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| Big Game Hunter shows off his HR ball and the old school wood bat he used to drive it out of the park. |
It was a perfect day and a great setting for baseball at Hickory Flats that was only made better by the beautiful sound of the crack of wood bats. The Knights made the most of it with a dominant 12-2 win over the Coal Mountain Raiders. The outstanding performance started with an Austin Hansell strikeout and ended with a towering homerun by Big Game Hunter Williamson.
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| Austin Hansell struck out 4 and went the distance for the Win. |
Austin was brilliant on the mound going the distance with 4 strikeouts for the win. Austin was overpowering with his fastball and his defense was solid behind him. Hunter had 2 assists and caught a line drive at second and Austin helped himself with 2 assists from the mound. In the defensive play of the game, it appeared that Coal Mountain picked up a rare hit off of Austin with a hard drive into RF but Gil Hastings scooped it on the move and made a great throw to Presley Field at 1B for a 9-3 putout. Presley was perfect as usual converting all 6 of his put out opportunities.
While Austin was shutting down the Raiders, the Knights offense exploded. Already leading 2-1 going into the bottom of the 2nd, Marietta got hits from Hunter, Jackson Tysinger, Mason Doyle and Austin and walks to Presley and Gil to push 2 more across and load the bases for George Krivsky. George rocketed a ball to straight away center that hit just a foot below the top rail and shook the fence as Mason and Gil scored to put the Knights in control at 6-1.
The most comical moment of the game also happened in the 2nd after Presley led off with a walk. The Coal Mountain dugout seemed extremely concerned that Presley would swipe second and had their pitcher throw over 7 times. Each time Presley dove back creating a huge cloud of red clay dust. When the dust cleared, Presley could be seen grinning and shaking his head wondering why he was being put through all of that. The Knights dugout was heard shouting "We got soap!" There is no word yet on whether the Raiders' Advance Scout has been fired.
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A horse drops by to watch Schubie work behind the plate at
the always unique Thomas Field at Hickory Flats |
The Knights put it away in the 4th. Gil singled, stole 2nd and 3rd and scored on a single by Austin. George followed that with a single. After a line drive out, the Knights led 7-2 with 2 outs. Austin Schubert singled in Austin and moved George to 3rd. After Schubie stole 2nd, Presley blasted a double into the RCF gap that scored George and Schubie and the Knights lead was 10-2. The Knights crowd spread along the hill under the shade trees down the 1B line was already loud and proud when Big Game Hunter came to the plate. Hunter got a high, inside fastball and unloaded on it just in front of the plate. The left fielder went back to the track and appeared to be set up under the ball, but simply turned and watched it sail high over his head and land on top of the batting cage beyond the left field fence. Hunter touched them all and jumped into the arms of his celebrating teammates at home plate as the Raiders walked off the field. The 2 run shot gave the Knights a run rule win at 12-2. By chance, Hunter's former All Star coach Jerry Harris of the FCA Patriots was throwing BP in the cage during the homerun and made sure that Coach Rob got the ball.
The win was another great team performance and earned the Knights the #2 seed coming out of their pool. The Knights offense was awesome with 12 hits and 4 players (Austin, George, Presley and Hunter) had 2 RBI's each. Austin's pitching and team defense never allowed the Raiders a chance to stay in it.
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