No. 2 Golden dominates in season opener

BY DENNIS PLEUSS JEFFCO PUBLIC SCHOOLS

GOLDEN — Senior Jaydon Hord started Golden’s baseball season with a bang March 15.

Hord absolutely obliterated a pitch in his rst at-bat of the season for a 3-run home run that nally landed in the trees well over the right-center eld fence at Golden High School.

“ at is probably the longest home run I’ve hit during high school,” Hord said after the Demons rolled to a 15-0 victory over Elizabeth that ended with the mercy rule after the top of the fourth inning. “I just saw the ball leaving and looked at the boys (dugout). I knew it was gone. I didn’t even watch it land.”

Hord had a team-high seven home runs last year during Golden’s 21-win season that ended in the Class 4A state tournament.

“ at was a long way to opposite eld,” Golden coach Jackie McBroom said of Hord’s blast. “We’ve been working on that. e things that we have been working on we executed today. It’s nice when you work on something and it translates over to the game. Now we just have to do that the next game.”

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