Black Knights get win No. 1 in dominant fashion
Copperhill, Tenn. – A 10-run inning from the visiting team has to leave a sour taste in your mouth.
When it happens in the top of the first, it can also leave you feeling defeated.
Robbinsville poured off the bus in Polk County, Tenn., on Monday and poured on the heavy pressure from the get-go, scoring all the insurance needed in the first two innings to chalk up its first win of the season thanks to a five-inning, 13-0 blanking of the Copper Basin Cougars.
Held in check by a 11-strikeout, no-hitter from freshman Rylan Orr, the hosts did little to muster a response after Robbinsville (1-6) pounced on the Cougars.
The outpour began when Bryce Adams led off the game with a double and later scored on a one-out error. Peyton Brooks went on to single, and usher in courtesy runners Ayden Conley and Jackson Lane.
Brooks eventually scored when Dayne Webster was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded, while Adams and Luke Lovin drew back-to-back, bases-loaded walks that allowed Tytan Teesateskie and Benton Gibby to jog home for RBIs.
Easton Shuler cleaned off the basepath with a rare, three-run single, just before Conley came across for the second time in the first when Orr reached on an error. Brooks grounded out to finally close the floodgates.
With the bases chocked full of Black Knights in the second, Lovin cleared the way again by roping a two-out triple to run his RBI total on the day up to four.
The only blemishes on Orr’s no-no came in the bottom of the first, when Cade Dean was hit by a pitch; and both Eli Henderson and Cooper Floyd drew leadoff walks in the fifth.
The Knights fell 11-8 in Tuesday’s Smoky Mountain Conference opener at Andrews (1-2). Stats from the game were not received by press time.