BECKLEY- No matter the sport, when Greenbrier East and Beckley match up, there is sure to be an interest around the area even with two teams desperately looking for a win.
That statement rang true on Tuesday night as the Greenbrier East baseball team traveled to Raleigh County and got a statement win, 14-4, over their biggest rivals from Raleigh County.
The Spartans, who snapped a six-game losing streak, used an 11-run third inning to pull away and win the contest in just five innings.
It didn’t take East long to get going either. Nelson Lynch led the game off by drawing a base on balls and then put himself in scoring position when he swiped second base. Sam Roshau lined an RBI single to left that scored Lynch and East took a quick 1-0 lead.
The Flying Eagles (1-10) answered that run with two of their own in the bottom half, then, after both teams went scoreless in inning number two, Beckley took a 2-1 lead into the third.
Ball. Game.
The Spartans (2-9) began the third frame with a single from Sonny Herbert, a double from Lynch, an RBI double from Roshau, a 2-run single from Josiah Spencer, a DP Seams base knock, a Clay Patton hit-by-pitch, a 2-run single from Bo Bundy, and then Evan Dixon and Kaiden McKneely were both hit by pitches. After that, Lynch had his second double of the inning that scored Dixon, ditto for Roshau who knocked in two more, and finally, Spencer’s second hit of the frame brought Roshau across home plate.
Phew. That was a lot. And it was a lot of runs that Greenbrier East put on the scoreboard too, 11 to be exact, in that third inning to put the Spartans up 12-2 as they were rolling right along at that point.
The Spartans put up two more runs on the evening when Herbert had an RBI groundout and Dixon singled home Seams to cap the offensive onslaught.
Seams started a double play in the fifth and then he got Aiden Scarborough to fly out to Brayden Brown in left field to end it.
East will travel to Herbert Hoover this Thursday, April 9.
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