Nick Frame pitched over five frames, controlling a very talented Benedictine lineup.
Mike Goldberg (left) pitched well and had a single for Benedictine, but Lee-Davis and first baseman Jordan Walton took the victory.
by Stephen M. Lewis
DigitalSports Richmond
Lee-Davis took the lead on
Andrew Hacker's two-RBI double in the third inning and didn't look back, defeating Benedictine 6-3 Wednesday night in the Spring Break Blast.
Down 1-0, shortstop Hacker took
Mike Goldberg's two-out pitch up the gut bringing in
Will Connerley and
Jordan Walton.
"He's a player. He's pretty stealy," Lee-Davis coach
Kenny Lewis said of Hacker, who finished 3 for 3 at the plate with two doubles. "He likes to get mixed up in the action, you know how kids are, they kind of look up to that."
Lee-Davis pitcher
Nick Frame helped himself in the next inning, stroking a two-out RBI single for a 3-1 lead.
Frame, stepping into a loaded pitching fraternity of the Capital District, calmed down after a bunch of early walks to control a powerful Benedictine lineup.
That was until the Cadets looked to put together one of their patented big innings like they did late in a win over Atlee hours earlier, dropping six on the Raiders in the eighth inning.
Chris Hogan drilled a no-doubt homer over the left-field fence - he also had one to left against Atlee - to bring the Cadets within one.
Mark Measell singled, ending Frame's evening, and
Teddy Kozak followed with another single.
Goldberg, Benedictine'e leadoff hitter, looked to keep the momentum going, hitting a rope off of reliever
Taylor Marshall.
But Hacker got up from his shortstop spot to nab the sure hit.
Marshall got the powerful
Taylor Buran to flyout on the next at-bat to end the inning.
"It went off the end of his bat," Hacker said of what could have been a game-saving play. "I thought it was going to be over my head. So I just ran back a little bit and jumped up about two inches up in the air and caught it."
L-D, ranked sixth in the
latest DigitalSports Top 10, went and got some insurance in the bottom of the sixth.
B.J. Mortimer painted an RBI triple down the first-base line, then pinch hitter
Johnny Dip crushed an RBI double up the middle for a 5-2 lead.
Connerley ended L-D's scoring with an RBI single to drive in Dip.
Hacker cleaned up in the seventh giving up one run to make L-D pitching coach
Tripp Metzger's pregame proclamation true.
He told DigitalSports the score would be Lee-Davis 6-3.
Wow. Metzger's now searching for some lottery numbers.
Benedictine 010 001 1 - 3 8 1
Lee-Davis 002 103 x - 6 9 1
Goldberg, Pusey (6) and Broaddus; Frame, Marshall (6), Hacker (7) and Connerley.
Records: Benedictine (n/a); Lee-Davis (3-1)