Four teams of teenage boys are involved in one of the most fun, pressure-free activities of the summer, Babe Ruth Baseball.
Artis and Renee Stratton, who are the primary forces in salvaging Babe Ruth when the league was about to fold and who have kept it going since, are back at
work in organizing and managing the league.
In the early going, the Price Funeral Home/H&H Sheetmetal team and the Pratt's Auto/Printer's Plus team have recorded significant wins including the
Pratt/Printer's Plus team getting a lopsided win over Price/H&H. Pratt's, however, will be without one of its top players for a while. Wes Stratton
fractured his ankle while sliding.
Summaries of some of the games follow:
Price Funeral Home/H&H Sheetmetal 7
Logan Telephone/Bouldin Roofing 3
Dillion Brown doubled among his three hits and drove in a pair of runs for the winners. Garrett Strickler doubled and singled while Matt Guinn and Ashton
Ross each had a hit. Dalton Nash drove in two runs and Caleb Coursey added an RBI. Ross and Guinn each scored two runs with Stricker, Nash and Ryan Hudson
adding one each.
The sinning pitcher was Jonathan Partlow, who in 6 innings, gave up 3 runs on 6 hits, 5 strikeouts, and 3 walks.
Pratt's Auto/Printer's Plus -14
Logan Animal Clinic/Subway – 4
Four Pratt's Auto/Printer's Plus players each had four hits. Michael Riley, Desmon Quarles, Jacob Proctor and Wesley Stratton each had two hits; one by
Quarles was a double. Colby Nichols. Jordan Hendrix and Trent Deberry each singled. Quarles drove in 3 RBIs with Stratton, Proctor and Deberry adding 2
each. Proctor scored 3 runs while Stratton, Deberry, Riley, Nichols and Hendrix each scored twice and Noah Bicksler once.
Hendrix pitched one inning, giving up 2 runs on 1 hit, 1 walk and 2 strikeouts. Riley pitched 4 innings, giving up 2 runs on 1 hit, 6 strikeouts and 3
walks.
Logan Animal Clinic/Subway's two hits were singles by Hunter Crafton and Jacob Decker. Crafton, Zack Binkley and Hunter Anderson each had an RBI.
Price Funeral Home/H&H Sheet Metal 9
Logan Telephone/Bouldin Roofing 6
Matt Guinn had three hits while Dillon Brown, Garrett Strickler and Ryan Hudsoneach had two hits, including a double by Brown. Jonathan Partlow and Payton
Flick also got a hit. Hudson and Brown drove in three runs each while Guinn had two RBIs and Flick one. Guinn scored three runs while Strickler and Jerrod
England each scored twice.
Brown was the winning pitcher, giving up 1 hit, 7 walks, 6 runs and 8 strikeouts.
For Logan Tele/Bouldin Roofing, Brandon Jackson got the only hit, an RBI double. Kenton Howard also had an RBI. Jack Wright, Ben and Jack Wright, Travis
McDaniel, D.J. Price and Ethan Crow each scored one run.
Pitcher Ben Wright went 6 innings, giving up 9 runs on 12 hits, 1 walk and 8 strikeouts.
Price Funeral Home/H&H Sheet Metal 8
Logan County Animal Clinic/Subway 4
The winners scored eight runs on just four hits, two by Dillon Brown and one each by Jordan Campbell and Jerrod England. Brown drove in three runs. Matt
Guinn scored three runs, Garrett Strickler two, and Ryan Hudson, Brown and Campbell one each.
Jonathan Partlow pitched 5 innings, giving up 7 hits on 4 runs, 9 strikeouts and 3 walks.
Logan County Animal Clinic/Subway picked up seven hits with Jacob Decker getting two and Wes Stratton tripling. Also getting hits were Hunter Crafton, Josh
Stratton, Zack Decker and Dalton Clark. Scoring were Hunter Anderson, Crafton, Jacob Decker and Wes Stratton. Crafton and the two Deckers each drove in a
run.
Zack Decker pitched 2 innings, giving up 7 runs, on 2 hits and 6 walks. Crafton pitched 4 innings, giving up 1 run on 2 hits, 3 walks and 8 strikeouts.
Pratt's Auto/Printer's Plus 17
Price Funeral Home/H&H Sheet Metal 4
The winners banged out 14 hits. Hunter Crafton doubled twice. Trent Deberry had three hits while Michael Riley, Desmon Quarles and Jacob Proctor each had
two. Dalton Clark doubled and Wes Stratton and Colby Nichols each added a hit. Deberry, Proctor and Crafton each drove in two runs with Riley, Quarles and
Clark one each.
Stratton scored three runs with Nichols, Proctor, Riley, Clark, Crafton and Jordan Hendrix each scored two.
Proctor pitched 3 innings, giving up no runs on no hits, 4 walks and 8 strikeouts. Pitching an inning was Riley, giving up 4 runs on 3 hits and 2 walks.
Price Funeral Home/H&H Sheet Metal's three hits were a double by Garrett Strickler and singles by Dillon Brown and Jerrod England. Ashton Ross drove in
two runs with England and Brown plating one each. Matt Guinn, Strickler, Brown and England scored.
Brown and England pitched the first four innings. Ross pitched one scoreless inning.