Red Bay captures county baseball title
The Red Bay Tigers won the Franklin County baseball tournament this year in easy fashion. The tournament’s blind draw format put the Tigers in the position to have to play three games in one evening to take home the title on their home diamond.
Not only did Red Bay win the tournament, the Tigers dominated. Red Bay didn’t allow a single run all afternoon outscoring their three opponents by a combined 43-0.
Red Bay routed Vina 19-0 in the first game of the tournament. Then the Tigers shutout Tharptown 16-0 in the semifinals to advance to the championship game.
Phil Campbell beat Belgreen 11-2 in the semifinals to advance to face the Tigers in the championship game. Red Bay would go on to win 8-0 just before the clock struck midnight.
In the first game against Vina, Red Bay piled up 16 hits and limited the Red Devils to just one. Jeremiah Thorne and Landyn Lewey each had three hits in the game. Carson McGee and Ayden Pruitt had two hits each. Thorne and Pruitt had two doubles each. McGee, Lewey and Riley Carpenter each had a double.
Landon Petree got the win on the mound. He allowed no runs, no hits and struck out nine.
In the second game, Red Bay scored 16 runs on 16 hits. Lewey went 4-for-4 with three RBIs and scored twice at the top of the lineup. Thorne, McGee and Carpenter all had two hits. Thorne scored three times and doubled.
Lewey got the win on the mound pitching three innings and allowing no runs on just one hits while striking out seven.
In the other semifinal game between Phil Campbell and Belgreen, the Bobcats scored 11 runs on nine hits and took advantage of five errors by the Bulldogs to win 11-2.
Issac Duboise was dominant on the mound pitching a complete game one-hitter and striking out 11. The only two runs scored by the Bulldogs were unearned as a result of fielding and throwing errors.
The game was scoreless through three innings before Phil Campbell broke through with a run in the fourth, adding five more in the fifth. Belgreen scored twice in the bottom of the sixth, but the Bobcats put the game away with five more runs in the top of the seventh.
Chandler Benford scored three of the Bobcats runs and had a hit and RBI. Duboise had a single, double and two RBIs. Hagen Raper had two hits and two RBIs. Keeton Baker had a single, RBI and scored twice. Sage Morgan had two hits.
In the championship game, Red Bay scored eight runs on six hits and limited Phil Campbell to just two hits.
Lewey had a single and double with two RBIs and scored a run. Pruitt had a single, two RBIs and scored twice.
McGee was dominant on the mound, allowing no runs on two hits and striking out 16 Bobcats.
In other baseball news this week, Phil Campbell beat Winston County 13-1 and Tharptown beat Phillips 11-0. Christopher Fretwell threw a perfect game allowing no hits, no runs, no walks while striking out 11.
