LBWCC blanks Wallace-Selma
Published 12:00 am Friday, March 9, 2018
The LBWCC Saints’ baseball team had the bats going and got a strong performance on the mound to knock off Wallace-Selma 6-0 on Thursday afternoon in Selma.
Ko Powell showed patience at the plate as he opened the game with a four-pitch walk.
Jesse Hall then picked up a single and moved Powell over to second base.
Chauncey Callier was hit by a pitch to load the bases with one out and then a walk to Trevor Shelton put the Saints up 1-0.
Bryson Gandy followed with a scorching double to right field that scored Hall and Callier.
On the mound for the Saints, Garrett Hollinghead sat Wallace-Selma down in the order to start the game.
Hollinghead breezed through the second inning in the same fashion as the first.
The Saints weren’t able to get anyone to reach in the top of the third.
Hollinghead continued his strong start having sat down the first nine batters of the game.
In the bottom of the fourth inning, Hollinghead again sat the Wallace-Selma batters down in order.
Hollinghead pushed his streak up to 14-straight batters sat down before Wallace-Selma got their first hit in with two outs in the bottom of the fifth inning.
Hollinghead picked up the win for the Saints on the mound with a complete-game shutout. Hollinghead struck out four batters and allowed just two hits.
Gandy paced the Saints at the plate going 3-for-4 with two RBIs and one run scored.
Jackson Henderson finished the game 3-for-4 with one RBI.
Shelton added one RBI for the Saints.