in Woodbury. The Broncos won the first game 4-2, but dropped the second game 10-0 in three innings. Jon Bryant set a new single-season stolen base record for the Broncos with a perfect 15-of-15 mark on the year.

Overall the Broncos are 3-12 on the season and 2-6 in District 9-A action.

In the first game Dylan Fernandez picked up the win, going six innings. Fernandez gave up two runs on 91 pitches, with seven strikeouts and one walk on the day. Josh Burton closed things out with two K’s with one inning of work.

Boyd scored its first run in the top of the third, when Bryant got things started with a one out hit. Casey Myers reached after being hit by a pitch. Tyler Hillis singled and Dylan Keith followed with a RBI single before Cannon County got out of the inning.

Cannon County answered in the bottom of the inning with two runs crossing the plate off of two hits and an error and a walk.

In the top of the fifth the Broncos tied the game at 2-1 when Hillis singled with two outs and Keith followed with a double which scored Hillis.

The Broncos took the lead in the top of the sixth when David Watson and Austin Young collected back-to-back hits. With two outs Myers singled to score Watson and Young as Boyd took a 4-2 lead.

Two errors in the bottom of the seventh by the Broncos put runners on the corners, but the next three batters went down in order as Boyd picked up the win.

Keith collected three hits, Hillis and Josh Burton had two hits each. Bryant, Watson and Young added one hit apiece.

In the second game the Bronco bats went cold as Boyd collected just one hit, while Cannon County pounded out five. Bryant got the start and gave up seven runs on 41 pitches. Keith came in and gave up one earned run.

Cannon County scored two runs in the first, five runs in the second and four in the third.

Burton had the only hit for Boyd, leading off the second with a single.