Published: May 02, 2008 04:51 pm         

Jets knock off Harriman 11-6

Tyler Sherrill, Matt Jones and Brad Wyatt each collected two hits Wednesday night to lead the CCHS Jet baseball team to an 11-6 victory over the Harriman Blue Devils in the regular season finale at Jets Park.

"This was the best year I've ever had. I enjoyed playing with these guys," said Sherrill, who singled and doubled for the Jets with three RBIs.

Added senior Cameron Pritchard, "We came out and played hard. We played good defense."

Wyatt and Jones also singled and doubled for CCHS, who finished 9-21 on the regular season.

Sherrill, Daniel Forte and Shawn Scott combined to give up six runs on seven hits with three strikeouts and two walks.

Sherrill pitched four innings, allowing three runs on five hits with three strikeouts to pick up the win, while Forte worked into the seventh inning, allowing three runs on three hits with one strikeout.

Scott came on with the bases loaded in the seventh to retire the side and pick up a save.

Trailing 2-0 after one half inning, the Jets came alive with one run in the bottom of the first, as Jones doubled, was sacrificed to third and scored on Sherrill's groundout. Wyatt followed with a single, but was thrown out attempting to steal second.

Harriman scored their third run in the fourth inning on singles by Cody Pierce and Caleb Dryman, a walk and a wild pitch.

CCHS scored five runs in the bottom of the inning on singles by Cody Davenport, Josh Sanders and Derek Hankins, doubles by Sherrill and Wyatt, two sacrifices, two errors, a stolen base and a walk to take a 6-3 advantage.

Bryan Woodlief's RBI double in the fifth made it 7-3.

CCHS scored four more times in the sixth inning on a double by Scott, singles by Jones and Sherrill, a stolen base, an error and a wild pitch for the 11-3 lead.

Harriman added three more runs in the seventh on three singles and a hitbatsman.

Clinton 12, CCHS 3: The Clinton High School Dragons scored six of the seven innings to take the victory over the Jets Tuesday afternoon in a make-up game at Jets Park.

Jet pitchers Bryan Woodlief, Cody Davenport and Cameron Pritchard allowed 12 runs on 13 hits with five strikeouts and three walks.

Matt Mott was two for three with one RBI for Clinton, while Bo Prater was two for four with two RBIs.

Four Dragon hurlers — Mickey Mullins, Nathan Bingham, Caleb Nobles and Mott — limited the Jets to three runs on seven hits with two strikeouts and one walk.

Daniel Forte had two hits with an RBI, while Matt Jones, Brad Wyatt, Josh Sanders, Woodlief and Kyle Pritchard had one safety each.

Clinton took a 1-0 lead in the top of the first inning on an error, a walk and singles by Mott and Chad Chase.

CCHS would take a 2-1 advantage in the bottom of the inning on a walk, a stolen base, an error, two fielder's choices and a single by Daniel Forte, but that was all of the scoring for Jets until a solo run in the sixth on a hitbatsman, a double by Wyatt and a groundout by Sanders.

In between, Clinton would score four times in the third on singles by Matt Marsh, Mott and Nobles, a double by Prater and an error.

A solo run scored in the fourth on a walk, a passed ball and an RBI single by Nobles, with the Dragons adding three more runs in the fifth on two walks, singles by Shane Roberts and Blake Kidwell, an error and a wild pitch.

Two runs were added in the sixth on a single by Prater, a double by Nathan Bingham and an error, with the final run coming on a double by Damon Knipp, a walk and a wild pitch in the seventh.

For the Jets, Woodlief would double in the second, be sacrificed to third, but was thrown out at the plate trying to score on a wild pitch.

Jones singled in the third.

The Jets had a walk and singles by Wyatt and Forte in the fourth, but couldn't score.

Kyle Pritchard delivered a pinch hit single in the seventh.