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THE EAST COBB TROJANS SOAR OVER THE SCRA
EAGLES WITH A 9-0 SHUTOUT VICTORY
On a beautiful late
Fall day the East Cobb Trojans began their day in the USTBA Fall State
Championship with starting pitcher Matt Swanson taking the mound. Matt delivered
a 1-2-3 inning with nice pitching and good help in the field. Matt pitched three
scoreless innings in front of the solid Trojans defense. The whole Trojan
batting order delivered with good hitting in the first three innings, with great
hits by Kyle Stanley, Brady Souther and a two run blast by Eddie Hernandez - we
think it landed in Tennessee - in the third, giving the boys a 7-0 lead,
increased by another run on hard baserunning by Devin McCleskey.
Going into the fourth inning with an 8-0 lead, Coach Gregory handed the
ball to Taylor Giles to take over. Good pitching and a sweet 6-4-3 double
play by Kyle Stanley, Cameron Gregory and saved by Eddie's stretching grab at
first, kept the Eagles off the board going into the bottom of the fourth inning.
Tyler Heinrichs led off for the Trojans in the bottom of the fourth inning and
bombed a shot way over the center field fence taking the lead to
9-0. Michael Ward, backed by another very well-turned 6-4-3 double
play by Marky Mark Ankerholz, Kyle Stanley and Brady Souther, finished out the
shutout victory for the Trojans.
EAST COBB TROJANS GO DOWN 4-0 TO
THE MILL CREEK HAWKS
Eddie Hernandez brought the heat to
the Mill Creek Hawks as the Trojans starting pitcher for game two. Scoring one
run on a passed ball, the Hawks took a 1-0 lead into the bottom of the first and
retired the Trojans' lead off batters in order. The Hawks took advantage of a
nice double and a passed ball to score another run to go to 2-0 after one and a
half innings.
The Trojans managed to load the bases on a nice hit by Eddie,
a blooper by Matthew Scott and a bruising hit-by-pitch of Matt Swanson. This
brought hard hitting Tyler Heinrichs up with two outs, but a tough rundown at
third ended the Trojans' inning before Tyler could complete his at-bat. Coming
up in the bottom of the third Tyler hit a single to lead off, but in the fourth
baserunning oddity for the game, he was hit by Kyle Garrard's base hit and was
out by rule for the first out of the inning. The Trojans again could not put up
a run despite having baserunners in scoring position, and went into the fourth
inning down 2-0 in a very well-pitched game by both teams.
Eddie mowed
down the Hawks batters in the top of the fourth and Brady Souther drew a walk to
draw first blood in the bottom of the fourth. Again, with runners on second and
third, the Trojans came up short. Reliever Devin McCleskey took the ball and, a
strikeout and two nice plays by Kyle Stanley at shortstop later, took down the
Hawks in order to keep the score of this tight game at 2-0. D-Train McCleskey
kept the Hawks off the board with the Trojans up to bat in the bottom of the
sixth inning.
Fortunately (or unfortunately, depending on your
perspective) the boys went down in order which allowed enough time for a final
seventh inning to be played. The Hawks managed to pick up two runs on a nice
triple by their shortstop and handed the Trojans a 4-0 deficit coming up in the
bottom of the final inning. The Trojans bats were unable to bridge the gap and
the boys took their first loss in a very close game against a very solid
team.
GO TROJANS!!!!!!!
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