![Eagle pitcher Jake Griffin delivers to the plate during Ohio County's 2-1 loss to Apollo in the 2015 Third Region tournament opening round Tuesday night.]()
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![Eagle pitcher Jake Griffin delivers to the plate during Ohio County's 2-1 loss to Apollo in the 2015 Third Region tournament opening round Tuesday night.]()
Eagle pitcher Jake Griffin delivers to the plate during Ohio County's 2-1 loss to Apollo in the 2015 Third Region tournament opening round Tuesday night.[/caption]
The Apollo Eagles scratched out two runs in the bottom of the fourth inning and held on to down Ohio County 2-1 Tuesday night at Owensboro in first-round action in the Third Region Baseball Tournament.
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![Eagle senior Kiah Gledhill puts the ball in play during OC's loss to Apollo Tuesday night in the Third Region Tournament.]()
Eagle senior Kiah Gledhill puts the ball in play during OC's loss to Apollo Tuesday night in the Third Region Tournament.[/caption]
Tuesday’s game matched the same pitchers who started an April 18 game at OCHS’ Leach Field, with Ohio County’s Jake Griffin earning a 2-0 win over AHS’ Ryan Hundley. Both pitchers were on their games for most of the contest.
Ohio County got its run in the top of the second inning, on Will Davis’ leadoff walk and two-out singles by Brice Phelps and Michael Griffin. Hundley would shut the visiting Eagles out the rest of the way.
Jake Griffin was in command for the first three innings, but had control problems in the bottom of the fourth, walking the first three Apollo batters. A sacrifice fly plated the tying run with the second crossing when Ohio County could not complete what could have been an inning-ending double play.
Zach Johnson replaced Griffin on the mound in the bottom of the fifth, and managed to work out of a bases-loaded jam. Apollo also loaded the bases in the bottom of the sixth but the OCHS defense again held.
Blaine Gillim led off the top of the seventh with a single, and was sacrificed to second by Davis to set up the potential tying run. Hundley then recorded a strike out for the second out of the inning, walked Jake Griffin, and got another strike out — his seventh of the night — to end the contest.
Ohio Co. (21-11) 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 — 1 4 1
Apollo (30-8) 0 0 0 2 0 0 x — 2 4 0
WP-Hundley. LP-J. Griffin. 2B-Bright (A).
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![Ohio County senior relief pitcher Zach Johnson winds up during the Eagles' loss to Apollo in the opening round of the 2015 Third Region tournament.]()
Ohio County senior relief pitcher Zach Johnson winds up during the Eagles' loss to Apollo in the opening round of the 2015 Third Region tournament.[/caption]
In commenting on the game, Eagle head coach Bobby Wise said, “It was a hard-fought game, both teams laid everything they had on it, if you love baseball it was a great game to watch. Mistake-free, for the most part, everybody battled. It’s a shame you have to have a loser. It’s pretty much the same thing that happened last year, another hard-fought game, it just so happened that last year we were on top, this year they’re on top. Can’t fault the effort, we had a chance, we had the tying and winning runs on base but we just couldn’t get it done.”
Tuesday’s loss ended the high school careers of Jake Griffin, Zach Johnson, Kiah Gledhill, Nate Morris, and Lee Dorris.
In other first-round games Tuesday: 11th District runner-up Hancock County stunned 12th District champion Grayson County 3-2, 11th District winner Meade County came back to beat Ninth District runner-up Daviess County 9-8, and 10th District champs Muhlenberg County also rallied from an early deficit to beat 12th District runner-up Whitesville Trinity 4-2. The tournament semifinals are scheduled for Wednesday at Edmonson County High School in Brownsville with the regional championship set for Thursday.
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![The Ohio County infield has a talk on the mound.]()
The Ohio County infield has a talk on the mound.[/caption]
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Eagle senior Kiah Gledhill puts the ball in play during OC's loss to Apollo Tuesday night in the Third Region Tournament.[/caption]
Tuesday’s game matched the same pitchers who started an April 18 game at OCHS’ Leach Field, with Ohio County’s Jake Griffin earning a 2-0 win over AHS’ Ryan Hundley. Both pitchers were on their games for most of the contest.
Ohio County got its run in the top of the second inning, on Will Davis’ leadoff walk and two-out singles by Brice Phelps and Michael Griffin. Hundley would shut the visiting Eagles out the rest of the way.
Jake Griffin was in command for the first three innings, but had control problems in the bottom of the fourth, walking the first three Apollo batters. A sacrifice fly plated the tying run with the second crossing when Ohio County could not complete what could have been an inning-ending double play.
Zach Johnson replaced Griffin on the mound in the bottom of the fifth, and managed to work out of a bases-loaded jam. Apollo also loaded the bases in the bottom of the sixth but the OCHS defense again held.
Blaine Gillim led off the top of the seventh with a single, and was sacrificed to second by Davis to set up the potential tying run. Hundley then recorded a strike out for the second out of the inning, walked Jake Griffin, and got another strike out — his seventh of the night — to end the contest.
Ohio County senior relief pitcher Zach Johnson winds up during the Eagles' loss to Apollo in the opening round of the 2015 Third Region tournament.[/caption]
In commenting on the game, Eagle head coach Bobby Wise said, “It was a hard-fought game, both teams laid everything they had on it, if you love baseball it was a great game to watch. Mistake-free, for the most part, everybody battled. It’s a shame you have to have a loser. It’s pretty much the same thing that happened last year, another hard-fought game, it just so happened that last year we were on top, this year they’re on top. Can’t fault the effort, we had a chance, we had the tying and winning runs on base but we just couldn’t get it done.”
Tuesday’s loss ended the high school careers of Jake Griffin, Zach Johnson, Kiah Gledhill, Nate Morris, and Lee Dorris.
In other first-round games Tuesday: 11th District runner-up Hancock County stunned 12th District champion Grayson County 3-2, 11th District winner Meade County came back to beat Ninth District runner-up Daviess County 9-8, and 10th District champs Muhlenberg County also rallied from an early deficit to beat 12th District runner-up Whitesville Trinity 4-2. The tournament semifinals are scheduled for Wednesday at Edmonson County High School in Brownsville with the regional championship set for Thursday.
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The Ohio County infield has a talk on the mound.[/caption]
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