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The Paper photo by Lori Poteet
Southmont senior Jared Earle retired 10 straight batters in relief in
the Mounties’ 6-5 nine-inning win over Class A co-No. 5 Rockville. |
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| Baseball
Monday
At Southmont
Southmont 6, Rockville 5 (9 innings)
Rockville 111 000 200 – 5 7 5
Southmont 201 110 001 – 6 5 0
WP: Jared Earle S (1-0) LP: Matt King R (0-1)
Rockville runs scored: Bob Clevenger 2, Caleb McCullen 2, Tyler Bradburn
Southmont runs scored: Cody Jacquez 2, Lucas Long, Logan Petry, Scott Paris, Tanner Hill
Rockville RBI: Bradburn 3, Jared Clevenger
Southmont RBI: Jacquez 4, Earle
Rockville hits: Bradburn 2, McCullen 2, B. Clevenger, Steve Ball, King
Southmont hits: Jacquez 3, Tyler Bridge, Earle
2B: Earle S
HR: Jacquez S 2, Bradburn R
Stolen bases: Rockville 0, Southmont 2 (Petry, T. Hill)
LOB: Rockville 4, Southmont 9
Records: Southmont 1-0, Rockville 0-1
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Reprinted courtesy of:
The Paper of Montgomery County
www.thepaper24-7.com
By Cale Stephens
For The Paper
NEW MARKET – Cody Jacquez started his senior baseball season with a bang.
Jacquez accounted for four of Southmont’s runs in a nine-inning 6-5 win against Class A co-No. 5 Rockville.
With
two outs in the bottom of the ninth and facing a 0-2 count, Jacquez
smacked a line drive into left-center field to score junior Lucas Long
from second base.
The RBI capped a two-homerun, four-RBI game for Jacquez.
“It’s
a nice start to the year,” Jacquez said. “I wasn’t really expecting
this. I’ve done alright during practice. I just wouldn’t expect
anything like this. I just focused real hard on the pitcher. I could
see what pitch he was throwing.”
Southmont (1-0) went ahead 2-1 in the bottom of the first after Jaquez’s first homerun, a two-run towering blast.
Rockville (0-1) responded with one run in the second and took the lead back with another run in the third.
In
the bottom of the third, Southmont junior Tanner Hill scored after
stealing third base and making it home, as the throw from the catcher
drifted into left field.
Senior pitcher Jared Earle went to
the mound in relief in the bottom of the fourth and shut down the Rox.
He retired 10 straight batters, striking out eight of them.
Jacquez’s solo homerun in the fifth gave the Mounties a 5-3 lead. That lead seemed safe with Earle dominating on the mound.
However, with two out and one on in the top of the seventh, Earle delivered a 2-2 fastball to Rox batter Tyler Bradburn.
Bradburn belted it out of the park to send it into extra innings.
After giving up a single to the next batter, Earle settled down and retired the next seven hitters.
Long reached on an error in the ninth and advanced to second to set up the late-inning heroics.
“I’m
just proud of our kids,” Mounties’ coach Adam Acton said. “Sometimes
you just don’t know what to expect right out of the blocks like this.
They really played well. But, what can you say about Cody? He obviously
is seeing the ball real well. Sometimes the team can feed off of a
performance like that.”
Southmont next plays today in a 6 p.m. home game against Cloverdale.
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