BOILING SPRINGS, SC - As two of the top teams in the state competed on the diamond, with both throwing their top pitchers, it comes as no surprise that runs were hard to come by on Tuesday night as Boiling Springs came away with the 1-0 home victory over Eastside to open regular season play for the Bulldogs. According to some publications, Boiling Springs is the tenth best team at the 5A level and according to most polls Eastside sits inside the top two of teams at the 4A level and the hype for the matchup didn't leave fans disappointed. The game turned out to be a pitching duel between Boiling Springs pitchers Tristan Smith and Jackson Cole versus Eastside's Brody Fowler. Bulldogs' senior pitcher Tristan Smith pitched five innings of shutout baseball while striking out twelve Eastside batters including the last three batters he faced in the bottom of the fifth inning while only allowing one hit. Brody Fowler pitched an impressive outing for Eastside as he went the whole game for the Eagles throwing 102 pitches striking out fourteen Bulldogs batters and only allowing one hit. The Bulldogs' Jackson Cole came on in relief for Smith in the top of the sixth inning and kept up the same work that Smith was doing, as he got a fly ball to second base to start the inning and followed it up with two back-to-back strikeouts to end the inning. In the top of the seventh inning, it looked like Eastside was going to be able to get on the board and end the Bulldogs shutout bid, as they loaded the bases with no outs. With the bases loaded though, Cole stepped up big again for the Bulldogs as he was able to strikeout the next three Eastside batters to end the Eagles rally and keep the game scoreless. Cole finished his two innings of work allowing no hits with five strikeouts and together with Smith they combined to strikeout 17 of the 27 Eastside batters they faced on Tuesday night. With one out in the bottom of the seventh inning, Bulldogs senior third baseman Davis Starnes worked a walk to put a runner on base for Boiling Springs before he stole second base on the first pitch to the next batter. After Cole worked a walk to put runners at first and second for the Bulldogs, the biggest play of the game happened on the next at-bat. The next Bulldogs batter struck out swinging but as he was swinging Starnes was racing to steal third base and was safe but the throw to third base sailed into leftfield allowing Starnes to come around and score giving the Bulldogs the victory. Both teams are scheduled to face each other again on Wednesday night at Eastside, with weather permitting, as they are making up a game rescheduled from last week. Bulldogs Softball Falls In Opening Night Of Region PlayJust across the pathway from the pitching duel, the Boiling Springs softball team was opening up region play but couldn't get things to fall their way as they fell 11-6 to Nation Ford on Tuesday night.
Nation Ford had two big innings as they scored six runs in the second inning that came off some key Bulldogs errors and three more in the top of the seventh inning to help secure their victory. Boiling Springs got two monster homeruns from Bri Stanley and Saydie Parris in the game that both found the roadway behind the outfield wall. The Bulldogs will look to rebound in another region matchup on Friday night when they host Clover at 6:00 PM. Comments are closed.
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