The rough season of the Cougar baseball team continued last week with a pair of losses, dropping their overall record to 3-14.
On Tuesday, the Cougars dropped a 6-1 decision to the McLean County Cougars at Don Lee Field. On Thursday, they traveled to Hardinsburg to take on Breckinridge County and the Tigers handed them a 7-4 loss.
McLean County
Two McLean County pitchers dominated the Cougar batters, holding them to just a single hit and one run in the game. Senior right-hander Brandon Haynes started for McLean and went 4 2/3 innings giving up the lone hit and the Cougar run.
Junior A. J. Cline relieved with two outs in the fifth inning and went the final 2 1/3 giving up no hits. Cline became the winner when his team scored five runs in the final two innings to snap a 1-1 tie and give the visitors the win.
McLean scored a single run in the first inning against starter and loser, Cain Smith. The Cougars tied it in the fifth with an unearned run when Haynes threw a ball away on a pickoff attempt at first base.
McLean put the game away with three runs in the sixth inning, and two more in the seventh against Smith. Noah Bullock relieved Smith in the seventh inning and retired the next three batters, but the damage had been done.
Breckinridge County
Breckinridge County had a young gem on the hill in 8th-grader Isaac Seeger, who went the distance against the Cougars on Thursday to record the win. Seeger scattered six hits and allowed three earned runs while striking out seven and walking just one. Seeger also had a pair of hits and drove in a run for the Tigers.
The Cougars got off to a good start with a pair of runs in the second inning. Cougar starter and loser Braxton Hodges doubled into the left-field corner leading off the second, then scored ahead of Cain Smith who ripped a homerun over the fence in left field to give Grayson County a 2-0 lead.
The Tigers answered back with a pair of their own in the bottom of the inning when right fielder Kobe Poole touched Hodges for a two-run jack.
Breck went in front 3-2 with an unearned run in the third inning, but the Cougars came back with a run of their own in the fourth inning to tie things at 3-3.
The Tigers put together four hits, including a Seeger run-scoring double, against Hodges in the fifth inning to take the lead for good with three runs. The Cougars got one of those runs back in the sixth following a Smith double. Smith drove in all four runs for the Cougars. Breck added one more run in the seventh for the final 7-4 score.
By Don Brown, Local Sports
Reach Don at donbrown@k105.com
Cain Smith receives a fist-bump from head coach Danny Clark following Smith’s
two-run homerun in the second inning.
Third-baseman Noah Bullock applied a tag to Breck’s Jacob Ball
for an out in the first inning.
Braxton Hodges doubled into the left-field corner in the second
inning and later scored on Cain Smith’s homerun.
