Athletics News
Indians finish as State Runner-Up
The Indians finished as State Runner-Up after taking losses on Friday at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro against #1-ranked Prince Avenue Christian. #2-ranked TFS (27-12) dropped game one 6-5 in extra innings. PAC won the second game 9-4.
GAME ONE
Tallulah Falls scored three in the first to set the stage. Diego Gonzalez had an RBI singles, and Chase Pollock had a run-scoring hit moments later. A Chris Waldron RBI fielder’s choice made it 3-0 to give Pollock a nice lead.
Prince Avenue battled back with a 2-run homer in the home half. The Indians got a run back in the third on Waldron’s RBI single to right to score BJ Carver. That 4-2 lead held til the fifth, when the Wolverines scratched across one. TFS used a Danny Grant RBI single to center in the seventh to take a 5-3 lead into the final half inning. Prince took advantage of an error and scored twice to tie it and go to extras. In the eighth, the Wolverines had a two-out walkoff double to win 6-5.
Cole Bonitatibus took the tough-luck loss, while Pollock went six innings with six strikeouts. TFS got two hits from each of Caden Walker, Grant, and Waldron.
L - Cole Bonitatibus (8-2)
RBI - 2 Chris Waldron, Chase Pollock, Danny Grant, Diego Gonzalez
GAME TWO
Prince Avenue took control early with a 5-run fourth inning to break what had been a scoreless game. TFS got a run in the bottom of the fourth, but the Wolverines got it right back in the fifth. The Indians found some life in the fifth when Grant tripled in a run, and Gonzalez had a sac fly to make it a 6-3 game.
The Wolverines got three in the sixth to pull away. Caden Walker had an RBI hit in the sixth to pull back within 9-4.
Andrew Skvarka (5-2) took the loss after going 3.2 innings and giving up five unearned runs, as Tallulah Falls committed four errors. Seven different hitters recorded hits, while Waldron, Pollock, and Carver each had two.
The Indians finish the season at 27-12 overall and as the GHSA State Runner-Up.
L - Andrew Skvarka (5-2)
RBI - Danny Grant, Diego Gonzalez, Chris Waldron, Caden Walker