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HAYSI JUNIOR
Lance Compton (#3) slides safely across home plate ahead of the
late throw to J.J. Kelly's catcher to score the 12th Tiger run
in Thursday evening's Region D baseball title game at Castlewood
High School. The Tigers took an early 8-2 lead and rolled on to
the school's first-ever Region D baseball crown
(Staff photo/Mike
Stiltner.)
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Haysi Thumps J.J. Kelly to Earn First
Region D Baseball Crown |
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by Lloyd Combs
Sports Reporter
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It
was Lucien Patton’s day in the spotlight and
Haysi’s day in the sun.
Home runs by Patton and Ryan Jones lifted Haysi to
its first Region D
baseball crown as the Tigers routed
J.J. Kelly, 12-4, in
the tournament finals Thursday
afternoon at
Castlewood.
Patton had a career-high five RBIs, three in the
first inning when the
senior DH drove a first-pitch
fastball over the
right field fence for his first
career homer.
“That was my
first,” Patton said. “I was guessing he
was going to start me
out with a fastball, and he
did.”
Patton’s blast keyed a five-run first for Haysi
(17-6). He added a two-run
single in third and
finished 3-for-4 with
a career-high five RBIs.
“Lucien
hit the ball pretty well today,” Haysi Coach
Dewayne Stanley said.
“We always knew he was capable
of this. He started
hitting pretty well toward the end
of the year.”
Jones drove in four runs and had three hits for the
Tigers, including a
three-run homer in the second that
staked Haysi to an 8-2
lead.
“I
saw the ball pretty well,” Jones said. “Everybody
hit well for us. It
feels great to add a regional
championship in
baseball to (one) in football.”
Justin Stanley had three hits for Haysi, which won
the 2005 football
crown. Honaker claimed the Region D
softball title on
Thursday, giving the Black Diamond
District, counting
Twin Valley’s boys basketball
title, four Region D
championships.
J.J. Kelly (19-6) won eight state titles under
former coach Mack
Shupe, and has reached the regional
finals three of the
past four seasons under Dave
Wyrick.
Kegan Bentley singled and scored twice, both times
on RBI hits by Cody
Bentley, the second time in the
fourth, when the
Indians got within 8-4. But Haysi
added insurance runs
in the fourth, fifth and sixth
Tigers.
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Tigers
Fall to
Glenvar
in Group
A
Playoffs,
17-3 |
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Lloyd Combs
Sports Reporter
Glenvar
made Haysi play from behind in the first
inning and made the
Tigers play from way behind the
rest of the way.
The Highlanders batted around in the first three
innings and went on to
rout Haysi, 17-3, in the Group
A quarterfinals
Tuesday night.
The Highlanders sent nine men to the plate in the
first, ten in the
second and 12 more in the third.
Haysi (17-7) trailed
4-1 after a solo home run by Ryan
Jones in the bottom of
the first, but the Tigers were
soon out of
contention.
Glenvar
(19-3) added four runs in the second and
seven in the third,
turning ten walks, nine singles
and seven errors into
a 15-1 lead.
“Experience showed early,” Haysi Coach Dewayne
Stanley said. “We
came out just a little tight and got
tighter.
“(Glenvar
has) been in this same game about two or
three years in a row
and they were just better. I
wouldn’t be
surprised to see them playing (in the
finals) Saturday.”
Evan Noell, Colten Herald and Corey Reynolds each
drove in three runs
for the Highlanders. Noell was
3-for-4, walked twice
and played well behind the
plate, despite
arriving just before pre-game warm-ups
at the HHS field at
John Flannagan Dam.
“It was a long bus ride,” said Noell, a Coastal
Carolina recruit.
“We were all tired and lot of us
were getting motion
sickness, but we battled through
it.”
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