2007 HHS Baseball

From the Hurricane Valley Journal
By: Michael Rinker
The Tigers baseball team lost two games to Dixie High last week, falling 11-2 at home March 25 and 7-5 on the road three days later.
In the first game, Justin Jarvis struck out nine batters in 5 1/3 innings, but he was done in by control problems and a shaky defense – the Tigers committed five errors.
In the third inning, he struck out the leadoff hitter, then gave up a single to left before getting another strikeout. But he wild-pitched the runner to third ahead of an RBI hit to right. The next inning, the Flyers scored a run on another wild pitch.
Hurricane answered with a run in the bottom of the fourth.
Dixie then scored three unearned runs in the top of the fifth to take a 5-1 lead. Jarvis struck out the leadoff hitter, but then gave up a hit. The next batter lofted a fly ball to short right that the outfielder over-ran. It dropped behind him for a two-base error. Instead of two outs and one on, the Flyers had two runners in scoring position. Then a ground ball to shortstop that would have ended the inning turned into a fielder’s choice that allowed a run to score. A wild pitch brought in another and a two-out hit drove in the third before Jarvis got his third strikeout of the inning.
The Tigers scored in the bottom of the inning to make the score 5-2, but that would be as close as they would get.
Dixie put up three more in the sixth – Jarvis was pulled after striking out the first batter, then walking the second – and another three in the seventh to make the final score 11-2.
On offense, Jarvis accounted for both Tiger runs. After leading off the fourth with a single, he was sacrificed to second, advanced to third on a ground-out to the right side of the infield, then scored on an error. In the fifth he drove in the only other run with a two-out hit to right. The Tigers had five hits for the game.
Traveling to Dixie on March 28, Hurricane kicked off the scoring with four in the third, but the Flyers responded with three in the bottom of the inning. They added two in the fourth and single runs in the fifth and sixth to take a 7-4 lead. The Tigers scored the game’s final run in the seventh.
Ryan Massey was the losing pitcher.
The Tigers’ overall record dropped to 4-4. With the two losses to Dixie, they are 0-2 in the region.

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