Eagles take 2 vs. Cats on diamond
Hiwassee Dam – Hiwassee Dam’s baseball team also won two games Friday, topping Andrews 8-3 and 4-1. It’s the first time the Eagles have swept the Wildcats since 2015.
“Pitching was incredible,” head coach Tommy Strickland said. “Evan Hedrick and Clay Davis pitched two incredible games. Shut them down, kept them down. We had timely hits, we had good base running. It was just a complete game.”
After faltering late in an 11-10 loss at Copper Basin, Tenn., the previous day, Hiwassee Dam (5-6 overall, 3-3in conference) was locked in against the Wildcats (0-7, 0-6). Hedrick pitched a five-inning complete game to open the doubleheader, and Davis did the same in the second game. Hedrick allowed two hits and struck out nine in giving up three runs, while Davis allowed four hits and struck out five while giving up one run.
The Eagles jumped out to a 7-0 lead in the first game, with Hedrick and Tanner Taylor pacing the offense with three hits each. Freshman Trenten Beavers had two hits and drove in three.
Taylor got Hiwassee Dam on the board in the second game with an RBI single in the first that scored Hedrick, who would score again when Andrews misplaced a Davis fly ball in the third. Davis would later come around to score on an RBI single by Seth Hooper.
After Isaac Weaver doubled home Donovan Bateman in the bottom of the inning, Hedrick answered back with an RBI single in the fourth that scored Kyle Taylor. Davis shut Andrews down in order in the bottom of the fourth and fifth to close out the game.
“We knew we needed these two games because we knew they were conference,” Strickland said. “That was the mindset we went into these with, and we pulled these out.”