Gary Dudgeon
Greensburg Daily News
May 14, 2008 10:47 pm
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In their first meeting, East Central got more runs than any team this
season. Meyer wasn't going to let it happen again, even if he wasn't on his
typical game.
He blanked East Central through six innings and provided all
the offense he would need. In the earlier meeting, East Central scored three
runs against Meyer
in just three innings, but their pitching staff was no match-up against
the Pirates’ bats.
They weren’t Monday evening as well as the Pirates hammered out
a 6-1 win.
Although Meyer only gave up two hits, his normally good control
wasn’t there Monday as he walked eight Trojan hitters. He had his
power, however, as he mowed down 12 hitters on strikes retiring the
last two in the first three innings and the final hitter in the
other three innings. In his final inning of work he retired the side on
strikeouts although the Trojans left two men on base in the inning.
Nick Springmeyer pitched the seventh and allowed an
unearned run when Kaiser was safe on an error, advanced on a
base hit and scored on a sacrifice fly to center.
Meyer made up for his lack of control on the mound with his time at the
plate. In the third inning, he homered with Mitch Adams on board.
The Pirates added four more runs in the fifth inning and Meyer was in the
middle of that rally as well.
Chris Blankman singled, Meyer was safe on an error and Brok
Hersley sacrificed the runners along. Kieren McCamment was
intentionally walked and Trygve Henrikson and Jacob Powers got
RBIs when they too walked. Chris Denton’s single drove home the
final two runs for the Pirates.
Line score:
Pirates 0 0 2 0 4 0 0 - 6 9 2
Trojans 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 - 1 3 2
Batteries: Meyer, Springmeyer (7) and Adams; Bishop and
Cunningham
Home run: Meyer
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