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Parkersburg South High School Athletics

NEWS

PATRIOTS SCORE PLENTY VS. WARREN

PARKERSBURG — Host Parkersburg South pounded out 13 hits and erupted for six runs in the bottom of the sixth inning to halt the game as the Patriots posted a 12-2 baseball win over Warren Tuesday evening at Hank Greenburg Field. Despite blustery winds and the temperature in the 30s Tuesday, the Patriots wanted to get in an OVAC game versus Warren and hopefully another OVAC contest at 5 p.m. today as well at Greenburg with Fort Frye with OVAC tournament play beginning this weekend. And South got off to a good start Tuesday after Warren plated a run in the top of the first frame on a Seth Dennis walk and stolen base, a slow roller to second base for a putout at first base as Dennis advanced to third, from where he scored on a ball squirted toward third that the third baseman couldn’t pick up that went for an infield hit. Ben Menarchek, South’s leadoff hitter, drove the first pitch up the right-center field alley and raced around the bases for a triple. Todd Burner followed with a line-shot RBI single to left field to tie the score at 1-1. A Warrior throwing error put another runner on base and Reece Fletcher smacked a two-run double into the right-center gap too to plate two tallies to give the Patriots a 3-1 lead they wouldn’t relinquish the rest of the way. In the third though, Warren inched within 3-2 on a walk, stolen base and two errors before a three-run fourth for South. Caught in a rundown bewteen third base and home, the Patriot base-runner was able to dive in safely at home when the peg to the catcher was too late for the tag. Then Menarchek singled to center for an RBI and an E-5 fielding error let in another run to make it a 6-2 game. And finally in the sixth, South batted around to rack up runs 6 through 12 to end the game. Burner singled in a run, Bryce Eagle’s RBI infield single plated another tally, Chase Fletcher delivered a run-scoring sacrifice fly, Drew Cochran belted a two-run single and when Nathan Currey lined a RBI single to right field, the game was over. For South, three pitchers teamed up to hurl a two-hitter as starter Colin Bryant went the initial three innings, with Eagle coming on to work 2.1 innings and Fletcher .2 innings. “This is a game that we had to get in, so we could qualify for the OVAC tournament; we needed this game today and we needed the Fort Frye game tomorrow (Wednesday),” said South head coach Todd Burner. Pitching-wise, he added, “we gave up way too many walks (10) today. But hitting, that’s one thing we have been doing well all this season; it’s been our strength so far.” But Burner said for South, now 8-2, “our pitching is coming around — that was our big question mark at the beginning of the year, what the we’d be doing with our pitching?”

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