RED DEVILS DROP FIRST GAME IN WEST MORGAN SERIES

The Elkmont Varsity Red Devils' series against the Area 15 leader, the West Morgan Rebels, started today at the Hilltop.  Unless the Danville Hawks were able to upset the Clements Colts, Elkmont needed to split with the Rebels to secure a playoff spot.  The Red Devils had nine hits including a home run by Michael Haney to score ten runs.  However, the West Morgan Rebels were able to take advantage of errors, hit batters, walks and eleven hits to turn a solid offensive performance into a win, 15 - 10.  It looked like Elkmont would be going to West Morgan tomorrow with their backs against the wall as they tried to get that prized win to send them to the playoffs.  Sometimes, the baseball fates smile and they did today as Danville upset Clements 3 -1, giving the Red Devils something special -  sharing the football and men's basketball teams success by getting to the playoffs.

Area 15 Standing:

West Morgan    5 - 0

Elkmont            3 - 2

Clements           1 - 4

Danville            1 - 4

Today's game summary:

Lineup:

Pitcher       -  Jared Bailey

Catcher      -  Skyler Gant

1st Base     -  Daniel Logan

2nd Base    -  Jacob Blenkinsopp

Short Stop  -  Ben Ferguson

3rd Base     -  Rhett Bailey

Left Field   -  Justin Kesler

Center        -  Cole Glass

Right Field -  Michael Haney

WEST MORGAN	2	1	6	1	0	5	0
ELKMONT	2	0	4	0	3	1	0

Jared Bailey: 

starting pitcher; 2 and 2/3 innings; 4 walks, 6 hits, 1 hit batter, 2 strikeouts, 9 runs scored

Skyler Gant:  

middle relief; 3 and 1/3 innings; 4 walks, 5 hits, 3 hit batters, four strikeouts, 6 runs scored

* West Morgan batters seem to be almost standing on the plate

Daniel Logan:

finished game, pitched 1 inning, 2 strikeouts, 0 runs scored

GLASS	1B *		W*	W		W*
FERGUSON	1B *		1B*	F8		W
J. BAILEY	F7 RBI		5 - 3	K		K
GANT	K		1B* RBI		W*	K
LOGAN	E8 RBI		2B* RBI		1B*	1B RBI
WALES DH	5-3		F8* RBI		5-3	OUT   ?
KESLER		K	F8		E9		5-3
HANEY		K		1B	HR* 3RBI		5-3
BLENKINSOPP		F9		FC	1-3		K

* SCORED RUN

The Elkmont Red Devils will be traveling to West Morgan, April 3 for the second game of the series @ 4:30 pm (possible double header).  It may rain (isolated storms and showers in forecast) so bring rain gear.

ELKMONT VARSITY SWEEPS DANVILLE

The Elkmont Red Devils beat the Danville Hawks 9 - 8 in the second game of the Area series.  The West Morgan Rebels took out the Clements Colts in two games as well in their series.  If the Hill Spirit understands how the Area standings are calculated,  the Area 15 falls out like this:


West Morgan    4 - 0
Elkmont             3 - 1
Clements          1 - 3 
Danville             0 - 4

• Clements hold tiebreaker win if Elkmont and Clements are tied at the end of Area play

West Morgan and the Elkmont play their series next Monday and Tuesday.  Clements and Danville will play their series next week as well.  


If Elkmont sweeps West Morgan, the Red Devils will win the area. If Elkmont wins one game, they will come in second.  
If West Morgan wins both games against Elkmont and Clements wins both games against Danville, Clements will come in second place and the Red Devils will miss the state playoffs this year.


Look for article on today's and Monday's games tomorrow.

VARSITY RED DEVILS TAKE FIRST GAME VS DANVILLE

The Red Devils beat the Danvillle Hawks 13 - 3 in the first game of the Area Series against Danville.  Ben Ferguson was the winning pitcher.  Tyler Thomas finished the game as the relief pitcher.  Elkmont had 11 hits including a home run by Jared Bailey.  The Red Devils play the second game today at home to try to sweep the series.


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SPRING BREAK BASEBALL **** MARCH 26 -31

MARCH 26

• VARSITY AT DANVILLE @ 4:30 PM (first game of area series)
• JV AT DANVILLE @ FOLLOWING VARSITY GAME
• MIDDLE SCHOOL DOUBLEHEADER AT ELKMONT @ 4:30 PM

MARCH 27

• VARSITY DANVILLE AT ELKMONT @ 4:30 PM                                         (second game of area series plus tie breaker game) 
• MIDDLE SCHOOL AT DECATUR HERITAGE @ 4 PM

MARCH 29

• VARSITY ARDMORE AT ELKMONT @ 4:30 PM
• JV ARDMORE AT ELKMONT @ FOLLOWING VARSITY GAME

MARCH 30

• VARSITY DOUBLEHEADER AT MARS HILL @ 4:30 PM

MARCH 31

•  MIDDLE SCHOOL GAMES AT ELKMONT @ 10 AM  

RED DEVILS STILL LOOKING FOR CONSISTENCY

The varsity Red Devils' lack of consistency continues to make them a very unpredictable team.  A few games this season have shown a very good team that can compete with top ranked programs but other games have illustrated the inexperience at the varsity level and lack of pitcher development in previous years (high school program).  The Tanner game, March 23, was one of the latter as the Red Devils committed at least 5 errors and lost 14 – 0.

However, only the area games count and hopefully the Red Devils will bring their “A” game, March 26 – 27, to the Area Series vs. the Danville Hawks.

The Batting Stats:      Elkmont - 4 hits, 1 walk, 2 strike outs

The Elkmont Pitching Stats:

·      Tyler Thomas (starting) 5 hits, 1 strike out and 3 walks; 
                                    pitched 2 innings, – tagged with loss
·      Bryant Wales – pitched 1 inning; 2 balks, 2 hit batters, 1 walk

·      Michel Haney –1 hit batter, 2 walks and 2 hits,

·      Jacob Blenkinsopp - pitched 1 inning, 2 strikeouts, 1 hit