Indians Rout Red Raiders
The Stephens County Indians baseball team won their 4th straight Region-8 AAAA game Tuesday night with a rout of Madison County 11-3 in Danielsville.
The Indians are now one win away from claiming 2nd place in the region and a home state playoff series.
After 2 scoreless innings, the Indians got things rolling in the 3rd sending 11 batters to the plate and scoring 5 runs. Carson Brock led off with a walk and went to 3rd base on a wild pick-off throw. Dawson Sorrells singled in Brock, Eli Wenger walked, Cayden Maxwell singled home Sorrells, Davis Swenson doubled home Wenger and Maxwell, and Cole Snyder’s bases loaded walk scored Ben Hobbs running for Swenson.
After Madison County scored a run in the bottom of the 3rd, the Indians came back with 3 more runs in the 4th. After Sorrells reached on an error, Wenger stroked his 2nd home run of the season over the left field fence to make the score 7-1. The Indians added one more run in the inning when Isaiah Martin walked, Ridge Adams singled, and Cole Snyder’s infield hit made it 8-1.
Madison County pulled closer in the 5th inning on Adam Echols 2-run home run, but the Indians would score 3 more runs in the 7th when Hobbs reached on an error, Sorrells singled, Wenger singled home Hobbs, Maxwell scored Sorrells on a ground out, and Wenger scored on Martin’s sacrifice fly for the final tally.
Davis Swenson pitched well again for the Indians going 6 innings for his 6th win. Swenson allowed just 2 earned runs, struck out 11 and walked just one.
Stephens County is now 5-5 in Region play, 15-11-1 overall, and with North Oconee’s win over Oconee County, sit alone in 2nd place. Madison County falls to 10-12 overall and 3-7 in Region-8 play.
The two teams will meet again on Wednesday in a doubleheader to close the regular season.The games were originally scheduled for Friday, but moved to Wednesday to beat the rain. Senior night festivities will begin around 4:30 P.M. WNEG will broadcast both games of the doubleheader with airtime scheduled for 4:45 P.M.