Baxter no hits Clarkrange, Adams gets complete-game win over Pickett

CELINA-Junior Lady Bulldog Baylor Walden and her Bulldog classmate Kolton Brown both hit home runs for their Clay County teams to help them advance to the next round of their respective District 7-A Tournaments.

Walden went yard to center field to help lift the Lady Dawgs over Clarkrange by a score of 7-0 here Wednesday night, before Brown pulled one over the left field fence to supplement a Bulldog offensive explosion—which resulted in a 16-6 domination of Pickett County Thursday night in Gordonsville.

Brown went three for four at the plate against the Bobcats, as did juniors Nolan Adams and Aiden Keen.  The Bulldog batting trio also accounted for a total of 10 RBIs, while juniors Reece Adams and Witt Kaslikowski, along with sophomore Kale Trobaugh, all had two hits apiece.

Walden complimented her homer with a double, while her classmate Reagan Cherry matched Brown with a three-for-four outing.  Sophomores Jenna Thompson, Haylen Garrison, and Emma Wix, along with freshman Lila Birdwell, also had hits against the Lady Buffaloes.

Boys moved to Saturday,

girls will play on Monday

By beating the #3 seed Bobcats, the #2 seed Bulldogs advanced into the winners’ bracket to face #1 seed Gordonsville. The game was originally scheduled for Friday, but has since been postponed due to weather and will be played Saturday at a time yet to be determined.

The #2 seed Lady Bulldogs were set to travel to #1 seed Gordonsville on Monday for their 5 p.m. winners’ bracket contest, after the Tigerettes also beat the #4 seed RBS girls.

Baxter no hits Lady Buffs 

Lady Bulldog freshman pitcher Riley Baxter threw her third-straight no hitter in the Clarkrange win, after closing out the regular season with a perfect game against Pickett County and her initial no hitter at Red Boiling Springs.

She struck out a whopping 17 Lady Buffaloes in the victory, where Walden got the Lady Dawgs on the board in her first at bat.

After Cherry had a lead-off single, Walden teed off on her two-run blast to give the Clay County girls a 2-0 lead.

The score remained the same until the bottom of the fourth inning, where Wix drove in a run to add one more to the tally.

Garrison then sparked a Lady Dawg four-run sixth inning with her hit, before Baxter retired the side via strikeout to close it out in the top of the seventh.

Dawgs rally  from behind

The Bulldogs fell behind 6-0 early to Pickett County, before a Keen 2-RBI double in the bottom of the second inning cut the Bobcat margin to four.

Brown then drove in his first run to start a Bulldog rally in the third inning, where they scored eight to take control of the game.

Reece Adams and Keen both followed Brown’s lead to plate a total of three runs, Trobaugh and Nolan Adams drove in two more, and Bobcat errors accounted for the other pair—the sum of which surged the Dawgs ahead 10-6.

Brown’s left-field bomb then made it a five-run game in the fourth inning, before the Clay County boys added five more down the stretch to win going away.

After Pickett County jumped ahead, Nolan Adams held the Bobcats scoreless for his final four innings on the mound and went the distance to earn the postseason win.