May 9, 2018
FAIRCHILD BROTHERS HOMER IN SAME INNING IN JOHNSON CENTRAL WIN
LOUISA, KY. — Brothers Jarrett and CJ Fairchild hit two run homers in the same inning and Peyton Cyrus induced a double play with the bases loaded in the seventh inning as Lawrence Co. (25-4) beat preseason 15th Region favorite Johnson Central 8-7 on Monday night at Randy Keeton Field.
The Dawgs jumped out to a 6-0 lead powered by the Fairchild brothers before the Golden Eagles scored seven unanswered to take a 7-6 lead in the 5th inning. Lawrence Co. answered right back with two in the bottom half to take the lead for good.
CJ Fairchild doubled in the winning runs and finished with 4 RBIs, Peyton Cyrus went 2-3 including a triple to leadoff the bottom of the first, Austin Roe collected 2 RBIs, Jackson Feltner went 2-3 and Tyler Maynard had one hit.
Cyrus picked up the victory in relief of starter Tyler Maynard and Kade Sword.
Johnson Central had won 10 out of the last 11 meetings with the Dawgs before last night.
Lawrence Co. 14 Sheldon Clark 0 ( Tuesday)
Peyton Cyrus hit his sixth homer of the year on the second pitch of the game and Jackson Feltner hit one in the sixth inning over the left field wall as the Dawgs scored eight runs to break open the game in a mercy shortened victory over Sheldon Clark in Inez.
Brad Parks threw five shutout innings and allowing four hits and striking out three. Lucas Maynard pitched a perfect sixth inning to finish it off.
Cyrus also had a triple and knocked in 2 runs, Parks had 2 hits and 1 RBI, Feltner had 2 hits and 4 RBIs, Jarrett Fairchild had 2 hits including a double, Tyler Maynard 2 hits including a double and 2 RBIs, CJ Fairchild scored twice, Jacob Fletcher had an RBI single, Samuel Collinsworth had 1 RBI.
Sheldon Clark had four hits on the night, one each from Will Lafferty, Blake Butcher, Dawson Jude and Drake Muncy.
Lawrence Co. 6 Spring Valley, W. Va. 0 ( Thursday )
At Randy Keeton field the Bulldogs honored the 2008 State Runner Up team before the game and then went out played like they did.
CJ Fairchild looked like Jeff Cyrus, Lewis Micheal and Chandler Shepherd did in 2008 with a complete game shutout against the Timberwolves.
Fairchild struck out 8 and allowed 3 hits.
Lawrence Co. 5 Rowan Co. 0 ( Friday )
The Dawgs traveled to Morehead and Bryce Blevins was outstanding in the mound as he moved to 7-0 on the year with a complete game shutout and didn’t let a Viking get to second base the entire game. He struck out 8 and gave up 3 hits.
Lawrence Co. playing in the always tough Fayette Co. Invitational this Friday and Saturday at Paul Dunbar in Lexington, Ky.
Friday at 8:00 vs Franklin-Simpson ( 19-7 )
Saturday 4:00 vs Bryan Station ( 7-14 )
Saturday 6:30 vs Paul Dunbar ( 14-9 )
Lawrence Co. Head Coach Travis Feltner
COACH’S COMMENTS
“… I want to start with the 2008 team that we honored on Thursday. What a special group I can go on for hours talking about that team from Jeff Cyrus to Chandler Shepherd and all of the others. That was a great run to a runner up finish against a great PRP team.
“… Great win for us against Johnson Central they had beaten us a bunch lately and our kids really battled tonight to come out with the victory.”
“… Our kids have been great all year long. We don’t have to do much to get them going and that is a real testament to all of them.”
“… Not much else I can say about Bryce and CJ, they were great again and have been all year. Spring Valley and Rowan Co. are both very good hitting teams and those teams only had six hits combined in 14 innings of play.”
