[Baseball] Red Team Takes Home Game 1 of Fall Classic

Tuesday, October 29th – 6:00PM

Game 1 Results- Red team won 2-1

Summary

Both junior right handed pitchers Sam King and Dakota Crowell had outstanding outings on the mound last night in Game 1 of the Red and Black World Series. Sam King got the win for the Red going six complete innings allowing one earned run. Senior Brendan Grainger led off the game with a double and advanced on a error by freshman right fielder Dalton Davis to advance to third. Senior Trevor McKinley then hit a fielder's choice groundball to first base to score the Black team's lone run for the night. Senior Trevor McKinley also had two doubles throughout the night and Senior Jake Chaney had a double as well for the Black team.  Offensively for the Red team Lance Pope led the way with a double and a go ahead solo homerun in the seventh inning. Newcomer Drew Bailey had a RBI double to score Lance Pope for the Red teams first score of the night. In relief, LHP Brock Young gave up a solo homerun to take the loss for the Black team and senior LHP Dylan Barbee pitched three scoreless innings to close out the game for the Red team.

Coach Hill's thoughts- "Both teams had multiple opportunities to score with runners in scoring position and did not execute. We have to do a better job and have better approaches at the plate in those situations. I thought all pitchers pitched well only allowing three runs as a whole. Both teams were energetic and the atmosphere was great. We had several fans and it was a sense of appreciation to me over the past year as when we did our fall classic last season where there was not many fans. Therefore, I would like to say thank you to the parents and fans of the community for coming out and supporting us last night."