ITS SENIOR CLASS — JAX DECKER,
JACOB LOBB, OWEN PERKINS
AND BRAEDEN JONES ON TUESDAY.
SUSPENDED GAME RESUMES ON WEDNESDAY AT WCHS; PURPLES PLAY HOST TO GREENWOOD IN GAME ONE DELAYED BY THREATS OF SEVERE WEATHER
Turns out, the second week of KHSAA 14th District baseball is in a serious holding pattern.
The critical matchup between two state-ranked teams, Bowling Green High School and crosstown rival Greenwood, has been pushed back 48 hours, to Wednesday evening, because of severe weather concerns throughout the western half of Kentucky the last two days. Bowling Green (20-3 overall, 2-0 in the 14th District) will play host to the Gators (15-8 overall, 1-1 in the 14th District) in Game One of the series at Harold J. Stihl Field.
First pitch is scheduled for 6 p.m.
Meanwhile, on the south side of town, defending KHSAA 4th Region champion South Warren (13-8 overall, 1-1 in the 14th District) will resume the first game of its district series against a young Warren Central squad. The Dragons (1-14 overall, 0-2 in the 14th District) traveled to South Warren on Tuesday, in a game delayed one day by the weather, before similar concerns arose after South and Warren Central completed 3.5 innings of play.
Dark clouds started moving in at game time, which had been pushed up a half hour because of weather concerns, and South Warren held a brief ceremony for its four senior players — Jax Decker, Jacob Lobb, Owen Perkins and Braeden Jones — before taking the field against the Dragons.
South Warren struck for three runs in the bottom of the third inning, off WCHS starting pitcher KeMichael Cofer, before the Spartans retired the side in the top of the fourth. At that point, the loudspeaker outside the school advised that lightning had been spotted within a 10-mile radius, bringing the proceedings to a quick halt with the Spartans leading 4-0.
OWEN PERKINS, JAX DECKER, BRAEDEN JONES
AND JACOB LOBB, WAS HONORED ON TUESDAY.
AWAITS THE THIRD-INNING PITCH
FROM THE DRAGONS’ KeMICHAEL COFER.
A THIRD-INNING DOUBLE
DOWN THE LEFT-FIELD LINE.
Three of the Spartans’ seniors — Lobb, South’s starting pitcher, along with Perkins and Jones — collected run-scoring hits, and South’s aggressive base running helped force a Warren Central error that sent Spartans shortstop Crider Yarbrough to third base.
Yarbrough scored on Greyson Quillen’s RBI ground ball before the Dragons took their cuts in the top of the fourth and the game’s suspension. Warren Central’s Kevonta Earnest had a line-drive single to left field to open the inning, but he was stranded at second base.
South Warren multi-sport star Camden Page, the Spartans’ starting shortstop and the school’s junior quarterback, was not in the lineup for the game on Tuesday. Yarbrough, in his stead, retired Warren Central’s Justin Alvarez-Bell on a ball hit deep into the 6-hole, on the left side, in that inning.
The two-game series is scheduled to resume on Wednesday evening at Warren Central, with the remainder of the first game and the second game on the docket.
RESUMES WEDNESDAY EVENING AT WCHS.
ARE 15-8 ON THE SEASON.
COLT ISENBERG IS OFTEN USED
OUT OF THE PURPLES BULLPEN.
Meanwhile, at Bowling Green High School, BGHS coach Nathan Isenberg plans to start senior left-hander Jack Cowan (4-0, 2.21 ERA) in the opening game Wednesday against Greenwood.
Greenwood coach Jason Jaggers has decided to counter with senior right-hander Whitt Glosick, who also is an infielder for the Gators. Glosick is unbeaten in three decisions with a 2.88 ERA. He also has recorded a team-high 42 strikeouts, with just 10 walks, in 41 1/3 innings pitched.
Bowling Green is ranked eighth, statewide, in the Kentucky Sports Radio/ON3 poll, while Greenwood is checking in at No. 18.
KHSAA 4th REGION CHAMPION.
ON TUESDAY WAS CANCELLED AND
IS UNLIKELY TO BE RESCHEDULED.
WHEN I RETURNED FROM
THE SOUTH WARREN PRESS BOX …
