The Golden Tigers have won the blue map for the third year in a row!
By Brannon King for the FCT
The Russellville Golden Tigers came into Thursday’s play at Montgomery’s Riverwalk Stadium knowing that they needed to win only one of two possible games to claim their third-straight Class 5A baseball state championship and they did just that. The Golden Tigers defeated the Faith Academy Rams for the second year in a row to claim the title and took the series clincher by a 7-4 score.
RHS won game one of the best-of-three series on Wednesday night behind the strong pitching of Cody Greenhill by a 9-1 advantage. The first game of the day on Thursday went the way of Faith by an 8-7 score when the Rams scored 3 runs in the top of the seventh inning after Russellville had taken the lead in the bottom of the sixth.
The Golden Tigers (38-10) jumped out to a 6-0 lead in the final game and held on to start the championship celebration on the field and in the stands. Skylar Holland got the win on the mound by going 6 innings and allowing 2 runs on 5 hits. Russellville RBIs in the deciding game came from Houston Kitterman, Landon Ezzell and Greenhill who had 2 apiece and Tom Barkley Scott drove in one. Greenhill was voted MVP after the conclusion of the series by the media.
