{"id":7218,"date":"2023-04-19T13:30:07","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T13:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jimmashek.com\/?p=7218"},"modified":"2023-04-19T13:45:45","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T13:45:45","slug":"sisson-delivers-south-warren-senior-makes-it-happen-in-9-6-victory-over-bowling-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimmashek.com\/?p=7218","title":{"rendered":"SISSON DELIVERS\/South Warren senior makes it happen in 9-6 victory over Bowling Green"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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SOUTH WARREN TURNED THE TABLES
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SPARTANS’ FIVE-RUN FOURTH INNING DOOMS PURPLES<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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South Warren High School’s baseball team had one night and a good chunk of Tuesday to think about its KHSAA 14th District opening game against its crosstown rival Bowling Green High School.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Spartans took the field at BGHS on Tuesday evening intent on settling a score.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Purples’ Dillon Maners hurled a four-hitter on Monday, stopping South Warren 5-0 to gain the upper hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

South Warren senior Dalton Sisson was poised to respond on Tuesday, and he certainly did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sisson worked six effective innings on the mound, while going three-for-three with three RBI at the plate, in leading the Spartans to a 9-6 victory over Bowling Green.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“It was a gutty performance,” South Warren coach Chris Gage said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SOUTH’s ELI CAPPS (LEFT) AND DALTON SISSON.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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South Warren improved to 12-6 overall while evening its 14th District record at 1-1, while Bowling Green fell to 7-9 and 1-1 respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I’d definitely like a better record, a better outcome (Tuesday night),” BGHS coach Nate Isenberg said. “We’re getting better every day. That’s all we can do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“They feast on fastballs, like a lot of people.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Spartans collected 10 hits against four Bowling Green pitchers, and they took control with five runs in the top of the fourth inning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SOUTH’s GRIFFIN RARDIN EARNED THE SAVE.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Sisson earned his second victory of the season in as many decisions, surviving the Purples’ two-run rally in the bottom of the fifth inning before yielding to South reliever Griffin Rardin after the sixth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sisson wasn’t overpowering by any means, but he kept the ball down and kept the Spartans in front after their five runs in the top of the fourth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We just couldn’t figure it out (Monday night),” Sisson said. “We came back today, with better intensity, we found a rhythm and kept rolling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Offensively, I was looking for the first-pitch fastball, and got it three times. I was seeing the ball real well.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sisson and the Spartans made it happen in the top of the fourth inning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jacob Gilbreath, the final batter in the South lineup, greeted BGHS starter J.P. Henderson with a single up the middle. Keegan Milby then put down a sacrifice bunt, but the Purples misplayed it and the error left two runners on base for the Spartans’ Griffin Rardin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rardin, a sophomore and the son of first-year WKU baseball coach Marc Rardin, lined a single to right-center field, scoring Gilbreath to trim Bowling Green’s lead to 4-3.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SOUTH WARREN COACH CHRIS GAGE.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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South’s Ethan Reynolds, who is batting over .500 this season, singled through the right side, and Spartans catcher Eli Capps followed suit, sending a bloop single into center field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That was Dalton Sisson’s cue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sisson rocked BGHS reliever Drew Isenberg with a two-run single to right-center field, putting the Spartans in front 5-4. A wild pitch brought one run across the plate and South’s Tucker Bishop added an RBI grounder, and suddenly the Purples trailed 8-4.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“(Monday night) wasn’t South Warren baseball,” Spartans catcher Eli Capps said. “(Tuesday) we came out to do a job.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Capps, Sisson and Gilbreath, three South seniors, made sure the job was done right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“You’ve got to depend on your seniors in this kind of game,” South coach Chris Gage said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bowling Green scrapped for two runs in the bottom of the fifth, with Dillon Maners scoring on Evan Schallert’s RBI grounder before a South Warren error brought Ethan Madison across the plate, making it 8-6.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Purples would get no closer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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BGHS COACH NATHAN ISENBERG.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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“We just couldn’t throw (an effective) breaking ball,” Nathan Isenberg said. “We had trouble generating offense early in the game, and that stresses your defense and pitching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I still believe we can make someone’s life miserable, when it’s all said and done.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Isenberg was smiling when he said that, cognizant that the Purples lost a legion of seniors, including outfielder Turner Nottmeier, catcher\/third baseman Spencer Newman and Patrick Forbes, Kentucky’s “Mr. Baseball,” from last year’s 25-10 squad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Griffin Rardin worked a 1-2-3 inning for the Spartans in the bottom of the seventh, earning his second save of the season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Purples will play host to Franklin-Simpson High School (5-15 overall) on Friday evening, while South Warren will be on the practice field until the Spartans square off with 15th District rival Greenwood (16-2 overall, 2-0 in league play) in a two-game series next week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Game One is on Monday at South Warren.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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NATIONAL ANTHEM TIME
BEFORE TUESDAY’s BIG GAME.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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DALTON SISSON WAS THE WINNING PITCHER.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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THE ‘LEFT-FIELD LOFT’ DREW PLENTY OF FANS.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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MAYBE IT WASN’T
A SPECTACULAR SUNSET,
BUT I LIKED IT JUST THE SAME.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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PIPER LIKED THE AMBIANCE OF THE LEFT-FIELD LOFT.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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