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Times Photo/Adam Goings CONWAY: Bobcat Jacob Conway dives for third base. Battlefield took out the Raiders 13-3 on April 22 in Haymarket.
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BHS inches back toward .500
Local
By Dan Roem
Source: Gainesville Times
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28 2010
Considering the 20-run shellacking unleashed by Stonewall Jackson in April 2009 to Battlefield on the Bobcats' home turf, last Thursday night would have be considered a reprisal for the purple and silver. The Bobcats (6-7 overall) stormed the Raiders for six runs in the bottom of the fourth inning and tacked on another six in the sixth on their way to a 13-3 slaughter rule win in Haymarket. Chris Wendle produced the biggest bat for Battlefield with a 3-for-4 day at the play that included a double, two singles and four RBIs. Meanwhile, pitcher John Williams picked up his first win of the season, giving up eight hits and three earned runs in 5.1 IP before John-Austin Shepard closed the game out in a blaze of glory, recording two strike outs on nine pitches. Singles in the fourth by Zach Harris and Nate Abel set up a runners-on-the-corners situation for Turner Meeks, whose single toward the third base bag brought in the first run of the inning. After Conway loaded the bases by taking one for the team, John Williams looked a full-count offering from Trevor Almond and walked in Abel. Meeks trotted home on another hit by pitch to Bobby Seagers, setting up Wendle to break the game wide open. He delivered by clocking a three-run double to center, giving Battlefield pitcher Williams a 7-2 advantage to work with starting in the fifth inning. Stonewall senior Mike Costello earned back one of those runs by driving in his classmate Sean Blackman with a rightfield double, putting runners in scoring position and only one out on the board. One fly out and one walk later, Williams stuck the Raiders in a make-or-break situation. The bases juiced, Williams didn't even bother working the count, delivering three straight strikes to Taylor Ramseyer to pull himself and the Bobcats out of a jam and keep a four-run lead on what was Stonewall's last great opportunity to score. Chris Moylan delivered the game-breaker for the Bobcats in the bottom of the sixth after coming back from an 0-1 count to rope a 2-2 double to left field that scored courtesy runner J.T. Brosnahan and Wendle. The lefty Abel hacked his way through three foul balls and a foul count before signaling right back to pitcher. That gave Meeks the chance to play hero and did he ever deliver, driving in two runs by belting a triple to the center field wall. One run away from an automatic win, Dillon Porterfield found the same field Meeks did against a new pitcher with a rip to center, driving in his teammate from third to close the game. Battlefield enters this week with six games left in the regular season, five against district opponents including Stonewall again on May 11, only this time in Manassas.
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