By Malcolm Butler
Cedar Creek baseball defeated Jonesboro-Hodge 11-0 Monday night before falling 8-3 to St. Frederick on Tuesday night in high school baseball action.
In Tuesday night’s District 2-1A loss to the Warriors, the Cougars (4-15) outhit St. Frederick 8-6 in the contest but six errors by Cedar Creek led to five unearned runs, proving to be the difference in the game.
“I am proud of our guys going out and competing the whole game,” said head coach Trey Long. “We made some mistakes defensively that definitely hurt us but it still goes back to what I told them after the game. We have to be better offensively. We are getting runners on but then leave them stranded way too much. As a team we have to have more at bats for the team and less strikeouts, especially when we have runners in scoring position.”
Creek held an early 1-0 lead after three innings, but St. Frederick scored three in the fourth and two more in the fifth and then added three insurance runs in the seventh to pull out the win.
Ladd Thompson was 3-for-4 at the plate for Creek while Jordan Vail (1-3, RBI), JP Moak (1-1, 3 walks, run), Trent Franklin (1-3, RBI), Noah Durrett (1-4) and Max Brister (1-3, RBI) also contributed offensively.
Brady Wade, who threw 5.2 innings of no-hit baseball against OCS last week, allowed three unearned runs on three hits and two walks while striking out four.
In Monday night’s win over Jonesboro-Hodge, the Cougars scored 11 runs on just three hits, capitalizing on seven errors and eight walks by Tigers pitchers while Vail tossed a no-hitter in the victory.
“We didn’t have a very good game at the plate, but we found ways to get on base and score enough runs to get the win,” said Long. “I was very pleased with the way Jordan Vail pitched. He attacked the strike zone all game and ended up throwing a five inning no hitter.”
Vail was dominate on the mound, striking out 14 of the 15 outs in the game while allowing just one baserunner on a walk.
Thompson (1-3, 2B, RBI, run), Franklin (1-3, run, 2 RBI) and Durrett (1-2, 2B, run, RBI) all collected hits in the win for the Cougars.
