The Logan County Cougars have not only been piling a lots of hits, but many of them are going for extra bases. Additionally, pitching has been super, too.
The following is a look at some of those games for Coach Ethan Meguiar’s team, which goes into 13th District action Monday with a 22-8 record:
Cougars 12, AC-S 4
Bradley Taylor and Koby Wall both homered and doubled, and Taylor added a single with it while driving in three runs. Kaleb Justice homered and singled. Nick Wooden and Third Bell added two hits each, and Penick doubled. Adding singles were Braxton Meguiar, Austin Rayno and Nate Woodall. Meguiar was hit by a pitch and Woodall sacrificed successfully. Wooden worked the only walk Allen County pitching allowed.
Jackson Steward was the starting and winning pitcher. He worked one out into the sixth inning, giving up the four runs on five hits and four walks while striking out six. Parker White relieved to get the Patriots out in the sixth, and Dylan Penick worked a hitless, scoreless seventh.
Jordan Charlton was hit hard by the Cougars and took the loss. Tristen Brooks homered in the loss and Cayden Ross doubled twice.
Cougars 15, Butler County 1
Steward allowed one run on two each of hits and walks. Ethan Smock retired the side in the fifth and final inning on just 10 pitches, all but one of which contributed to three strikeouts.
Taylor was swinging a hot and powerful bat again, homering twice, doubling and walking. He had four RBIs and scored three runs.
Penick contributed mightily on offense, too, homering and singling, driving in a pair of runs. Wall homered and singled, totaling three RBIs and two runs scored.
Uncharacteristically, none of Justice’s three hits went for extra bases Meguiar doubled, singled, drove in three runs and scored one. Bell doubled and singled. Wooden singled and was hit by a pitch. Chandler Silvey scored a run.
Cougars 12, Christian County 2
Baseball wins over the Colonels come rarely and they are usually hard to come by. But Meguiar’s team scored 10 runs in the first inning to turn the win into coast mode.
In that first inning, Taylor and Meguiar led off with singles. Taylor scored on Justice’s sacrifice fly to right, and Wall reached on a two-base error. Rayno doubled both of them in. Bell and Rayno scored on Bell’s home run. Wooden made it back-to-back homers on a 2-2 pitch. Penick reached on another CCHS error, but Jacob Smock erased him on a fielder’s choice.
Taylor and Meguiar got their second hits of the inning with RBI doubles, and Meguiar scored on Justice’s two-run homer, giving him three RBIs for the inning.
Ethan Smock shut the Colonels down, giving up just one hit and one walk in five innings. Both runs were unearned.
Taylor and Meguiar each had three hits with Rayno and Wooden each getting two.
Paducah Tilghman 7, Cougars 6
Logan came close to knocking off another traditional power but fell a run short on the road. The Cougars went into the seventh inning trailing 7-5, but threatened. With one out, Bell tripled and scored on Wooden’s single. He got to third on Woodall’s single, and hot hitter Taylor came to the plate, but he grounded out to end the game.
Taylor had tripled and singled earlier. Rayno and Bell had doubled. Bell finished with three hits. Meguiar had an RBI single. Wall worked the first four innings, allowing four runs on four hits and three walks. Riley Ferguson pitched four outs but gave up three runs and took the loss. White came on to record outs on the final two Tilghman batters.
Brady Betts pitched the win for Tilghman with Josh Lang getting the save.