Sanders, BLC take victories

Tuesday night in the 9- and 10-year-old baseball league Sanders Construction defeated the Custom Collision Royals 9-5 on the Hoover Milraney Field. In the second game of the night the BLC Braves shut out Sweeton Home Improvement 8-0. Sanders sent four runs to the plate in the top of the first, while Custom was held to one run. In the top of the second Sanders Construction added two more runs to the board and Custom Collision added one run. Custom scored one run in the bottom of the fourth and two more runs in the fifth. Sanders secured the victory with three runs in the top of the sixth. Anthony Palmer picked up the win with three innings of work, giving up three hits and two runs. Blathen Woodlee saw two innings of work allowing four hits and three runs. J.D. Keele took the loss working three innings, giving up five hits and six runs. Ethan Neal saw three innings of work, giving up three hits and three runs. For the Royals Neal had three hits, Phillip Brock, Keele, Chandler Rockwell and Paxton Smith had one hit each. For the Cardinals, Woodlee had three hits. Darius Wright, Palmer, Will Lupo, Cameron Carden and Austin Carden added one hit apiece. Zach Estes held the Tigers to two hits to pick up the win for the BLC Braves in game two and fanned 14 batters. The Braves scored one run in the bottom of the first and second innings. Five in the third and one in the fifth. Adrien Lusk took the loss, working four innings, giving up six hits and seven runs, with seven K’s. Devon Terry pitched one inning allowing one run. For the Braves, Reed Garrison had two hits. Luke Estes, Dustin Hale and Cory Richardson added one hit each. For the Tigers, Terry and Ben Sweeton had one hit apiece.