Baseball – The OC Patriots played the Jefferson Dragons at home Wednesday afternoon. OC had twice as many hits as Jefferson but Jefferson had twice as many runs as OC and took the victory 2-1.
 |
| John Mathews made this catch to prevent a Jefferson hit. |
Clay Ogle was on the mound for Oglethorpe and pitched a perfect game for four and two thirds innings. The last out was hard to come by, however, when Ogle walked one, the Dragons got their first hit, then another walk. But an infield pop-up ended the Dragons inning.
 |
| Almost |
Ogle’s fifth inning would see a Jefferson hit and an OC error that would result in Jefferson’s two runs. Arguably if OC had not made the error Jefferson might not have scored the second run. But hey, that’s baseball.
OC’s fifth inning would remain scoreless, and the top of the sixth saw Ogle put down the side with no Dragon runs. OC’s half of the sixth didn’t produce any runs so it was on to the seventh.
 |
| Mathews on his way to second after hitting the ball to the fence. |
J.D. Sharp came in to relieve Ogle. Ogle left after six full innings with no earned runs, two hits, six strikeouts and four base on balls. Sharp got in trouble quickly with Jefferson loading the bases. Jacob Hester came in to relieve Sharp and fought his way out of a tough inning with two strikeouts and no Jefferson runs.
The bottom of the seventh got pretty exciting as OC put up their only run of the game. John Mathews, who made an outstanding catch at the left field fence in the second inning, doubled and eventually scored for OC. With two out OC had runners on first and third but Taylor Liedberg facing a 3-2 pitch couldn’t get enough on the ball to get the runner home and was thrown out at first, ending the game a 2-1 win for Jefferson.
OC travels to Hartwell to take on Hart Co Friday, April 6th.
You can see all the pictures here: http://www.hdgp.photoreflect.com/store/thumbpage.aspx?e=8471386
No comments:
Post a Comment