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MAY 18, 2018
Patriots baseball team knocks off Lions by Nate Smith Correspondent
After falling to Pittsburg on May 8, the Heritage baseball team had its back against the wall heading into the May 10 game against rival Liberty. The Patriots responded with one of their top performances of the year to down the Lions, 8-2, and regain control of the race for the Bay Valley Athletic League title. Heritage had fallen a game behind Liberty in the league standings with the May 8 loss and was tied for second with Freedom. The Patriots, though, forged a 3-0 lead after four innings and then blew the game open with a five-run sixth inning, cruising to the win at home and sweeping the season series against Liberty. While starting pitcher Bryson Kinnick was keeping Liberty off the scoreboard, the Heritage offense chipped away at Lions’ pitcher Justin Prince until the sixth inning when Tyler Winters replaced Prince on the mound. Winters got the first out of the inning, but Aidan Quinn got things started with a double for the Patriots. Ryan Jackson reached on an error, and Chaz Myers followed with a two-strike single to score Quinn. A throwing error allowed Jackson to score all the way from first for a 5-0 lead. Myers was caught stealing third for the second out of the inning. Back-to-back
Heritage’s Aidan Quinn slides into home to score a run during the Patriots’ 8-2 romp over rival Liberty. Heritage is in line to win a league title.
Photo by Tony Kukulich
batters were hit by pitches setting up Keith Jones who turned on a 2-0 fastball into a three-run homer. The Patriots took an insurmountable 8-0 lead over the Lions. “I was just looking for a fastball on the inside half, especially because I had seen fastballs early in the game,” Jones said. “I saw more off-speed pitches and stuff on the outside after I hit my double, but I felt they were going to try and challenge me in that situation. Once I hit it, I knew it was gone.” The three-run blast by Jones provided some breathing room. It allowed Heritage coach Kevin Brannan to go to his bullpen in the top of the seventh after Kinnick issued a one-out walk.
The move to lift Kinnick was not immediately successful. Riley Bosler drilled a two-run homer off senior Jack Erickson and the next two batters walked. Ryan Jackson then took the mound, and after loading the bases with another walk, he retired the next two batters to end the game. The victory put the Patriots on the top of the league standings. “Getting a win was big, and we knew coming in that we needed to wake up our bats, because our performance against Pittsburg was not acceptable,” added Quinn, who scored twice in the victory. “Bryson threw a gem, and when we have our bats going, we’re hard to beat.”
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Kinnick finished the game having gone six and one-third innings allowing four hits while striking out two. Prince allowed just three hits in five innings for Liberty, but four walks and three errors defensively proved to be damaging. Aside from Heritage’s win over Liberty, Freedom fell in an upset to Deer Valley, 3-2. Justin Tamelier was brilliant on the mound for the Wolverines who overcame an early 2-0 deficit to knock the Falcons into third place. Freedom and Liberty play next week, in a game that could have potential title ramifications. To view a slideshow, visit www.thepress. net/multimedia/slideshows
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