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South baseball ready for OVAC title shot

Photo Credit: Jay W. Bennett

SOUTH BASEBALL READY FOR OVAC TITLE SHOT

PARKERSBURG — First-year head baseball coach Todd Burner couldn’t ask for much more from his club. Despite poor weather conditions most of the spring, his Parkersburg South team will carry a 12-2 mark into today’s 7:30 p.m. Ohio Valley Athletic Conference 5A championship game at the I-470 Field versus speedy 14-3 Wheeling Park. The top-seeded Park Patriots have 49 stolen bases as a team and it looks like second-seeded South could very well start left-handed sophomore Colin Bryant, who threw a shutout against Morgantown this past Saturday in the semifinals. “The only pitcher we don’t really have available is Drew Cochran,” said coach Burner, who has eight players who could be in tonight’s lineup batting .333 or better. “We haven’t actually determined it, but more than likely, we’ll hand the ball back to Colin again. “It was his turn to come up Thursday night and we may just end up going with him.” PSHS was supposed to play at Brooke on Thursday evening, but the Bruins called to cancel the game just as the Patriots were about to leave Parkersburg. “We have not played them,” Burner added of the Wheeling Park Patriots. “We’re just going to go up there and play our game. We really haven’t heard too much about them. “We know they are a good team, but we haven’t seen them and Morgantown didn’t say much to us (about them).” Trevor Thomas (.393 AVG) leads Park in batting while Ben Taylor (.344 AVG) and Jarrod Jones (.350 AVG) share the team lead in RBIs with 13 apiece. Zack Kahle is also hitting .378 with 10 runs-batted-in for the No. 1 seed. Ben Menarchek is hitting .500 with 11 RBIs for South, which also could have in tonight’s lineup Cochran (.455 AVG), Todd Burner (.439 AVG, 3 HR, 19 RBIs), Nick Yoho (.409 AVG), Reece Fletcher (.391 AVG, 16 RBIs), Chase Freshour (.349 AVG, 14 RBIs), Bryce Eagle (.340 AVG, 16 RBIs) and Grant Hussey (.333 AVG, 2 HRs, 12 RBIs). “We’ve played about as many games as we’ve missed,” added coach Burner. “They’ve been getting better and better every week and our pitching has gotten better and better. That’s what we were worried about early in the season. “We are throwing strikes instead of walking half a dozen a game. If we throw strikes and hit, we’ll have a chance.”

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