FREDERICK, Md. – Even with the squad showing some extra base power on a day with extreme winds, the home opener resulted in being swept by the visiting Cairn Highlanders 16-3 and 14-10 on Saturday afternoon.
Inside the Box Score
Matthew Stout (Coatesville, Pa./Coatesville) hit a towering homer to left for most of the damage in game one.
Keegan Brennan (Lake Wynonah, Pa./Nativity BVM) notched three hits and four RBIs on the day.
Ty Broughton (Charles Town, W.Va./Washington) continues to hit the ball hard hitting a double and a triple in his 3-for-5 outing in game two.
On the Mound
Finn Scott-Daniels (Annandale, Va./Annandale) pitched four innings allowing four earned on six hits.
Skylar Albright (Hendersonville, N.C./Hendersonville) pitched 2 1/3 innings allowing nine runs on five hits.
In the Bullpen
Mason Potter (Ashburn, Va./Stone Bridge) in his three innings of work in game two were scoreless along with three strikeouts.
Aaron Heller (Philadelphia, Pa./Jack Barrack Hebrew Acad.) went the final inning of game two without a hit and an unearned run.
Cairn 16, Hood 3
After the early deficit, a leadoff single from Brennan would plate Stout and his big swing would cut the lead in half at 4-2.
In the 6
th,
Joe Monteleone (Haddon Heights, N.J./Haddon Heights) would pinch hit and find his way on first before trading places with another Blazer via a fielder's choice. Some pop off the bat of
Harrison Ludington (Woodbridge, Va/Forest Park High School) would sky a ball to centerfield over the head of the outfielder to score the Blazers final run of the game.
Cairn 14, Hood 10
The line kept moving for the Highlanders in the first three innings and the Blazers faced a 14-0 deficit with Cairn taking their foot off the gas after five innings.
What the other dugout didn't expect was a resurgence of the Blazers even as the real feel temperature dropped below 40 degrees.
The Blazers would score five runs in each of the last two innings and try to play spoiler in the final innings. With an early out in the seventh inning, the Blazers were too late as a flyout to the outfield stranded a runner at third but nonetheless a valiant comeback held short.
Analysis
The Blazers had eight extra base hits on the day.
Even with three error, the mishaps in the field are becoming limited.
Game two contained the most hits in a game for Hood all season thus far.
Up Next
The squad will stay home to take on familiar foe Wilson at FCC on Friday, March 7 with first pitch set for 3 p.m..
