Franklin County moved to 6-0 overall and 6-0 in conference play with an extra inning win at Batesville Thursday night.
Alex Bischoff was the player of the game pitching 8 shutout innings. Bischoff only allowed 1 hit, which was an infield hit and faced just 2 batters over the minimum while recording 11 strikeouts. Offensively, the Wildcats pounded out 9 hits but was unable to scratch a run across in the first 7 innings. In the 8th inning, after hits from Andrew Beaman and Tommy Ratz, Batesville chose to intentionally walk Brennan Meyers to load the bases with 2 outs. With the game on the line, Bischoff stepped up the plate and sent a pitch over the left center field fence for a Grand Slam. Bischoff finished off the 8th inning to secure the win for FC.
Franklin County will play host to Hagerstown on Friday, first pitch at 5pm.
On Saturday, FC will travel to Talawanda to play one game at 10am as part of a rescheduled game that was rained out.
Courtesy of Wildcats Coach Derek Stang.
Unfortunately, the Batesville Bulldogs JV Baseball team wasn’t able to get the same result as on Tuesday nights game against the Franklin County Wildcats as they got hit with their third loss of the season dropping their record to 2-3.
Casey Werner toed the rubber and went 3.2 innings and allowed only one earned run. Unfortunately two errors on the same play that would have been the third out allowed a Wildcat runner to score to extend their lead to 3-0. Riley Zink came in an pitched a solid 3.1 innings surrendering two earned runs. Although Bulldogs hitters had chances throughout the game they started cashing in towards the latter part of the game getting a run back in the fifth when Seth Gausman singled, stole a base and later scored on a single by Clay Grunkemeyer. Then in the sixth Riley Zink led the inning off with a line drive hit to left backed up by a double by Drew Kiefer. Devin Scripture would drive in a run on a sacrifice fly but the threat ended there. In the seventh the Bulldogs got within one run when Nate Eckstein led the inning of with a single and back to back doubles by Lleyton Ratcliffe and Clay Grunkemeyer plated runs after a strike out Drew Kiefer lined out to end the game on a hard hit ball that just couldn’t find a hole.
It was a tough loss to take but the Bulldogs JV looks to rebound when they play Greensburg at home at 5:30 p.m. next Monday April 23.
Courtesy of Bulldogs Coach Jason Meyer.