One Dixie Youth Championship Decided

By Lonnie Turner
One championship has been decided in the shortened Dillon Kiwanis Dixie Youth Baseball Program.
On Thursday of Week 5 in the six-week schedule, Aiden Lancaster struck out twelve and threw five no-hit innings against the Dillon Internal Medicine Hurricanes to claim the title. DIM could have forced another game for the championship, but Lancaster was in complete control on the mound on Thursday and helped his cause with a triple and scored a run in the fifth inning. Bryson Berry led the team with two singles in three trips to the plate and getting a hit apiece for the Champs were J.C. Bohachic and D.J. Greene. Bryson Davis had the only hit for the ‘Canes, picking up a single off relief pitcher Bryson Berry in the top of the sixth. Other action in week 5 included the following:

Monday July 13 Minor League
Dillon Internal Medicine 4, McLeod-Dillon 1
The Hurricanes scored three runs in the first inning and another in the second to cruise by the Marlins, 4-1, in Monday’s lone game. Bryson Davis led the winners with a perfect 2 for 2 at the plate for the only hits, while getting hits in a losing cause were Ethan Moody, Mason Stephens, Jasper McIntyre and Cayden Herring.

Tuesday July 14
Major League
Physicians Healthcare Yankees 5,
Jackson Contracting (LV) 1
The Yankees unleashed the long ball in a 5-1 win over Lake View’s Jackson Contracting in Tuesday’s first of two games. Avery Sherman homered twice and tripled in three trips to the plate and KiKi Palmer cleared the left field fence for the third home run of the game. Sherman was too much for Lake View on the mound, retiring fourteen in a row after Ian Capps hit a two out single off him in the top of the first inning. The hard throwing right-hander whiffed fifteen of the final seventeen batters he faced, while walking only one. He finished, tying a season’s game-high total of sixteen strikeouts.

Dillon Dental Giants 7, Lake View Market 3
Jaden Williamson and Ryan Carter threw a combined 3-hitter at Lake View Market in Tuesday’s second game to take a 7-3 win. With the outstanding pitching, the bats were alive and well for the Giants. Gabe Douglas was a perfect 2 for 2, including a lead-off double in the third inning, and Hayden Moody drove in three runs with a single and a double in his final two times at bat. Williamson also shined at the plate with double and a triple in three trips to the plate. Logan Barfield and Jazion Gilchrist completed the ten-hit attack with a single apiece. In a losing cause, Kayden Parnell hit a lead-off double in the sixth and scored one of two runs in the inning which was marred by two Giant errors. Chase Campbell and Ian Capps had the other two hits for Lake View.

Thursday July 16
ACE Hardware 4,
Dillon Internal Medicine 1
ACE Hardware actually clinched at least a tie for the title with it’s 4-1 win over Dillon Internal Medicine, but won the championship outright with an 8-4 win over McLeod-Dillon on Friday.

Friday July 17
ACE Hardware 8,
McLeod-Dillon 4
The Tigers scored five runs in the third inning to pull away from McLeod-Dillon and win the Championship over the three-team Minor League for the shortened six-week season.
McLeod led 4-2 over ACE, scoring two times in it’s half of the third before the ACE 5-run uprising in the bottom of the inning. D.J. Greene led the winners at the plate with two hits and Bryson Berry joined Jamison Pittman with one hit. Chuck Green had an in-the-park home run and Noah Cook tripled for the only McLeod hits.

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