Inez, Ky. — Lawrence County High Baseball ( 15-11 ) split two contests with former 57th District foe Martin Co. and Johnson Central earlier this week.
Boedy Maynard cranked a homer at Martin County.
Lawrence Co. 6 Martin Co. 1 ( Tuesday )
Boedy Maynard hit his second homer of the year to lead the Dawgs past the Cardinals on the road.
Freshman Eli Caudill went six innings to get the victory, allowing eight hits, one run, struck out four and walked none. Grant Cochran pitched the final inning to close it out.
Max Murriell went 3-3 with a double, two runs scored and one RBI, Braxton Davis had three hits as well and scored a run.
Owen Pack singled and drove in one, Maynard homered, had two RBI’s and scored a run, Cochran singled, scored a run and drove in one, Gray Derifield singled, Maddox Fletcher scored a run.
Johnson Central 5 Lawrence Co. 4 ( Monday )
The Golden Eagles defeated the Bulldogs in extra innings in Louisa.
Johnson Central scored a run in the top of the eighth inning on a bloop single to beat the Dawgs.
The Dawgs sent in to extra innings on a perfect hit and run off the bat of Grant Cochran that scored Gray Derifield all the way from first to tie it up at 4 apiece.
Boedy Maynard stayed for the Dawgs and went seven innings allowing nine hits, three earned runs, struck out four and walked two and got the no decision. Braxton Davis pitched the eighth and allowed one run, two hits, walked one and struck out two.
Gray Derifield smacked his first career homer against Johnson Central.
Gray Derifield had two hits and hit his first career home run, scored two runs as well, Grant Cochran had two doubles and two runs batted in, Owen Pack singled and scored a run, Eli Caudill singled and drove in one run, Braxton Davis singled, CJ Whitt scored a run.
The Bulldogs will have two more games this week against tough competition when #3 in Class 4A George Washington from the mountain state comes to Louisa for a 6:00 game Friday and 16th Region favorite Ashland visits on Saturday at Noon.
Bulldog Head Coach Travis Feltner
COACH’S COMMENTS
“… Tough home loss against Central. Fine line between winning and losing evenly matched teams. We have been battle tested and have plenty more of those over the remainder of our schedule. We’ve continued this week being great on the mound and defensively and that is who we are and that is what is going to carry us into a region title run.”
“… Martin Co presented a different type of challenge their guy on the mound did a great job of being in the strike zone and keeping us off balance. But freshman Eli Caudill matched that and more and we made several big plays defensively for him.”
