The Indians took their first-ever playoff series in the opening round Tuesday at home against Oglethorpe County. #4-ranked TFS won the first game 10-0, walking off with a fielder’s choice groundout from Caden Walker after six innings. In the second game, scored three in the sixth to put the finishing touches on a 7-2 win.
GAME 1
The Indians scratched across a run in the first to get things going on a Diego Gonzalez sac fly. A 5-run second included a Gregory Mendez RBI single, a Danny Grant two-run single, and a Gonzalez RBI doubled.
In the fourth inning, TFS grabbed three more runs to push the lead up to 9-0. A fielder’s choice groundout by Walker in the sixth triggered the run rule. Chase Pollock (5-2) was dealing, and grabbed the complete game shutout with a 2-hit, 6-inning performance peppered with six strikeouts and a single walk. Six different players had one hit apiece, and Grant and Gonzalez had two RBI.
W: Chase Pollock (5-2)
RBI: 2 Danny Grant, 2 Diego Gonzalez, Chase Pollock, BJ Carver, Caden Walker, Gregory Mendez
GAME 2
The bats stayed hot early in game two. With TFS this time as the ‘visiting’ team, Ashton Roache homered in the first to center after a double by Grant. Oglethorpe County tied it up with single runs in the second and third. Carver homered on a line drive to left to put the Indians back ahead 3-2, leading off the fourth. That marked his first homerun in his Tallulah Falls career.
TFS added three in the sixth, courtesy of a pair of bases loaded hit batsmen. Mendez doubled home Carver in the seventh for good measure. Andrew Skvarka earned the win by going three innings and striking out two against four hits and one earned run. Cole Bonitatibus went the final four innings to get the save, giving up no hits and walking four against seven strikeouts. Carver had two hits, two runs, and an RBI. Walker ended with a hit, a run, and three stolen bases.
W: Andrew Skvarka (4-1)
S: Cole Bonitatibus (2)
HR: Ashton Roache (4), BJ Carver (1)
RBI: 2 Ashton Roache, BJ Carver, Danny Grant, Diego Gonzalez, Gregory Mendez
The Indians are now 21-9 on the season, and advance to their first-ever Sweet 16.
