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Baseball Streak Snapped At 11 In Doubleheader Split
HAMPTON, VA. - The Apprentice School baseball team saw its school-record tying 11-game winning streak snapped in the first game, but bounced back to split a doubleheader with Danville Community College losing 15-4 in the opener and winning 4-0 in the nightcap on Wednesday.
The Knights broke the first game wide open in the fifth scoring five runs and 14 of their 15 runs in the last three innings. Apprentice School tried to come back with a pair of runs in the fifth and sixth innings. In the fifth, Kenny Eanes drove in one with a double to left and Jonathan Dehoux drive in another on a ground out. The next inning Eric Polk singled in a pair of runs.
Polk, Dehoux, Eanes and Chris Baker had a pair of hits each in game one, while Polk drove in two of the four runs.
Game two saw the Builders ride the six-hit shutout pitching of sophomore Tabb Griffey to earn the split with a 4-0 victory. Griffey allowed six hits, struck out four and only walked one in picking up his second win of the year.
The Builders gave him his offensive support with a four-run sixth inning. With one out, Polk singled and advanced to second on a Dehoux single off the pitcher. Bryce Beale followed with a single that scored Polk for a 1-0 lead. Both Dehoux and Beale advanced on a passed ball and scored as Andrew Yonta doubled down the left field line for a 3-0 lead. Yonta scored the insurance run on a wild pitch for the eventual 4-0 win.
Dehoux was 3-for-3 in game two for the lone multi-hit player for the Builders who had eight hits in the game.
Next up for the Builders will be their first road games of the season facing USCAA rival Briarcliffe College this weekend in a three-game series starting on Friday at 4 pm near Long Island, N.Y.
