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Tallulah Falls’ Zaiden Cox busts it down the line during a recent home game. AUSTIN POFFENBERGER/Special
Tallulah Falls’ baseball team completed a three-game series sweep of Barrow Arts & Sciences Academy with a Friday double header sweep on the road. TFS took game one 11-1
In the opener, Tallulah Falls scored 4 runs in both the sixth and seventh to put the game out of reach. The Indians got things started in the first on an RBI groundout by Danny Grant. BASA tied the game in the home half, but the Indians pulled ahead in the second on Ashton Roache’s RBI single. It remained a 2-1 game until the fifth frame, when TFS used a Grant run-scoring hit
to pull ahead 3-1.
In the sixth, Chase Pollock had an RBI single, and moments later Zaiden Cox tripled home a pair. Cox then stole home to advance the lead to 7-1. In the next inning, Pollock had a 2-run single to left and Cox doubled home another. Pollock came home on a wild pitch to cap the scoring.
TFS had 15 hits in the contest, led by Cox’s 3-for-4 game with two doubles and a triple to go with 3 RBI and 2 runs, as well as 2 stolen bases. Pollock (2 hits, 3 RBI), Caden Walker (2 hits, 2 runs), Carver (2 hits), Grant (2 hits, 2 RBI), and Frankey Moree (2 hits) all had multi-hit games. Cole Bonitatibus earned the win after going 6 innings, allowing one earned run on 4 hits and 2 walks, striking out 8. Andrew Skvarka pitched the final inning and struck out 2 in a perfect inning.
In the nightcap, the offense got rolling a bit quicker, needing just 4 innings to put up a 15-0 score and trigger the mercy rule. After a single run in the first on Cox’s RBI single, the Indians added 4 in the second. Highlighting the inning was a Walker bases-loaded walk and a Cox RBI groundout.
An 8-run third busted the game wide open. Rohajae Pinder doubled in a run, Moree blasted a 2-run homerun to center, Cox doubled in another, and Pinder (batting for the second time in the inning) doubled home another pair. That made it a 13-0 game. TFS used a Roache RBI hit to push the lead to 15-0 in the fourth.
Meanwhile, Pollock earned a complete game, 1-hit shutout, walking 2 and striking out 5 to take the win on the mound. Moree had 3 hits and 2 RBI, as well as 3 runs. Cox had 2 hits and 3 RBI, finishing the day with 6 RBI between both games.
Pinder had 3 hits, 3 RBI, and 2 runs scored. Carver also had 2 hits in the game two victory.
The Indians are now 9-9 overall and 6-3 in region play.
– Brian Carter