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[Baseball] Red Team Takes Home Game 1 of Fall Classic

Tuesday, October 29th – 6:00PMGame 1 Results- Red team won 2-1SummaryBoth junior right handed pitchers Sam King and Dakota Crowell had outstanding outings on the mound last night in Game 1 of the Red and Black World Series. Sam King got the win for the Red going six complete innings allowing one earned run. Senior Brendan Grainger led off the game with a double and advanced on a error by freshman right fielder Dalton Davis to advance to third. Senior Trevor McKinley then hit a fielder's choice groundball to first base to score the Black team's lone run for the night. Senior Trevor McKinley also had two doubles throughout the night and Senior Jake Chaney had a double as well for the Black team.  Offensively for the Red team Lance Pope led the way with a double and a go ahead solo homerun in the seventh inning. Newcomer Drew Bailey had a RBI double to score Lance Pope for the Red teams first score of the night. In relief, LHP Brock Young gave up a solo homerun to take the loss for the Black team and senior LHP Dylan Barbee pitched three scoreless innings to close out the game for the Red team.Coach Hill's thoughts- "Both teams had multiple opportunities to score with runners in scoring position and did not execute. We have to do a better job and have better approaches at the plate in those situations. I thought all pitchers pitched well only allowing three runs as a whole. Both teams were energetic and the atmosphere was great. We had several fans and it was a sense of appreciation to me over the past year as when we did our fall classic last season where there was not many fans. Therefore, I would like to say thank you to the parents and fans of the community for coming out and supporting us last night."