Blue Devils go winless in county tourney
Published 1:00 pm Wednesday, March 7, 2012
The Escambia County baseball tournament continued Saturday at W.S. Neal after Thursday’s games and Friday’s cancellation of games, with T.R. Miller placing second and W.S. Neal placing third. Flomaton claimed the championship with an overall record of 3-0 followed by T.R. Miller with a 2-1 record, W.S. Neal with a 1-2 record and Atmore with a 0-3 record.
The tournament started Saturday with Flomaton defeating Atmore 15-3 and continued with T.R. Miller taking down the Blue Devils 13-3.
T.R. Miller then followed with a 3-0 win over W.S. Neal and Flomaton ended things Saturday night with a 4-1 win over the Eagles of East Brewton.
TRM 13, ECHS 3
It may have taken longer than expected for the Tigers of Brewton to take down the Blue Devils of Atmore, but T.R. Miller defeated the Blue Devils 13-3 in six innings Saturday.
The Blue Devils struck first with a solo homerun in the top of the first, but the Tigers would get five in the bottom of the inning, two in the second, three in the fourth, one in the fifth and two in the sixth while holding Atmore to two in the fourth to get the win by 10.
Tyler Dehoff earned the win on the mound pitching four innings and allowing three hits, three runs, walked three, and struck out four.
Darby Black went the final two innings allowing no runs, one hit, walked one and struck out three.
At the plate for the Tigers, Collin Graves had a single and a double and Keion Smith had a single and one RBI.
Conner Denton had a single and one RBI and Black had a single.
Dominique Jackson added a triple and an RBI and Ryan Skinner added a single.
Caleb Dickey had a double and two RBIs and Trey Salter had a single and two RBIs.
Ryan Hunt added a single and one RBI for the Tigers and Ricky Curry had a single.
WSN 14, Atmore 0
The W.S. Neal Eagles pounded out 11 hits and scored 14 runs while holding Atmore to no hits and no runs in their first game of the tournament earning them a 14-0 win.
W.S. Neal, serving as the visitors in the game, batted around in the top of first inning and scored five runs on three hits to set the tone for the game.
W.S. Neal would later add three runs in the second inning, four in the third and one each in the fourth and fifth innings to get the 10-run mercy rule win.
The Eagles used a trio of pitchers in Tyler Joyner, Jeremy Myers and Cam Blackman to get the win. Joyner got the start and the win on the mound as he went two innings and struck out one. Myers went the next two innings and struck out five and hit one. Blackman went the final innings and walked one and struck out three.
At the plate for the Eagles, Damion Williams was 1-for-2 with one RBI and Hunter Mullins was 1-for-3 with a double and one RBI.
Reid Johnson was 2-for-4 and Logan Williamson was 3-for-4 with two doubles and two RBIs.
Brian Settle was 1-for-1 with a triple and two RBIs and Christian Purvis was 1-for-3 with one RBI.
Myers was 1-for-1 with one RBI and Blackman was 1-for-3 with a triple and one RBI.