Baseball roundup: Rebels improve to 8-0
Published 10:47 pm Monday, March 1, 2010
Chilton County, Isabella and Thorsby played two baseball games on Feb. 27.
CCHS and Isabella both dropped their games, but Thorsby picked up two home wins, defeating Reeltown 9-1 and Maplesville 13-4.
The Rebels are now 8-0 on the season.
Brantley Bice (3-0) was the winning pitcher against Reeltown, allowing the one run on three hits in seven innings while striking out nine.
Bice was also 2-for-4 at the plate with two runs scored and one RBI.
Drew Minor went 4-for-4 with a double, one run and one RBI.
Cody Carroll (3-0) earned the win in the Maplesville game. Carroll pitched a complete game and allowed three hits and three walks while striking out 10.
Bice was 2-for-3 at the plate, and Blake Elkins had a home run and one other hit in his five at-bats.
Chilton County, meanwhile, held a 3-1 lead going into the fourth inning but surrendered four runs in the frame and lost, 5-3, at Hillcrest-Tuscaloosa.
Chance Calloway suffered the loss in the game.
The Tigers (1-7) were trying to salvage a split on the day, having already lost to Hillcrest, 15-5.
Ben Handley was tagged with the loss in that game despite allowing only two earned runs in five innings pitched.
Craig Headley went 3-for-4 with a home run in the game.
Blake Norman had two base hits in three at-bats in the Prattville game.
Isabella also held an early lead, 4-0 over Leeds, but lost it in a 9-4 defeat.
The Mustangs (3-5) scored all of their runs in the first inning at Leeds.
Sawyer Cahalane, Allen Edwards and Austin Haigler all drove in runs for Isabella.
Haigler also pitched a complete game and was the losing pitcher.
Isabella then suffered an even tougher loss, 13-12 to Vinemont.
Sean Haigler led off Isabella’s half of the seventh inning with a triple, but was doubled up when Cahalane’s line drive up the middle was caught by the pitcher and the ball was thrown over to third base.
Sean Haigler went 3-for-4 with two triples, and Blake Lawley was 2-for-2 with a home run, a double and five RBI.