It was a big weekend for the University Heights Academy baseball team in Somerset. The 16th-ranked Blazers rallied from seven runs down and held off No. 11-ranked Frederick Douglass 12-10 Sunday. AJ Hogart drove in four runs and Josh Pace picked up the pitching win.
The Broncos led 7-0 after three innings, but the Blazers scored six runs in the top of the fourth. Hogart had a three-run double and Thomas Hallmark also had a two-run double in the frame for UHA.
Hallmark also pitched 2 1/3 innings and struck out six batters to slow the Frederick Douglass offense.
After the Broncos scored a run in the bottom of the fifth to increase their lead to 8-6, UHA scored four in the top of the sixth inning to take a 10-8 advantage.
The Blazers increased their lead to 12-8 with two more runs in the top of the seventh. However, the Broncos scored two runs and had runners in scoring position. However, Pace got a strikeout to end the game.
On Saturday, UHA got a one-out, RBI single from Pace in the bottom of the seventh inning to defeat No. 4-ranked Sayre 8-7. Ryan Luckey went 3-for-4 in the win and Jackson Flynn earned the pitching win.
Caydence Gibson and Pace each had a pair of hits for UHA.
The Blazers are now 7-1 on the season and are scheduled to play host to Fort Campbell in a District 8 game at 5:30 p.m. tonight.
Score by Innings:
Sayre 030 110 2 – 7 8 2
University Heights 021 301 1 –8 11 0
WP – J. Flynn (3 1/3 IP, 5 SO, 3 BB).
LP – Jansky
Leading Hitters: UHA – Luckey (21B, 2B), Ca. Gibson (2 1B), Hogart (1B), Co. Gibson (1B), Jones (1B), Pace (2 1B).
Score by Innings:
University Heights 000 604 2 – 12 8 3
Frederick Douglass 331 010 2 – 10 10 0
WP – Pace (2 2/3 IP, 2 SO, 4 BB).
LP – S. Miles
Leading Hitters: UHA – Ca. Gibson (1B), Hunt (2 1B), Hogart (2B, 4 RBI), J. Flynn (1B), Jones (1B), Hallmark (2B), Pace (1B).
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