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JV unable to top Liberty at home under the lights
Posted by Rich Kinsley on
Apr 11 2018
at
05:00PM PDT
in 2019 Varsity
The Scheduling Gods were not kind to the Trojan 9 as they faced another top opponent on Thursday Night at Parkland’s Home Field against Liberty. With springtime temperatures finally in the air and with a delayed 6pm start, the crowd was larger than normal. Liberty was able to take an early lead with some timely 2 out hitting and some tough to handle hits. After one inning of play, Liberty had a 3 to 0 lead. The Trojan JV Bats took a while to get started as Liberty had a hard throwing pitcher who was able to hit the expanded corners that the umpire had provided. T hey didn’t get their first hit until 2 outs in the 2nd inning when catcher Jack Giovenco took a 2 strike fastball and sent it right back past the pitcher into centerfield. In the 3rd inning of play, after Chris Lessel got on base with a walk, he eventually reached 3rd with 2 outs where a timely hit by Nikhil Patel drove him home. Josh Miiller, who started on the mound began to gain some steam as he had retired 8 batters in a row, but the bottom of the ‘Canes lineup was able to hit balls just out of the reach of the Parkland defense, thus increasing the score to 4 to 1. Josh pitched an effective 5th inning to end his night on the mound. The defensive play of the game for Parkland was a nice backhand by shortstop Parker Swartz who threw across the diamond, where TJ Khela made a beautiful scoop to end the inning. Freshmen hurlers Joe Algard and Owen Lehr showed some success with good velocity and hitting the spots, but some timely and well located hits had the Liberty JV squad with a 6 to 2 lead going into the bottom of the 7th. Josh Miiller had a deep line drive to left field knocking in the 2nd run so with the Trojan squad finally starting to make good contact, it looked like a big comeback was in the works in the final inning of play. Luke Dauberman was hit by pitch which brought up Owen Lehr, who promptly hit a line drive single to left field. After a fielders choice, with runners on first and third, Nick Ernst hit a shot that travelled deep into the left centerfield alley enabling the fleet footed Lessel to score from first making the score 6 to 4. The Trojan 9 were not able to get any more after that and Liberty pulled out the win.
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