Leopards Storm Past Tornadoes in Extra Innings – Baseball
Louisville 6, Dover 2, 8 Innings
The Louisville Leopards earned a 6-2 extra inning victory over the host Dover Tornadoes in the season opener Saturday Afternoon at Dover City Park.
Louisville trailed Dover 2-1 at the start of the seventh inning. Brody Hahn started off the frame by drawing a five pitch walk. Before another pitch was fired, Hahn advanced to second base when a pickoff attempt led to a Tornadoes error. On the next pitch, Brendan Hoffman singled to left field advancing Hahn to third base. Finally, Anthony Carpico laid a bunt down the first baseline to sacrifice Hahn to the plate in tying the game at 2-2.
The Tornadoes put 2 on with 2 outs in the bottom of the seventh inning. However, Leopards pitcher Jack Davis struck out Dover’s Zach Yackey to end the the threat and force extra innings.
Louisville erupted for four runs in the top of the eighth inning to take complete control of the contest. Just like Hahn in the seventh, Adams drew a 5-pitch walk to start the frame. Two pitchers later, he swiped second base for his third steal of the contest. A groundout by Nathan Mongiardo advanced Adams to third base and Casey Nau delivered a single to center to bring him around for the go-ahead score.
The other three Leopards runs all came with 2 outs. Hoffman reached on an error scoring Nau from third. Carpico was hit by a pitch on a full count to load the bases after that. Then Cam King delivered the knockout blow by pounding a 2-run single to right field, which ripped the game wide open at 6-2.
Davis finished off the Tornadoes in the last of the eighth with the help of a Adams to Hoffman 6-3 double play. Davis pitched four scoreless innings in relief, gave up just a single hit, and earned his first career varsity victory. Starter Jordan Shearer pitched the first four innings, gave up 1 earned run on 3 hits, and struck out a pair for Louisville.
Casey Nau and Corey White both finished 2-for-4 at the dish to lead the Leopards who pounded out 9 hits as a team. Louisville’s first run came when Mongiardo singled home Adams to break the scoreless tie in the top of the third.
Dover was led by Brandon Troyer who batted a perfect 3-for-3 and recorded an RBI single in the bottom of the third. The Tornadoes swirled into the lead when Drue Nolen reached on an error scoring Kooper Smith in the bottom of the fourth.
Louisville and Dover have opened up the season against each other in all of the past five seasons. The series is an even 2-2 in these match-ups with one suspended contest that was never finished in 2014. This is the Leopards first win at Dover since they defeated the Tornadoes 7-6 in the second game of a double header back on April 19, 2008.
JV: Louisville 7, Dover 2
Freshman: Louisville 2, Dover 1
UP NEXT: The Leopards will next host the St. Thomas Aquinas Knights on Monday, March 27 at 5:00 PM. JV
VARSITY BOX SCORE
LEOPARDS 6, TORNADOES 2
Team 123-456-78–R-H-E
Louisville 001-000-14–6-9-2
Dover 001-100-00–2-4-2
LOUISVILLE LEOPARDS VARSITY BATTING
Lineup | AB | R | H | RBI | BB | K |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Tyler Adams | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 |
Nate Mongiardo | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Casey Nau | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Corey White | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Brody Hahn | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Brendan Hoffman | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Davis Burick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Anthony Carpico | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Cameron Prasco | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Cam King | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Bryce Zuppe | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Jordan Shearer | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Jack Davis | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Totals | 30 | 6 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 6 |
LOUISVILLE LEOPARDS VARSITY PITCHING
Pitching | IP | #P | S% | H | R | ER | K | BB | HR |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jordan Shearer | 4.0 | 76 | .553 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
Jack Davis | 4.0 | 57 | .544 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
Totals | 8.0 | 133 | .549 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 0 |
DOVER TORNADOES VARSITY BATTING
Lineup | AB | R | H | RBI | BB | K |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Maguire Morris | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Brandon Troyer | 3 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Zach Yackey | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
Kooper Smith | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Justin Shepler | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Nathan Pfieffer | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Drue Nolen | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Owen Poland | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Mitch Conley | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Ethan Snyder | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
Christian Raber | – | – | – | – | – | – |
Totals | 26 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 3 |
DOVER TORNADOES VARSITY PITCHING
Pitching | IP | #P | S% | H | R | ER | K | BB | HR |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Kooper Smith | 5.0 | 72 | .542 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
Mitch Conley | 3.0 | 68 | .603 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 0 |
Totals | 8.0 | 140 | .571 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 0 |
Records: Louisville 1-0, Dover 0-1
Freshman: Louisville 2, Dover 1
The Leopards Freshman stunned the Tornadoes with a pair of runs in the last of the seventh to earn a 2-1 win in the season opener Saturday.
Trailing 1-0, Grayson Beamer and Jonah Harsh both singled to start the bottom of the seventh. Two batters later, Jake Bevere walked to load the bases for Louisville. Drew Layton came in to pinch-hit and watched a wild pitch that scored Beamer for the game-tying run. Layton worked the count to 2-1 before delivering a walk-off single scoring Harsh from third to give the Leopards the victory.
Louisville managed just 1 hit against Dover pitching through the first 6 innings, before exploding for 3 base hits in the seventh. Andrew Figler singled to start the Leopards fifth inning earlier.
Hunter Selander started on the mound for Louisville, pitched the first 5 innings, gave up 1 run on 2 hits, and struck out 1. Christian Marcelli pitched 2 scoreless innings in relief to earn the victory.
FRESHMAN BOX SCORE
LEOPARDS 2, TORNADOES 1
Team 123-456-7–R-H-E
Dover 000-010-0–1-3-0
Louisville 000-000-2–2-4-1
LOUISVILLE LEOPARDS FRESHMAN BATTING
Lineup | AB | R | H | RBI | BB | K |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Andrew Figler | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Austin Pugh | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Grayson Beamer | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Jonah Harsh | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Hunter Selander | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Jake Bevere | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
Drew Layton | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Turnner Giles | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Nathan Halosinski | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Kyle Kerchner | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Christan Marcelli | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Totals | 22 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
LOUISVILLE LEOPARDS FRESHMAN PITCHING
Pitching | IP | #P | S% | H | R | ER | K | BB | HR |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hunter Selander | 5.0 | 65 | .600 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
Christan Marcelli | 2.0 | 29 | .483 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
Totals | 7.0 | 94 | .564 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 0 |
Records: Louisville 1-0, Dover 0-1