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A season on the brink: East Coweta one game away from eliminationTue, 05/20/2008 - 9:19pm
By: Kevin Wandra
One thing is obvious after the Brookwood Broncos whipped the host East Coweta Indians 14-3 in Game 1 of their best-of-three Class AAAAA quarterfinal state playoff series Tuesday — the Broncos can hit. Brookwood bashed out 13 hits, including four home runs — two by Ross Heffley — in its opening-game victory. Heffley, in particular, demolished East Coweta's pitching, finishing with five hits, five RBI and five runs scored, in addition to his home runs. The Broncos were ahead 4-0 in the bottom of the second inning in Game 2, but then lighting came, and the game was canceled about 30 minutes later. Game 2 will be played at 4 p.m. Thursday. Since the teams didn’t make it through four innings in the second game, the makeup game will be started from scratch. If Brookwood wins, it will advance to the state semifinals and end East Coweta’s season. If East Coweta wins, Game 3 will be played 30 minutes following the second game. Delays wreaked havoc on both games; the first game was delayed close to an hour due to rain and lightning. Brookwood roughed up East Coweta starting pitcher Cam Bedrosian in Game 1, scoring five runs in the first two innings. Ryan Lewis ignited Brookwood’s hit parade with a two-run home run over the right field fence in the top of the first inning. Brookwood added a run each on a passed ball and a fielding error in the second, and Heffley completed the scoring in the inning with an RBI ground-rule double that hopped over the center field fence and made it 5-0. The Broncos continued to batter Bedrosian in the fifth; four of the first five hitters he faced in the inning got hits, including three that drove in runs, a solo home run by Jordan Erisman to lead off the inning, an RBI triple by Lewis and an RBI single by Ronnie Freeman that put Brookwood in front 8-0. Following Freeman’s single, Bedrosian was pulled from the game, but East Coweta’s bullpen could not stop the bleeding. Brookwood went on to score six more runs, including five in the seventh, to cap its blowout victory. Heffley drove in four of those runs, hitting a solo home run to right field in the sixth and a three-run blast in the seventh. East Coweta had only one productive inning against Brookwood starting pitcher Chase Hawkins, who recorded the complete-game, six-hit victory. The Indians scored all three of its runs off the left-hander in the fifth: Josh Shiver hit an RBI single to right field, Sean Johnson, who had singled to center field, scored on a grounder by Felton James, and Kenny Reeves hit an RBI double to deep center field. East Coweta had other chances to score — it loaded the bases in the second and had a runner on second in the third — but it failed to get a clutch hit each time. The second game was more of the same for the Broncos, who scored four runs in the second inning off East Coweta starting pitcher Jarius Rhodes. In the same at-bat when Brookwood scored a run off a throwing error by East Coweta catcher Reeves, Seth Adkins hit an RBI double to left field, and Freeman followed with a towering two-run homer that flew over the left-center field fence. Mother Nature then came to the rescue for East Coweta, lighting the sky with bolts of lightning that brought the came to a premature close. login to post comments |