The first county rivalry battle on the baseball diamond between East Burke and Freedom was a good one. The Patriots held East Burke to two runs through three innings, before the Cavaliers scored eight runs in the fifth inning to get the lead back. That inning led to East Burke's first win of the 2010 season with an 11-7 score at Freedom High.
"Freedom and East Burke is always a good rivalry, in anything we play in, and we were just fortunate to come away with a victory," said East Burke head coach Mark Buffamoyer.
After the Cavaliers ended the opening inning with a 2-0 lead, Freedom tied the game scoring one run each in the next two innings. The fifth inning is when the Cavaliers caught fire. With two East Burke runners on base, J.J. Blanton hit a single to right field to bring Ethan Hull across home plate and the Cavaliers got the lead back with a 3-2 score.
After Hal Hudson came across home plate due to a Patriot error, the Cavaliers put up three more runs on the board off of walks given up by Freedom's pitching, and the score increased to 7-2.
That wasn't the last of East Burke runs in the inning, as Hull got to bat again for a double to bring Matt Langer, Tate Fullbright and Cody Pittman across home plate to bring the score to 10-2.
Kreg Fulbright, Matt Timmons, Cameron Waters and Hunter Milligan got RBI's for the remaining innings, to cut East Burke's lead but it wasn't enough for a comeback.
"We've just got to compete every inning, not just take an inning of," said Freedom head coach Clint Zimmerman. "The one thing I can say is they didn't give up when it was easy to. Coach Buffamoyer has done a good job and they deserved to win."
In this county-rivalry battle, East Burke's starting pitcher Donnie Hughes, in five and a half innings of play, threw eight strikeouts. Timmons, Waters and Marcus LaRoche combined for six strikeouts.
East Burke 2 0 0 0 8 0 1 — 11
Freedom 0 1 1 0 3 2 0 — 7
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