Baseball

Athens Academy verses Social Circle
April 7, 2008

The Spartans gave up five unearned runs with two outs in the seventh inning in a heartbreaking loss to the Redskins at home.

The Spartans started off the game with five runs in each of the first two innings, but could only muster one more run in the remaining five innings.

Offensive highlights:
• The Spartans hit six doubles, McKay Matthews, Matt Woodruff, Patrick Jansen, Tag Galvin (2) and James Colquitt
• Matt was 1 for 2 with a double, 2 walks, a sacrifice bunt and 1 RBI
• Patrick was 2 for 4 with a double and 2 RBI’s
• Tag was 2 for 4 with 2 doubles and 3 RBI’s
• Henry was 2 for 4 with 2 RBI’s
• The Spartans stole 6 bases, and earned 7 walks while only striking out twice

Defensive highlights:
• Evans Wellborn had 6 assists and 1 put-out making several outstanding plays at the hot corner.
• Hunter Stiles blocked extremely well at the catcher’s position and threw an incredible strike to first base, apparently picking the runner off.
• Thomas Sanders continues to make solid plays at first base
• Matt came in for an excellent catch in center field and kept the runner from scoring from second on a single.

Scoring:
• First inning:
o McKay led off with a double and scored on Matt’s double
o Patrick bunted Matt to third and reached first on a fielder’s choice
o Russ came to run for Patrick as a courtesy runner
o Matt came in to score on Hunter’s hard hit ball to first
o Tag doubled, scoring Russ
o Henry singled, scoring Tag, and stole second base
o Mark Sanders singled scoring Henry
 Five runs scored

• Second inning:
o Matt walked and stole second
o Patrick singled to score Matt
o Russ came in to run for Patrick and went to second on a wild pitch
o Russ was thrown out trying to steal third
o Evans walked and stole second
o Hunter walked. Evans went to third and James Waugh (running for Hunter) went to second on a wild pitch
o Evans and James scored on a double to the wall by Tag
o Henry singled, scoring Tag
o James Colquitt hit a double to deep center scoring Henry
 Five runs scored

• Fifth inning
o McKay led off the inning with a walk and went to second on a sacrifice bunt by Matt
o Patrick doubled, scoring McKay
 One run scored

The Spartans put forth a good offensive attack in the first two innings but four uncharacteristic errors were more than their offensive attack could overcome. They will regroup and head up to Lakeview for a 4:30 game on Wednesday. They will then travel to Tallulah Falls and Hebron on Thursday and Friday for two more region games this week. Hope to see you there!

Final Score: Athens Academy 11, Social Circle 12