IVHS drops double-header to Pirates
From our weekly issue dated April 21, 2010
A double-header at Phoenix High School on Saturday, April 17 resulted in a pair of losses for the Illinois Valley High School varsity baseball team.
I.V. lost the first game 13-3. Senior Ben Kendall got a hit. Senior Brandon Foraker and junior Andrew McLaughlin went 2-2.
“We didn“t play real good defense,“ said Cougar coach Bob Johnson. “If we don“t play defense, we get into trouble.“
In the second game, I.V. scored 2 runs at the top of the first inning. But the Pirates rallied in the bottom of the first, scoring 8.
“It was all downhill from there,“ Johnson said. “If we played defense, there“s a chance we would have stayed in the game until the end. But we didn“t, and we got thumped.“
The final score of the second game was 25-3.
Kendall and Foraker each got 1 hit, and McLaughlin got 2. Johnson credits the Pirates“ pitchers for their winning efforts.
“They both threw pretty hard. They both had pretty good control,“ Johnson said. “For the most part, they were throwing strikes and getting ahead of our hitters. That“s the key to success for pitching.“
The Cougars will host Hidden Valley on Tuesday, April 27.
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