Central Region | Archive | March, 2008

Boze Outduels Perkins

Posted on 27 March 2008 by redwan123.

by Stephen M. Lewis
DigitalSports Richmond

In the preseason, Lee-Davis believed its success depended on its youthful pitching.

That still may be true, but the way freshman Jordan Boze looked on the hill Thursday afternoon versus a potent Dinwiddie lineup, things may be better than the Confederates think.

The 6-2 Boze pitched five innings giving up one hit to lead L-D to a 2-0 victory over the Generals, giving the Confederates a 2-2 record in the Spring Break Blast.

L-D, ranked sixth in the latest DigitalSports Top 10, won the second game of each day. No. 6 Dinwiddie dropped three of its four spring-break games.

“He doesn’t look like a freshman to me,” a very pleased Lee-Davis coach Kenny Lewis said of Boze. “I think he gave up one hit. You are talking about a ranked team in the Central Region, which is usually a good area for baseball.”

Dinwiddie senior hurler Taylor Perkins was nothing to sneeze at, either. The 2007 first-team all-Central District pick gave up four hits in six innings.

L-D mustered the first run of the contest as Josh Perks‘ grounder put in Nick Frame from third in a bases-loaded situation in the fifth inning.

The Confederates marked another run in the sixth on a throwing error and smart base running from Jordan Walton, leaving a talented, but youthful Generals team looking for more offense.

“We’re just not hitting well,” Dinwiddie coach Shawn Wynn said. “When the counts in your favor, you have to hit. I think we’ve hit into six double plays in the last two games.

“[Taylor] kept his pitch count down and worked the zone. That was a good sign for him. You can’t hold people to negative runs, though.”

Dinwiddie 000 000 0 – 0 2 1
Lee-Davis 000 011 x – 2 4 2
Perkins and Warren; Boze, Hacker (6) and Musser.
Records: Dinwiddie (2-3); Lee-Davis (4-2)

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Colonials Over Monarchs

Posted on 27 March 2008 by redwan123.

by Chris Naquin
DigitalSports Richmond

Colonial Heights beat Meadowbrook 12-5 on Thursday afternoon in the L.C. Bird Tournament.

The Colonials wasted no time getting on the scoreboard as they found themselves up 9-3 after just three innings.

CH catcher J.D. McCarty started the scoring off by hitting a triple over Meadowbrook center fielder Trey Turner‘s head, bringing in sophomore center fielder Hunter Haydon to go up 1-0 on the Monarchs.

Jordan Reeves also hit an RBI in the first inning to put the Colonials ahead 2-0.

In the second inning, Haydon knocked in two more runs for the Colonials by hitting a ball pass Meadowbrook shortstop Tony Domowicz to go up 4-2.

Colonial Heights would go on to score four more runs in the inning including an RBI single hit by right fielder Daniel Falls and an RBI triple by first baseman Brett Draper.

After just two complete innings the Colonials were ahead of the Monarchs 8-0.

Meadowbrook started to swing the bat in the third as it knocked in three runs of its own.

Tevin Evans hit an RBI single to put the Monarchs on the scoreboard, and Robert Pettis would also bring in another run by hitting a double into right field.

Pettis would eventually make it home to put the score at 8-3 in favor of the Colonials.

Colonial Heights struggled to finish off Meadowbrook late in the game as they only scored a single run in both the third and fourth innings putting them ahead 10-3.

Meadowbrook’s best chance to rally was in the sixth inning, when third baseman Dean Rogers hit a home run adding two more to the Monarchs score.

The Monarchs were unable to score again in the game as they were shut down by Colonial Heights pitcher Burke Steele.

Steele pitched a complete game for the Colonials.

Meadowbrook    003 002 0 –   5 5 7
Colonial Heights 261 120 X – 12 7 2
Blakley, Rooney (3), Domowicz (6) and Bone; Steele and McCarty.
Records: Meadowbrook (0-5); Colonial Heights (4-2)

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Sophomore Propels Atlee

Posted on 27 March 2008 by redwan123.

By Seneca Contomanolis
DigitalSports Richmond

You know you have done something right when even the coach is impressed.

Sophomore John Freeman pitched a complete game and allowed only four runs as host Atlee defeated Dinwiddie 9-4 Thursday afternoon.

Freeman, as well as another sophomore and freshman, were pulled up from the junior varsity team just for this week’s spring break tournament. The round-robin tourney features 4 games in two days and more arms were a must for the Radiers (3-2).

“Phenomenal, I couldn’t ask for anything more,” Atlee coach Will Hicks said. “He battled, got out of tough spots and we played good defense behind him. He kept the ball down, threw strikes. He really helped our ball club out.”

Third baseman T.J. Daneker led the Raiders’ offensive attack as he went 3 for 3 with a double, three RBI and a run. Only a week and half ago the junior had surgery on an injured knee.

“I was mainly just trying to score the run,” Daneker said. “Came up a couple of times with runners in position and I just tried to get the job done.”

With Atlee leading 5-4 in the bottom of the fifth inning and with two outs senior catcher Hank Garthright busted the game open with a two-run single.

Ryan Kontra, Taylor Sandefur and Chase Worthington also added an RBI each for the Raiders.

Colton Warren had two RBI and scored two runs, pitcher Chris King had an RBI and Justin Clay went 2 for 4 with an RBI for the Generals (2-2), ranked fifth in the latest DigitalSports Top 10.

“Overall I didn’t like our approach at the plate,” Dinwiddie coach Shawn Wynn said. “We hit into 2 or 3 double plays and that took the momentum away from us.”

Dinwiddie    211 000 0 – 4 8 1
Atlee           302 022 x – 9 9 1
King, N. Christopher (5) and Warren; Freeman and H. Garthwright. W: Freeman. L: King.
Records: Dinwiddie (2-2); Atlee (3-2)

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Gwaltney Bombs L-D

Posted on 27 March 2008 by redwan123.

by Stephen M. Lewis
DigitalSports Richmond

Matt Gwaltney blasted two home runs and posted five RBI to lead Matoaca over Lee-Davis 8-4 Thursday afternoon in the Spring Break Blast.

The designated hitter finished 4 for 4. His other two hits were singles as his team went on to finish the Spring Break Blast unbeaten, collecting four wins in two days after taking down Atlee 15-6 in Thursday’s capper.

“They just came off the bat real well,” Gwaltney said of his round-tripers. “I was just seeing the ball real good. They just got out I guess. We all hit good today. It felt good.”

Said Matoaca coach Fred Stoots of Gwaltney: “He broke his foot in the spring of 2007. He broke his foot in the ball. He is just DH’ing right now. He’s probably my best arm, too.”

Michael Howerton‘s arm is not bad, either.

After Matoaca, ranked ninth in the latest DigitalSports Top 10, went ahead 6-0, four of the runs off of Gwaltney’s bat, Lee-Davis responded with a four-run second on starter Brandon Lindsey.

Howerton relieved Lindsay in the third and the Confederates would muster no more runs. Howerton gave up three hits in five shutout innings, constantly deleting possible L-D rallies.

The No. 6 Confederates left 14 runners on base, including 11 in scoring position, in part because of Howerton’s pitching.

L-D couldn’t take advantage of the effort of their own reliever, Brandon Powers, as he pitched five strong for the Confederates.

“He’s only a sophomore,” Stoots said. “He played good. He did a great job.”

Matoaca   330 001 1 – 8 7 1
Lee-Davis 004 000 0 – 4 6 4
Lindsey, Howerton (3) and Davis, Peterson (5); Smith, Powers (3) and Musser.
Records: Matoaca (4-1); Lee-Davis (3-2)

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Hacker, Confederates Win

Posted on 26 March 2008 by redwan123.

by Stephen M. Lewis
DigitalSports Richmond

Lee-Davis took the lead on Andrew Hacker‘s two-RBI double in the third inning and didn’t look back, defeating Benedictine 6-3 Wednesday night in the Spring Break Blast.

Down 1-0, shortstop Hacker took Mike Goldberg‘s two-out pitch up the gut bringing in Will Connerley and Jordan Walton.

“He’s a player. He’s pretty stealy,” Lee-Davis coach Kenny Lewis said of Hacker, who finished 3 for 3 at the plate with two doubles. “He likes to get mixed up in the action, you know how kids are, they kind of look up to that.”

Lee-Davis pitcher Nick Frame helped himself in the next inning, stroking a two-out RBI single for a 3-1 lead.

Frame, stepping into a loaded pitching fraternity of the Capital District, calmed down after a bunch of early walks to control a powerful Benedictine lineup.

That was until the Cadets looked to put together one of their patented big innings like they did late in a win over Atlee hours earlier, dropping six on the Raiders in the eighth inning.

Chris Hogan drilled a no-doubt homer over the left-field fence – he also had one to left against Atlee – to bring the Cadets within one.

Mark Measell singled, ending Frame’s evening, and Teddy Kozak followed with another single.

Goldberg, Benedictine’e leadoff hitter, looked to keep the momentum going, hitting a rope off of reliever Taylor Marshall.

But Hacker got up from his shortstop spot to nab the sure hit.

Marshall got the powerful Taylor Buran to flyout on the next at-bat to end the inning.

“It went off the end of his bat,” Hacker said of what could have been a game-saving play. “I thought it was going to be over my head. So I just ran back a little bit and jumped up about two inches up in the air and caught it.”

L-D, ranked sixth in the latest DigitalSports Top 10, went and got some insurance in the bottom of the sixth.

B.J. Mortimer painted an RBI triple down the first-base line, then pinch hitter Johnny Dip crushed an RBI double up the middle for a 5-2 lead.

Connerley ended L-D’s scoring with an RBI single to drive in Dip.

Hacker cleaned up in the seventh giving up one run to make L-D pitching coach Tripp Metzger‘s pregame proclamation true.

He told DigitalSports the score would be Lee-Davis 6-3.

Wow. Metzger’s now searching for some lottery numbers.

Benedictine 010 001 1 – 3 8 1
Lee-Davis    002 103 x – 6 9 1
Goldberg, Pusey (6) and Broaddus; Frame, Marshall (6), Hacker (7) and Connerley.
Records: Benedictine (n/a); Lee-Davis (3-1)

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Big Eighth Leads Cadets

Posted on 26 March 2008 by redwan123.

by Stephen M. Lewis
DigitalSports Richmond

Chris Hogan blasted a two-run home run in the eighth inning, in only his second at-bat of the season, and Kevin Buran followed with a grand slam to lead Benedictine over Atlee 10-5 Wednesday afternoon in the Spring Break Blast.

“With the bases loaded I was just expecting to go up there and make some contact,” said Buran, who finished 4 for 5 in the first of two games on the day (Benedictine fell to Lee-Davis in the nightcap. Click here for details.) “Do something, maybe get one run in and it just happened to go out.”

A lot of balls reached Atlee’s parking lot, five to be exact, four bombs coming from Benedictine.

Will Swoope went deep to give the Cadets a 2-0 lead in the third inning. Tucker Pool followed with a jack in the fourth inning, giving Benedictine a 3-0 lead.

The Raiders responded to tie the contest in the bottom of the fourth.

Taylor Sandefur, who pitched 7 1/3 good innings, knocked in Chase Worthington from second with a single.

Then sophomore third baseman Austin Young followed with his own home run, a two-run shot. It was a brand new ballgame.

“The thing that I don’t like and like at the same time is that they’re scrappy,” Benedictine coach Sean Ryan said of Atlee. “They did a spectacular job of forcing us to do things we don’t normally do.”

Benedictine responded with a run in the fifth, and Atlee duplicated the feat in the sixth before both squads squandered runners in the seventh in bids to put the game away.

That’s when Benedictine dropped a six-spot on the Raiders.

Benedictine 101 110 06 – 10 12 0
Atlee           000 301 01 –   5  6  1
West, K. Buran (6), Pusey (8) and Broaddus; Sandefur, Worthington (8) and H. Garthright.
Records: Benedictine (n/a); Atlee (1-2)

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Heavy Hitting Wins Game For Hermitage

Posted on 26 March 2008 by redwan123.

by Chris Naquin
DigitalSports Richmond

It was all about heavy hitting for the Hermitage Pathers as they defeated the Dinwiddie Generals after five innings at home 16-5 Wednesday afternoon due to slaughter rule.

There were a total of 11 runs scored in the first inning.

The first two runs would be for Dinwiddie, one coming from an RBI double by catcher Colton Warren who knocked in right fielder Nick Christopher to go up 2-0 on the Panthers in the first.

The Panthers would come roaring back, knocking in nine runs by the end of the first inning.

During the rally, Hermitage pitcher Darren McLeod hit a RBI single and right fielder Darren Britt knocked in three more runs for the Panthers off his single into right field.

Hermitage would go up 9-2 off of Ryan Swartz‘s RBI single to end the first inning.

The Panthers scored two more runs in the third inning on another Swartz hit, this time a double into center field.

“We came in and got off a lot of hits,” McLeod said. “We started off real strong with the bats and started off with a big inning that kept us going the rest of the game.”

The Generals made a strong attempt at a comeback in the fourth inning scoring three runs but were quickly silenced by a grand slam hit by Hermitage right fielder Darren Britt making the score 16-5 heading into the fifth ininng.

Dinwiddie had one last chance to knock in some runs but were shut down by the Panthers closer Scott Schibner, who ended the game in the fifth.

Hermitage went on to lose to Matoaca 11-0 in the nightcap.

Dinwiddie  200 30 –   5  9 1
Hermitage 902 5x – 16 12 0
Christopher, Barwick (3), Miller (4) and Warren; McLeod, Schibner (5) and Swartz
Records: Dinwiddie (1-1), Hermitage (1-2)

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Chiefs Down Monarchs

Posted on 26 March 2008 by redwan123.

by Seneca Contomanolis
DigitalSports Richmond

Bruce Bower had not had a hit yet this season.

Now the Monacan left fielder has four.

Bower went 4 for 4 with three doubles and three RBI as the Chiefs defeated Meadowbrook 11-6 in the L.C. Bird tournament on Wednesday.

“I kept my head in,” Bower said. “Before I kept pulling my head out and today coach [Doug] Toombs worked with me in the cage and I just came through. Kept my head in there.”

Monacan (2-3) scored five runs in the seventh to bust open a tied game that was far from a thing of beauty as the teams combined for eight errors. Meadowbrook (0-4) contributed five of the blunders and were really hurt by them in the opening and final innings.

“There were errors all around,” Monacan coach Andy Daniel said. “I know we are a better baseball team than that. Some how we hung on.”

The Chiefs scored in the top of the first inning without getting a hit as back-to-back errors on pop ups in the infield led to two runs against Monarchs starter Todd Atkinson.

Bower drove in Monacan’s third run with a double in the second inning that scored Logan Staib from third base.

Chiefs starter Michael McCollum cruised through the first two innings then in the third Meadowbrook used three hits and two stolen bases to manufacture two runs.

“I’ve got a good group and they work hard,” Meadowbrook coach John Grubb said. “They battle.”

Monacan went up 6-2 in the top of the fifth inning scoring all three runs with two outs.

With runners on first and second base McCollum doubled in a run and third baseman Ryan Oliver followed with his own double that bounced off the top of the outfield fence and back into play to drive in two.

The error bug caught the Chiefs in the bottom of the inning and it allowed Meadowbrook to score four runs to even the contest.

After a single by the Monarchs’ Sean Lee led off the inning back-to-back errors at second base on attempted double plays resulted in the bases being loaded with no outs.

A pass ball scored Lee and after a strikeout, intentional walk and a pop out it looked like McCollum might be able to wiggle his way out of trouble.

But Meadowbrook left fielder Tony Domowicz had other plans and he hit a double that brought in two runs and that scored a third on the throw to second base.

The score remained tied until the seventh when Monacan broke it open thanks to three more Monarchs’ errors.

With one out consecutive errors and a single loaded the bases. A sharp grounder down to third by James Lawrence was not handled cleanly by the third baseman allowing a run to score and the bases to still remain full.

A single by Jordan Calfee and a sac fly by Dustin Woody both brought in a run each and then Bower hit his third double of the afternoon to bring in the final two runs.

“We let them get too many runs in the last inning,” Grubb said. “We gave them too many outs. We should have been out of the inning.”

Lawrence, on in relief since the sixth inning, walked the first three Meadowbrook batters in the seventh but Cam Shaw replaced him and struck out three in a row to end the game.

Theron Yancey went 2 for 2 for the Monarchs.

Monacan          210 030 5 – 11 10 3
Meadowbrook  002 040 0 –  6   8  5
McCollum, Lawrence (6), Shaw (7) and Woody; Atkinson, Blakley (7) and Rogers. W: Lawrence. L: Atkinson.
Records: Monacan 2-3; Meadowbrook 0-4

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Moore, Thomas Dale Roll

Posted on 26 March 2008 by redwan123.

The Thomas Dale Knights defeated the Hopewell Blue Devils 10-1 in Tuesdays afternoon game.

Thomas Dale pitcher Ryan Moore pitched a complete game striking out five Hopewell batters and only allowing three hits.

The Knights did their job at the plate as well.

David Hernandez went 2 for 3 with a home run and four RBI for the Knights and Jordan Rush went 1 for 2 with 2 RBI.

The Blue Devils only run came from Ryan Bradshaw who went 1 for 3 with a RBI.

Adam Capps also had a hit for Hopewell as he also went 1 for 3 in the game.

Thomas Dale improves their record to 3-1 this season as Hopewell now drops to 0-4.

Hopewell      100 000 0 – 1   3   3
Thomas Dale 530 011 x – 10 10 2
Spoon, Koedyker(2), Pisarek (5) and Pisarek, Magee; Moore and Carter, Billeter.
Records: Hopewell 0-4; Thomas Dale 3-1

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Varina Beats Henrico 13-9

Posted on 25 March 2008 by redwan123.

by Chris Naquin
DigitalSports Richmond

The Varina Blue Devils beat the Henrico Warriors 14-9 in Tuesday afternoon’s Kassidy Hahn Memorial Day Tournament consolation game at Colonial Heights.

Both teams were looking for a win after previous losses, especially Varina who lost to Matoaca the day before in the last inning of play.

Henrico went up 2-0 in the first inning, stealing home twice off of wild pitches thrown by Varina’s Kasey Shumaker.

Varina answered back in the second inning scoring six runs.

Varina’s right fielder Katy Brown started the rally by hitting an RBI single to tie the game 1-1.

Catcher Heather Pike would also help the Blue Devils as she hit an RBI double to bring in two more runs putting Varina on top 3-1.

The Blue Devils scored three more runs to take the lead in the third inning off of wild pitches thrown by Henrico’s Jessica Lantz.

Later in the inning, Henrico added another run off of an in-the-park home run hit by center fielder Kayla Page to make the score 6-3 in favor of Varina heading into the third inning.

In the third inning Varina took their biggest lead of the game.

The Blue Devils scored eight runs in the inning, one came from second baseman Megan Allensworth, who hit an RBI single, and another from Brown, who hit an RBI double to take a 14-3 lead over the Warriors.

“We did well hitting and getting ahead,” Shoemaker said. “We always do really well if we just jump on it.”

Henrico came back strong in the fourth and fifth inning scoring a total of six runs.

One was another in-the-park home run hit by shortstop Kristina Caldwell as the Warriors came back to within four heading into the final two innings of play.

Varina was able to shut out Henrico in the sixth and seventh inning not allowing a come-from-behind win due to great pitching by Shumaker as Varina won the game 14-9.

Varina   068 000 0 – 14 15 4
Henrico 210 330 0 –   9 13 3
Shumaker, Edwards (4) Shumaker (5) and Pike; Lantz, Davis (3) and Burges
Records: Varina (2-5); Henrico (1-5)

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