Members of the Elizabthtown All-Stars are: Front Row (Left to Right): Braylon Cromartie, Collin Cole, Easton Bostic, Tyler Eason, Fox Sutton, Hunter Wood. Second Row: Brady Marlowe, Jayce Hatcher, CJ McCracken, Joshua Dawson, Jaxon Hair, Claxton Tatum. Back Row: Coach Dale Wood, Head Coach Kyle Bostic, Coach Joseph Hatcher.
DUNN – Riegelwood defeated Elizabethtown 6-2 Sunday night in a second round game in the North Carolina Dixie Youth Baseball State AAA (Minors) Tournament.
Elizabethtown will play Montgomery County on Monday at 3:30 p.m. in an elimination game.
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Photos by Kenneth Armstrong, https://www.kenarmphoto.com/
Jayce Hatcher led off the game with a single for Elizabethtown and raced home with the game’s first run when C.J. McCracken smacked a two-out single.
Riegelwood turned two errors, a walk and a hit into a pair of third inning runs, then used three hits, two hit batters and an error to open up a 5-1 lead in the fourth inning. Another error and a pair of groundouts padded the margin to 6-1 in the fifth.
Fox Sutton reached base on an error to start the Elizabethtown sixth inning, and Joshua Dawson and McCracken reached base on errors that scored Sutton.
Claxton Tatum smashed a double to lead the Elizabethtown hitters. McCracken, Hatcher, Collin Cole and Braylon Cromartie connected for one hit each. Hatcher and Sutton scored runs, and McCracken drove in a run.
Hatcher pitched the first 3.1 innings for Elizabethtown and allowed five runs – two earned – on four hits, two walks and two hit batsmen while striking out two. McCracken relieved and allowed an unearned run in 1.2 innings while striking out two and walking one.
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