SUMMERSVILLE- After getting rained out of a second game with no. 1 Jefferson this past weekend, the Greenbrier East Spartans got off to a fast start in Summersville on Monday evening and put a hurting on the Nicholas County Grizzlies, 14-2, as a retaliation to the weather.
It is the second win this season for Greenbrier East over Nicholas County as they also beat them 11-1 back on March 24.
The Spartans (15-9) raced out to a quick 5-0 lead after their first at-bat and the runs came in a rather unconventional way.
Zion Detko led off the game and got hit by a pitch. Then, Graham Brewster, Nelson Lynch, and Brady May walked consecutively, which scored Detko. With the bases still loaded, Ashton Cochran ripped a triple to center field that cleared the bases, and the Spartans held a 4-0 lead at that point. They added one more on Eli Green’s groundout and they extended that advantage to 5-0 after one on just one base hit.
Both teams went scoreless over the course of the next three innings until the fourth when the Spartans struck again.
The inning was capitalized on by Green’s RBI double that brought Braden Teaney home, and East had a commanding 8-0 lead.
Green was also on the mound and other than two harmless Grizzly runs in the fifth, never let Nicholas County think they had a fighter’s chance to win the game.
With the game out of hand in the seventh, it didn’t stop Detko’s bat from staying hot. He hit a line drive home run to start the seventh. A 2-run double from Clay Patton capped the Greenbrier East scoring as they cruised to the easy one.
Detko, who has been red hot the last few weeks, went 2-4 with the homer, three runs scored, and an RBI. Green was good everywhere and went 3-3 with three runs scored as well. Cochran finished 2-4 with two runs and led the team with four RBIs and May had two RBIs also.
Green threw the complete game on the hill, allowed just one hit, zero earned runs, and struck out six Grizzlies.
Nicholas’ pitching staff struggled, to put it lightly. Of the 14 allowed runs, 13 of them were earned.
The Spartans stay on the road against Independence on Tuesday, April 29.
