March 26, 2015 ~ The Eagle-Record ~ Page 7

SS PP OO RR TT SSRaiders Pick Up Conference WinBy Coach Chris Mizzell

After getting rained out on Thursday the Raiders finally got back on the field Friday forthe their first home game of the season. The Raiders (3-1) took the field against PatrickHenry and came out with a 3-1 conference win. Brody Taylor (1-0) took the hill for theRaiders pitching five innings, allowing one run on two hits while striking out five and giv-ing up two walks. Stokes Brownlee picked up the save, pitching the final two innings, strik-ing out three and giving up one walk.

Offensively, the Raiders were led by Reese Smoak who was 2-3 and Brice Shuler whowas 1-2, with one RBI. Rounding out the attack for the Raiders were Clayton Jackson,Stokes Brownlee, Cole Carter, Luke Way and Chase Kennedy with one hit each.

The Raiders have a full schedule this week. Monday the Raiders will face Colleton Prepat home, starting with the JV at 4 p.m. On Tuesday, the Raiders will be home again againstClarendon Hall starting at 6 p.m. with Varsity game only. On Friday, the Raiders will travelto Holly Hill with JV games starting at 4 p.m. "Come out and support your Raiders," saysCoach Mizzell.

Junior Brody Taylor, #13, pitched five innings, allowing one run on two hits whilestriking out Five and giving up two walks, for the Raiders in their 3-1 conference winover Patrick Henry. Photos by donnyknightphotography.smugmug.com

Weather Hampers PlayWolverines Pick Up Win OverRidgeland; Fall to Edisto, Barnwell

Rain, spotty defense, and the lack of timely hitting put a damper on Woodland High'sbaseball activities last week; while the Wolverines were able to squeeze in all three sched-uled games, they were only able to manage a single win. Coach Keith Lowman wasn't ableto find much joy in a 6-0 shutout win over Ridgeland last Monday on the road. "We weresorry!" the coach exclaimed. The team played poorly, and it showed. Ridgeland just wasn'tvery good and we couldn't take advantage. "Well, a win is a win," he added. "I just wish thatwe could have picked up some momentum to carry us through the rest of the week."

Travis Varnes picked up the win, giving up only five hits.Woodland could not continue their winning ways, however, as they hosted Edisto. The

Wolverines forged an early inning three run lead before providing Edisto a pair of two outerrors that pulled Edisto ahead to stay 9-8. The Wolverines fought back, managing to movetwo runners into scoring position with the tying and winning runs. "We just couldn't getthem across," Loman said. "We didn't quit. Those two errors were critical."

Justin Mims pitched 4 and 2/3 good innings; the Wolverines managed eight runs andnine hits, but it was not enough. Jason Mims had a pair of hits; Ryan Troutman belted a dou-ble and a triple. Varnes, Ethan Westbury, and Troutman each drove in a pair of runs.

Barnwell to came away with an 8-5 win on Friday, although the Wolverines moved to a3-1 lead in the fifth inning then, going into extra innings, Barnwell took a 5-3 lead in thetenth. Woodland had an opportunity to take the win in the bottom of the tenth with runnerson second and third, but failed to move them in.

Coach Lowman said that he was still confident that his boys were going to put thingstogether, "We had errors, and couldn't pick up the timely hits. I feel like we should havecome away winners in all but one game; and we should get on a win streak, our goal is stillto make the playoffs and go on from there."

Westbury had two hits and two RBI's while Justin Mims had one of each in the Barnwellloss.

The Wolverines play host to Bamberg-Ehrhardt on March 25, followed by WadeHampton on the road on March 27. The WH game completes the Wolverine regular sched-ule going into play in the Annual Hanahan Invitational Tourney (HITS). Woodland isexpecting to play in a minimum of three games in the tourney at the Moncks Corner site.Woodland opens their HITS tourney play when they take on powerful Stratford on Monday,March 30.

Senior Drake Knight tries to score for Woodland, but is called out in the Wolverines’ extra-inning loss to Edisto, 8-9. Woodland will host Bamberg-EhrhardtWednesday and will travel to Wade Hamption Friday.

Record is 3 - 1JV Raider Baseball Opens SeasonBy Coach Carlton Peele

The Dorchester Academy JV Raider Baseball team opened its season recently, and hascompiled an early 3-1 record. The team travelled to Patrick Henry for the season opener onWednesday, March 4. DA took an early lead and held the 2-0 lead until the third inning,when an error allowed Patrick Henry to tie the game. Dorchester regained the lead in thefifth inning, only to commit another crucial error, allowing PHA to again tie the game. ThenPatrick Henry scored in the last inning to take a 4-3 win over the Raiders. Leading DA atthe plate were Andrew Faulling (two for two), Josh Chinners, Colby Weeks, and DavidBeane each with one hit. Chinners started the pitching duties for Dorchester, pitching threeexcellent innings. Lance Brownlee and Chase Way pitched in relief.

The young Raiders next travelled to Jeff Davis Academy on Friday, March 6, andredeemed themselves with a 15-0 shutout over JDA. Josh Chinners pitched the completegame (called in three innings due to run rule), striking out seven batters and walking onlyone batter, while allowing only one hit for the afternoon. Chinners also lead DA hitting withtwo hits, followed by Lance Brownlee, Andrew Faulling, Jack Berry, and Dawson Lucaswith one hit each. As a Team the JV Raiders were disciplined at the plate, drawing 10 walksthroughout the game.

After a week of quality practices due to improving weather conditions Dorchester trav-elled to Clarendon Hall on Friday, March 13. Clarendon Hall proved to be the best oppo-nent faced thus far, but DA played impressively, hammering out 14 hits over five innings todefeat Clarendon by a score of 17-4. DA scored seven runs in the first inning. Clarendonanswered with four runs in their half inning. But strong pitching from Marion Infinger inrelief of starter Lance Brownlee, and excellent defense would not allow Clarendon to scorethe remainder of the game. Infinger pitched five innings, striking out five batters whileallowing no hits and no runs. Leading the DA hitting was Josh Chinners who batted four forfour on the afternoon, with a pair of doubles. Rhett Mizzell was also perfect, going three forthree, with a double of his own. Chase Way and Andrew Taylor had two hits each, followedby one hit each from the bats of Jack Berry, Colby Weeks, and Lance Brownlee.

--------------------The Raiders played their first home game on Friday, March 20, in a rematch with Patrick

Henry. This time the JV Raiders were ready as evidenced by their defeating Patrick Henry10-0 in five innings. The pitching duo of Chase Way and Marion Infinger combined for ano-hit, shutout performance, with Way recording his first win of the young season. Leadinghitters for DA were Lance Brownlee (four for four) and Continued On Page 8