FRA Wildcats Crush Skipstone
The Flint River Academy (FRA) Wildcats are boasting a record of 13-2 after defeating Skipstone Academy last week and will wrap up regular season play this week.
By JOHN KUYKENDALL
The Flint River Academy (FRA) Wildcats are boasting a record of 13-2 after defeating Skipstone Academy last week and will wrap up regular season play this week.
FRA 11 – Skipstone Acad. 1
The Wildcats earned a third straight victory on Monday, Apr. 21 with a 11-1 win over the Skipstone Academy Warriors.
The Wildcats got the scoring started in the bottom of the second inning scoring four runs and added three runs in the bottom of the fourth inning to increase the lead to 7-0.
The Warriors finally got on the board in the top of the fifth to cut the Wildcat lead to 7-1 but Flint River rallied in the bottom of the inning to score four runs and end the game by the Mercy Rule by a score of 11-1.
Seniors Sullivan “Sully” Jones and Brack Spangler put on a pitching clinic in the game. Jones tossed three innings allowed three hits, no runs, issued one walk, recorded seven strikeouts and faced 13 batters. Spangler pitched two innings, allowed one run off one hit, recorded five strikeouts and faced nine batters.
The Wildcats banged out seven hits with Spangler going 2 for 4 with a RBI; Sully Jones was scored a run and had a RBI; Conner Amerson was had a RBI and a stolen base; J. Stanton Pritchard was 1 for 2 with a run sored and a stolen base; Mason Jones was 1 for 3 with a run scored, two RBIs and a stolen base; Jack Ballard scored a run and had a stolen base; Hunter Pike was 1 for 1, scored three runs and had a stolen base; Ethan Newman was 1 for 3 with two runs scored and two RBIs and Eli Phillips was 1 for 3 with a run scored and a RBI.
1 2 3 4 5 R H E
SSA 0 1 2 0 1 1 4 2
FRA 0 4 0 3 4 11 7 3
Up Next for the Wildcats
The Wildcats will wrap up regular season play this week.
On Monday, Apr. 28 the team traveled to Milner to play the Rock Springs Christian Academy Eagles and on Tuesday, Apr. 29 the Wildcats traveled to Atlanta to play the Heritage Preparatory Rams. Results from the games were not available by press time.
The team will wrap up regular season play on Friday, May 2 when the Eagles will visit Woodbury at 6 p.m.
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