#12 LCA with the win.

How did both teams look?

Good start to the season for LCA. They have a solid club and this will be just one of many wins this year.

LCA is a very solid club, look for them to make a deep run in the postseason again this year. Their bats looked to be in mid-season form, and their starting pitcher was mid-upper 80's and hit his spots all night.

 

I thought that Boyle played alright for their first game, a lot of kids seeing playing varsity for the first time. I think that 5 or 6 of the starters are playing regular time varsity for the first time, so they should be a team that improves as the year goes on. A couple of errors hurt the team, and there was some mental mistakes here and there, but for the first game of the season against a legitimate top 10 team, I was very pleased.

 

On the mound, Whittle looked alright. He struggled with his control in the first inning, walking a couple and hitting a batter, but got out of it only giving up one run. He was hitting 88-89 on the gun of one of the college coaches that was there. Ross was a nice choice to follow Whittle on the mound. This freshman threw strikes, had a nice curve ball.

 

Some Stats from the BC Baseball website:

Cody Morris - scored 1 run

Ben Carter - 1 hit

Garrick Whittle - 1 hit, 2 RBI's

Logan Tritapoe - 1 double

Kody Ross - 1 hit

Jacob Bodner - 1 hit

Jordan Walker - scored 1 run

 

Garrick Whittle took the loss, pitching 3 2/3 innings giving up 10 hits, 3 BB, 4 SO, 4 earned runs.

 

 

Kody Ross pitched in relief, pitching 3 1/3 innings giving up 5 hits, 1 SO, and no runs.

If the kid from LCA was hitting the upper 80's, the rest of Lexington better watch out. The Lexington paper has him listed as their number three pitcher.

From the Advocate:

 

Boyle County coach David Camic knew his young team would have a big challenge facing Lexington Christian pitcher Austin Johnson in his team's season opener.

 

And the LCA fireballer stymied the host Rebels, tossing five innings of two-hit baseball as the Eagles won 7-2 Monday.

 

"He had good stuff, a good slider. He had good command the whole game," said Camic, who said Johnson hit 89 mph on the radar gun. "89's tough the first day when you've been seeing tennis balls in the gym. Campbellsville (in a scrimmage), they didn't have anybody like that. And we didn't have anybody like that.

 

"You don't practice against 89.