Paintsville, Ky Lawrence Co. Baseball ( 10-8 ) dropped a 11-9 decision against Johnson Central ( 13-5 ) on Friday evening.
Senior Colin Howard was big in relief against Russell.
Lawrence Co. scored eight runs in the top of the first inning but couldn’t hold off the Golden Eagles.
Eli Fletcher doubled twice, drove in three runs and scored twice, Boedy Maynard singled twice, had two RBI’s and scored a run, Colin Howard doubled, had two runs batted in and scored a run, Gray Derifield singled, drove in one and scored a run, Tygar Cavins singled, Cam Perkins scored two runs and Alex Meadows and Logan Whisenant scored a run.
Maynard was the losing pitcher in relief of Whisenant and Derifield.
Lawrence Co. 9 Russell 7 ( Thursday )
Eli Fletcher came through once again this time with a walk-off homer versus Russell.
Eli Fletcher hit a three run walk-off homer to lift the Bulldogs to the home victory.
Colin Howard was the winning pitcher tossing four and 1/3 innings of relief, allowing one earned run, two hits and struck out two.
Fletcher had three hits, three runs batted in and scored three runs, Boedy Maynard doubled, Cam Perkins and Gray Derifield singled and scored two runs each, Logan Whisenant had two RBI’s and scored a run, Tygar Cavins had two RBI’s, Howard and Brady Caudill had one RBI each, Braxton Davis singled and CJ Whitt scored a run.
Lawrence Co. 7 Prestonsburg 4 ( Wednesday )
The Bulldogs moved to 4-0 in 58th District with the road victory over the Blackcats.
Braxton Davis helped the Bulldogs to a 4-0 start in District play.
Braxton Davis went all seven innings to get the victory, allowed seven hits, four earned runs and five strikeouts.
Cam Perkins singled twice, drove in two runs and scored once, Brady Caudill had two hits, one RBI and scored a run, Logan Whisenant had two hits and one RBI, Gray Derifield singled flex and scored two runs, Colin Howard singled and drove in a run, Tygar Cavins singled, Eli Fletcher scored two runs and Steve Hall scored once.
The Bulldogs will play five games this week beginning on Tuesday at home versus Belfry, Wednesday at home against Martin Co. on the road vs Morgan Co. on Thursday and home games vs Magoffin Co. on Friday evening and Fleming Co. on Saturday afternoon at 2:30.
Bulldog Head Coach Travis Feltner
“ At Pburg was a huge road win to put us in position to get the 1 seed if we can take care of business with Floyd Central. Several guys stepped up offensively and defensively
Braxton ( Davis ) wasn’t super sharp early but settled in well and did a tremendous job giving us back to back complete games.”
“ Russell and JC I felt like we were mentally not as sharp and didn’t play with the kind of Energy we saw the first 2 games this week.
Moving forward we’ve got to have that kind of energy consistently.”
“ Thursday night against Russell we got to witness something that doesn’t happen a lot in HS baseball with Eli’s ( Fletcher ) walk off HR. And it was no doubt soon as it left the bat. Glad he’s on our team and we don’t have to try to get him out. We didn’t exactly play our best game so it’s a really good thing when we can win games against a quality opponent on that kind of night. Colin Howard was huge on the mound going 4+ innings. He just pounds the strike zone and gets a ton of weak contact.”
“ Against Johnson Central on Friday night we jumped out to 8-0 lead in the first and then just never strung hits together again all night. JC hit 3 multi run HRs and we couldn’t overcome that.”
