April 9, 2018
Myrtle Beach, SC. — Lawrence Co. Baseball won six games in six days and completed a perfect 6-0 mark over Spring Break in the Cal Ripken Experience. The Bulldogs are off to an 11-0 start to the season, the Dawgs best start since 2013 when they opened the season with 13 straight victories.
Lawrence Co. 17 Livonia, NY 0 ( Wednesday )
The Dawgs took care of the defending New York State champs in dominating fashion from the get go.
Kade Sword threw a 2 hit, five inning shutout, striking out 8, and walked none. Sword also went 2-3 with 4 runs batted in to help his cause, he also scored 3 times.
Austin Roe had 3 hits and 4 RBIs to pace the Bulldog offense.
Dakota Shortridge had 1 hit and 2 RBIs and scored 3 times, Jarrett Fairchild had a triple and 3 RBIs, Brad Parks had 1 hit, 2 RBIs and 2 runs scored. Also, Peyton Cyrus scored 2 runs and drove in 1, Bryce Blevins had 1 hit and 1 run scored, Jackson Feltner walked twice and scored 2 runs, Jacob Fletcher scored a run.
The Dawgs scored 2 in the first, 3 in the second and broke it open with 9 runs in the fourth inning.
Lawrence Co. 6 Fordham Prep, NY 5 ( Thursday )
Bulldog 8th Grader Bryce Blevins singled to left field and a sliding Jarrett Fairchild beat the throw home in the bottom of the seventh to to give the Dawgs a walk off 6-5 victory against the team from the Bronx.
Peyton Cyrus pitched the seventh to get the win. Tyler Maynard started and gave 4 runs in the first but nothing after. CJ Fairchild gave up 1 run in two innings of work.
Jarrett Fairchild scored 3 times and went 2-3 with 1 RBI, Brad Parks and Peyton Cyrus had 2 hits apiece including a double and 1 RBI each, Austin Roe 1 double and 1 RBI, Tyler Maynard 1 hit and 1 RBI, Kade Sword 1 RBI.
Lawrence Co. 7 Hancock Co. KY 4 ( Friday )
The Dawgs scored three times in the bottom of the sixth inning to make a winner out of reliever Jacob Fletcher who threw two hitless innings to pick up his second victory on the trip. Lucas Maynard went the first five innings.
The Dawgs trailed 3-0 before putting up a four spot in the fourth inning, Hancock Co. tied it at 4-4 in the fifth before the Dawgs took the lead for good in the sixth.
Jackson Feltner went 2-3 and knocked in 3 runs to pace the Bulldog offense.
Tyler Maynard had 2 hits including a double, Brad Parks had a double and scored twice, Austin Roe also doubled, Kade Sword had a hit and scored twice, Jarrett Fairchild scored a run and singled, Bryce Blevins scored a run.
Lawrence Co. will close out 58th District play this week when they host Floyd Central on Tuesday and then travel to play the Jaguars on Wednesday.
The Dawgs are 4-0 in District play this season.
Lawrence Co. Junior Varsity will travel to Tolsia Wednesday at 4:00.
Lawrence Co. Senior Brad Parks
LC SENIOR COMMENTS
“…On the way down to the Cal Ripken Experience we all knew we were going to play some good teams. We just took it one game at a time down there, saw a lot of great competition. Our pitchers all had great outings on the mound and that really helped us out. We all played great defense and swung the bats really well.”
“… Hopefully everything keeps working the way it has been, I think we will have a real good year.”
Lawrence Co. Senior Kade Sword
LC SENIOR COMMENTS
“…Felt good to go out on a high note. When we go down to the Ripken experience we’re ultimately just trying to better ourselves, get more experience, and build a lot of team chemistry and we did all three of those things.”
“… Right now we’re playing some great ball but we’ve still got a lot to improve on. Pitching against teams not from around here was a good experience. Just wanna try to build off of our good start but there’s still a whole lot of the season left to play.”
