Rockingham’s Jeremy Smith puts on a bunt during the first inning against Garner Tuesday night in the 13-14-year-old Piedmont Pony Sectional at Civitan Park. Smith was safe at first helping his team to an 11-0 victory.
The Rockingham team breezed past the Garner All-Star squad 11-0 in five innings Tuesday evening at Civitan Park in the Piedmont Pony Sectional.
Austin Brower led the way in the victory with a three-run home run in the first inning and a sacrifice fly in the fourth. Brower also tossed a scoreless inning and struck out two.
Garner was limited to just one baserunner in the contest, a Chad Corbin single with one out in the second inning. Jacob Sears earned the victory, hurling the first three innings and striking out two. Lewis Stewart pitched one hitless-inning and struck out one.
Rockingham opened the contest by having its first six batters each base safely. Jeremy Smith reached on a bunt single, stole second and scored on Michael Steele’s single. Cody Wilson followed with a run-scoring single and Todd Inman walked. Brower smashed a Corey Pearson pitch deep into left field for his three-run home run. Kole Stanley tripled and scored on Andre Patterson’s suicide squeeze bunt to give Rockingham a 6-0 lead.
After being unable to dent the plate for the next two innings, Rockingham exploded for five runs in the bottom of the fourth to ice the contest. Rockingham was aided by three Garner errors in the inning.
Stewart walked to open the frame. After a pop out, Smith smashed a double off the top of the left field fence to put runners on second and third. Steele drew a base on balls to load the bases. Wilson grounded to third, but the throw home sailed over the catcher’s head allowing Stewart and Smith to score. Inman followed by striking out, but reached safely on a wild pitch as Steele raced home. Brower’s sacrifice fly scored Wilson and Inman closed out the scoring on a throwing error after being caught in a rundown.
Rockingham faces Archdale at 5 p.m. today in the winner’s bracket. Archdale rallied to defeat Asheboro 10-9. R.J. Allison spearheaded the comeback with a two-run home run in the bottom of the sixth inning.
Asheboro’s Brett Webster hit a grand slam and Jake Strickland smashed a solo home run in the top of the first inning to give their team a 5-0 lead, before Archdale begin to chip away at the lead.
In the loser’s bracket, Asheboro will face Garner at 7 p.m.
n In the 9-10-year-old Piedmont Pony Sectional in Archdale, Austin Patrick struck out 11 and allowed just three hits to lead Rockingham to a 10-3 victory over Jamestown.
Dylan Bostick went 4-for-4, Luke Hoggard was 3-for-4 with a triple and Jonathan Lee was 2-for-4 in the win.
The Rockingham team will face the winner of the Southwest Randolph and Garner game Thursday at 5:30 p.m. Garner knocked off Archdale 8-1.
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