Parkland High School Baseball

Seeing snowflakes during pre-game BP and during infield/outfield warmups is never what a fan hopes for when they arrive at the ballpark during Baseball season, however, that was the case tonight as the game time temperature was about 40 degrees at first pitch for this one at the Trojan Sandlot. Fortunately the Trojans starting pitcher Adam Smith did not let the conditions affect his command and was on fire while working efficiently with battery mate George Jenkins to strike out 9 Vikings against 3 walks giving up 0 earned runs and 0 HITS over 7 innings for a NO HITTER! The lone Viking run crossed the plate in the first inning after the lead off batter walked stole second then third and scoring on an error. Smith seemed to get stronger as the game went on and showed excellent command of his arsenal inducing weak contact for most of the evening. The lone true threat to break up the NoNo Smith was spinning came in the Top of the 6th when the lead off batter seemingly stroked the ball though the hole between 1st & 2nd when CK Kinsley dove gloved the ball on the lip of the outfield grass and fired to first for the out preserving the NoNo for Smith though 6 innings of play. Adam Smith then made sure that there were no balls put in play in the Top of the 7th striking out the side to cap what the Trojan offense would ensure to be a NoNo in the Bot of the 7th.

The Trojan Offense was not quite as cold as the weather on this night, they were once again timely. The Vikings actually held the lead 1-0 until the Bot 3 when Adam Mellinger reached on an error and advanced to second, he then scored on a Will Algard single to tie it at 1-1. Offensively Will Algard (3 singles) Joseph Webber and Dylan Miller provided all of the Trojans 5 hits in this contest. The stage was set in the Bot 7 for another walk off win when Will Algard led off with a single, and with heads up base running advanced to 3rd on a sac bunt from Matthew Ervolina and with Algard on third Jeremy Piatkiewicz hit a ball to short that was misplayed while Algard scored making it 2-1 and securing the third Trojan walk off win of this young season.