Marietta baseball drops 13-10 decision to Athens
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Center fielder Landon Baker gunned down two runners at the plate, Luke Brandes worked an effective five innings to earn the win and Carter Wharton had a four-hit effort as Athens knocked off Marietta, 13-10, here Tuesday evening at Legion Field.
The 2-8 Tigers of skipper Josh McKitrick, who took a quick 2-0 lead in the first before falling behind 11-4 and watching a late rally come up a little short, will try and snap a four-game slide when the orange and black play a 5 p.m. affair Thursday at Fort Frye.
Marietta starter Cooper Laumann worked the first four innings, but left trailing 6-4 as a quartet of the runs were unearned. Laumann allowed eight hits, walked one and recorded eight strikeouts.
Cam Goeller and Laumann singled and scored in the first thanks to a wild pitch and the first of five Bulldog errors.
The Tigers committed the first of their six errors to open the second, which allowed Brandes to reach. He scored on a Tiger outfield error.
Landon Baker and Landon Wheatley started the Bulldog third with back-to-back singles. AHS, now 4-3 with a home game at 5 p.m. today versus Vinton County, plated four runs -- two unearned -- as the lone RBI came from Wharton.
Marietta's Izak Knighten, who went 4 for 5 and had a two-run double during a four-run sixth, singled and scored in the third on Wakefield's RBI two-bagger, which made it 5-3.
Weston Davis doubled and scored in the fourth on an error, which answered Athens' run in the top of the inning when Baker reached on a fielder's choice and scored on Wheatley's knock.
Athens pushed across two runs in the fifth and three in the sixth to forge an 11-4 cushion. The only RBIs came in the sixth when Sam Trainer took one for the team with the bases loaded and David Sharp followed with an RBI base on balls.
Davis and pinch-runner Owen Riley scored on Knighten's double in the sixth. Laumann and Luke Baumgard also had RBI singles, but the hosts still trailed 11-8.
The final two runs for Athens came on RBIs from Wheatley and Easton Nuzum in the seventh.
MHS plated two in the seventh when Davis scored on an error and Carson Strahler had an RBI groundout.