Cardinal offensive outburst leads to win
MAGNET COVE – With a 2-1 lead after two innings, the Harmony Grove Cardinals put up a 9-spot in the third and did not stop scoring in an eventual 18-11 victory over the Magnet Cove Panthers Friday morning in the Magnet Cove Spring Break Tournament.
The Cardinals (9-3), which played Woodlawn Friday afternoon in the tourney, banged out 17 hits in the high-scoring affair in the morning win.
Harmony Grove picked up a run in the top of the first inning when senior Chase Chilton reached on a two-out single and scored on junior West Lock’s double before Magnet Cove tied things up in the bottom of the inning on a two-out solo home run.
Cardinal junior Lucas
Seely doubled to begin the top of the second and senior courtesy runner Hayden Toler scored on senior Trey Miller’s RBI single for the 2-1 lead, which it remained after two.
The Cardinals put two runners on with two outs in the top of the third before junior Hayden Lumpkins was hit by a pitch to load the bases. Miller walked to force in a run and senior Cooper White scored on an error for the
5-1 lead. Still with two outs, junior Troy Potter hit a 2-run double, junior Bo Gault FOLBRYANT
lowed with an RBI double and Lock singled in two more before White singled in one for the 11-1 lead.
The Panthers fought back, though, scoring five runs apiece in the third and fourth innings to tie things at 11-all before the Cardinals retook the lead in the top of the fifth when Chilton scored on an error and Miller hit a basesclearing double for the 15-11 lead.
Harmony Grove added a run in the sixth on Chilton’s RBI single and three more in the seventh on Potter’s 2-run double and Chilton’s single to left again to set the final score.
Chilton had a monster game going 5 for 6 with a double, three runs and two RBIS, adding four stolen bases on the day. Potter went 4 for 6 with two doubles, three runs and three RBIS, swiping two bags of his own.
Lock finished 3 for 5 with a double and three RBIS, with Miller knocking in five runs while going 2 for 3.