For four innings, Providence Christian and pitcher Porter Dykes kept escaping trouble against St. James on Saturday afternoon in a decisive Class 3A state playoff series game at the PCS
The persistent Trojans broke through in the fifth inning with four runs. Two innings later, the floodgates erupted for St. James, which capitalized on Providence mistakes to score eight runs in pushing a two-run lead out to an eventual 13-3 victory.
"We played a really tough schedule and they won a lot of tough games. To finish in the quarterfinals in game three and being in the game in the fourth, fifth inning ... if you would have told me before the season, will you take that? We would have said yes.”On Saturday, the Eagles couldn’t stop St. James’ constant traffic on the base paths. The Trojans had 29 batters reach base via hits, walks, errors and force outs.
“Baseball is a round ball with a round bat and sometimes it is hard to get hits,” Smith said. “We were taking good swings, but were just missing. Credit to him for throwing strikes as we didn’t put a lot of people on base. Hitting is hard.” The Eagles wrestled the momentum away in the sixth, scoring twice to cut the gap to 5-3. Providence loaded the bases off walks to Snell and Stickler and a bunt single by Dykes. Harrison Mims reached on an infield single in the shortstop hole to score Byrd, Snell’s courtesy runner. After a strikeout, Brooks Canady brought in Stickler with a sacrifice fly. A single by CJ Sullivan reloaded the bases, but a ground out ended the inning.
In addition to Tabor Offord’s three hits, the Trojans were also led by Cole Anderson with two hits and five runs batted in, Jackson with two hits and three runs batted in and Beard with two hits and one RBI.
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