Patriots win four in busy week
By Butch Lawson
Enterprise sports
The Pinewood baseball team ran the table in a busy four-game stretch of games last week. Included in that quartet of victories was a pair of important region 4-AAA wins.
PCA began the week by notching its first victory of 2010 with a 6-5 extra-inning decision over Bulloch Academy. The Patriots needed nine innings to turn back the visiting Gators. Chase Purvis laced a single to left to provide the game-winning run.
Bulloch Academy had taken a 4-3 lead into the bottom of the sixth. Stephen Arnold’s solo homerun tied the score for PCA. The Patriots would add another run in the sixth.
The Gators would send the contest into extra innings with a run in the seventh to knot the score at 5-5.
Jordan Nobles and Taylor Lewis had two hits apiece for Pinewood.
Tuesday afternoon in Bellville, the Patriots pounded visiting Augusta Prep 10-0 in its region opener. PCA had 11 hits and Chase Purvis hurled a three-hit shut-out in the victory.
PCA jumped on top early with three runs in the first. A double by Jordan Nobles and a single by Kameron Tatum were the key hits.
Nobles, Tatum, Cole Callaway and Taylor Lewis had two hits each.
Friday in Augusta, Pinewood defeated region opponent Westminster 12-1 in five innings. The Patriots exploded for nine runs in the fifth to blow open a tight contest.
PCA took advantage of four walks, two Wildcat errors and singles by Daniel Womack, Jordan Nobles, Taylor Lewis and Stephen Arnold to account for its nine-run outburst.
Nobles paced PCA with two hits and two RBI’s. Lewis had a pair of hits. Arnold drove in two runs.
Saturday Pinewood ripped Robert Toombs 11-0 for its fourth straight victory. PCA led from the outset with three runs in the first, six more in the second and three in the third.
Jordan Nobles hit a two-run homer in the second inning.
Daniel Womack and Jake Blocker had two hits and two RBI’s apiece. Chase Purvis was the winning pitcher.
The Patriots are now 4-2 for the season.
Tigers defeat ECI, Wheeler County
By Butch Lawson
Enterprise sports
Back-to-back wins on Thursday and Friday over ECI and Wheeler County improved the Claxton High School baseball team’s record to 6-8 for the season. Earlier in the week the Tigers fell to 2-4 in sub-region play with a 6-5 loss at Savannah Country Day.
The setback at Savannah Country Day moved CHS into a three-way tie for fourth place in the sub-region with a half-dozen 3-A East games remaining. In the defeat, Claxton fell behind early then went ahead 4-3 in the top of the fourth on a grand slam by sophomore Michael Peel. The Hornets reclaimed the lead in the bottom of the inning and held on for the victory.
Peel recorded two of Claxton’s three hits.
Claxton scored three times in the bottom of the seventh to slip past ECI 8-7. Hunter Rush’s pinch-hit single drove in the game-winner for CHS.
The Tigers entered the sixth down 7-4. CHS got one run back in that inning, but entered its final at-bat still facing a two-run deficit. Bishop Bullard led off the seventh and reached base as a hit-batsman. Chandler Jenkins followed with a single. Tyler Brazell laid down a sacrifice bunt with Dillon Rhodes up next and delivering a game tying two run single before Rush’s game winner.
Brandon Stanfield and Tyler Jenkins had two hits apiece. Bullard was the winning pitcher.
The Tigers broke open a tight contest with visiting Wheeler County with an eight-run fourth inning in a 16-7 victory. Claxton touched up Wheeler County pitching for 13 hits in the win.
CHS scored five runs in the bottom of the first on a single by Brandon Stanfield, Tyler Jenkins, Rick Hall and Bishop Bullard and a double by Hunter Rush. Michael Peel’s three-run homer was the key hit in the fouth inning.
Tyler Jenkins and Hall had three hits each. Stanfield was the winning pitcher.
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