Dennis Garcia

ASHEBORO Starting the season with three nonleague wins is nice. Starting the league season with a win is even better. After the Asheboro High School varsity baseball team spotted Central Davidson three runs in the top of the first inning, the Blue Comets came storming back to record an 11-4 victory in the Mid-Piedmont Conference opener for both teams Tuesday afternoon at McCrary Park. The win lifts AHS to 4-0 on the season heading into Friday afternoons MPC game at Southern Guilford. Our goal was to be 1-0, AHS first-year head coach Brett Hoogkamp said. We struggled early. We hadnt been in that situation before, so it was good for our guys to see that they could come back. We had some guys step up who have been struggling at the plate. The Blue Comets, who registered just three hits in a win over Ragsdale Saturday, recorded 12 hits in the game. Garrett Foland, Levi Kinney, Tristan Marsh, Trevor Marsh and Parker Clayton had two hits each with Kinney and Foland recording three RBIs. Trevor Marsh knocked in a pair. Tristan really didnt have his best stuff, but he battled and gave us four innings, Hookgamp said of Tristan Marsh, the Blue Comets starting hurler. Marsh worked four innings for the win, giving up three runs in the top of the first inning and then working out of trouble in the third and fourth innings. Clayton Parker worked 1 1/3 innings, while Trevor Marsh pitched 2/3 of an inning and Nick Bailes hurled the seventh.

The Spartans took a quick lead in the first inning as a double and two walks loaded the bases with two away. Lucas Thompson drove a shot to center that turned into a three-run double as the Spartans grabbed the early advantage. Asheboro fought back with a pair of runs in the bottom of the first as Austin Curry walked, Clayton doubled and Curry scored on a wild pitch. A single by Tristan Marsh plated Clayton and made it 3-2, but three straight batters fanned to end the inning. A two-run double by Foland plated Trevor Marsh and Kinney in the third and RBI triples from Clayton and Trevor Marsh made it 6-3 after four innings. Central Davidson certainly had its chances, but Tristan Marsh stranded one runner in the second, two in the third and two in the fourth, while Clayton stranded the bases loaded in the fifth. Central Davidson also stranded two in the sixth and two in the seventh for 13 in the contest. Our defense played pretty well behind our pitchers, Hoogkamp said. AHS broke it open in the bottom of the sixth as Trevor Marsh knocked in one with a shot, Kinney drove in three with a double and Foland added a RBI double. AHS had seven extra-base hits.

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