Friendship limits Broncos to just 2 hits in twin bill

By DALE STUBBLEFIELD / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard

Boyd’s Dillon Childers scrambles back to first to avoid being picked off during the Bronco baseball team’s doubleheader Monday afternoon against Friendship Christian.

In Boyd’s District 9-A doubleheader against Friendship Christian on Monday at Edley Newman Field, the Broncos managed just one hit in each game as Boyd fell 17-0 in the first game and dropped the second 10-0.

Jackson Sledge took the mound for Friendship in the opening game. picking up the win by facing 17 batters, giving up one hit with 10 strikeouts.

Tyler Hillis pitched one inning for Boyd giving up seven runs on five hits with three walks. Brooks Palmer worked the final four innings, allowing nine hits and 10 runs.

Friendship struck for seven runs in the top of the first. A leadoff walk and doubles by Zack Gardner and Sledge, along with singles from Lee Sweeney, Dylan Ray and Ryan Gains put the Commanders out in front 7-0. Boyd’s leadoff batter Palmer drew a walk but the next three batters went down in order.

In the top of the third Friendship added seven more runs off of three walks and five hits for a 14-0 lead. They added three runs in the top of the fourth to make it a 17-0 game.

Boyd’s only hit came in the bottom of the fourth, when Dillon Childers singled with one out but Boyd was unable to score the runner. Boyd went down 1-2-3 in the bottom of the fifth to close out game one.

Childers took the mound for Boyd in the night-cap giving up 10 runs on 10 hits. Boyd once again was held to just one hit as Jon Bryant picked up a single in the bottom of the first. Friendship sent six runs across the plate in the top of the first and three runs in the top of the second for a 9-0 lead.

Friendship added one run in the top of the fourth when Lee Sweeney hit one over the fence putting the Commanders up 10-0.

Boyd went down in order in the bottom of the fourth and fifth as Friendship walked away with the twin-bill.

The Broncos will be back in action at home on Thursday against Watertown.