LCMS Baseball Action

By Jason Fite

The Lewis County Middle School Panthers hosted the Summertown Eagles on Monday, April 4 for afternoon baseball action.

Jalen Smith took the mound to start for the Panthers and issued walks to the first two Eagle batters he faced. With two on and no out in the first, the Eagles plated two with a single would plate another with a single and groundout to take a 3-0 lead. Smith was replaced by Dakota Hull with one out in the first and a runner on third. Hull surrendered a one-out single that scored a run and Summertown held a 4-0 lead after a half inning. Maddox Tanner led off the home first with a double to left and Hull followed with a single to center. Tanner would cross on a passed ball and Lewis County trailed 4-1 after one complete. Hull returned to the mound to start the second and gave up consecutive singles to plate a run, and another would score on a fielder’s choice to make it a 6-1 game. Kolt Skelton drew a leadoff walk in the second, but the Panthers would go down in order after and trailed by 5 after two. Hull worked a perfect third to keep the score 6-1. Tanner connected for a one-out double and came in to score on a two-out hit from Braylon Bean to make it a 6-2 ballgame. Hull put the Eagles down in order in the top of the fourth inning. Jaxon Long singled with one out in the bottom of the fourth, and Cayleb Moore reached on a tow out single ahead of walks to Phenix McDonald and Tanner that scored Long. With bases loaded and two out, Hull connected n a double to left center that would clear the bases and tie the game at 6. The Eagles would respond in the visitor fifth. A leadoff single and a double gave the Eagles a 1 run lead, and another run would cross on a one-out groundout, and 2 more would score on an error as the Eagles took a 10-6 lead. The Panthers would come up empty in the sixth. Kolt Skelton took the mound in the seventh and was greeted with a single and run-scoring double. Skelton would be replaced in the inning by Kegan Carroll-Clayton with one out, but the Eagles had runners in scoring position and would plate 3 total runs in the inning to take a 13-6 lead. Nate James led off the home seventh with a double to left, but would not score as the Panthers went down 13-6.

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The Lewis County Middle School Panthers completed their home schedule against the Forrest Rockets on Friday, April 8.

Maddox Tanner drew the start on the mound for the Panthers and worked around a one-out single to keep the Rockets scoreless in the first. The Panthers would load the bases with no outs in the bottom of the first with a walk to Tanner, a single by Dakota Hull, and a walk to Braylon Bean, but came up empty and the game was scoreless after one complete. Back-to-back singles started the second for Forrest, and a run would cross on a groundout to make it 1-0. Tanner gave up a two-out walk and a two-out single that plated two more runs for the Rockets and the visitors took a 3-0 lead. Phenix McDonald reached on a two-out single in the second, but the Panthers were again kept off the board. The Rockets put runners aboard in the third with a pair of walks ahead of a pair of one-out singles to make it a 5-0 game. Kegan Carroll-Clayton came on to pitch and got the Panthers out of the jam, but the Rockets had built a 5-0 lead. Hull led off the home half of the third with a single to center, and Carroll-Clayton reached on a one-out single to right, but the Rockets again escaped the inning without the Panthers crossing the plate. Carroll-Clayton worked around a pair of walks that started the fourth to keep the Rockets from adding to their lead. Lewis County would get two baserunners in the bottom of the fourth with a one-out double by Cayleb Moore and a walk to Phenix McDonald, but the Panthers failed to push a run across and trailed by five. Carroll-Clayton struck out three in a row after a leadoff walk to shut down the Rockets in the fifth, and the Panthers reached on a Hull walk in the bottom half but were again held in check. Cayleb Moore relieved Carroll-Clayton in the sixth and struck out the side. In their final at bat, Lewis County went down in order and lost the game 5-0.