TAUNTON — The opening season matchup between the two frontrunners in Division 1 lived as a lot because the hype.
Austin Campbell fired six innings of two-run baseball, inserting out 9 and allowing no walks, whereas Jase Lyons stranded the tying run at third base as top-ranked Franklin defeated Hockomock Kelly-Rex foe No. 2 Taunton, 3-2, on Wednesday afternoon at Taunton Excessive Faculty.
Franklin (4-0) fell to the Tigers in remaining yr’s Division 1 state remaining.
“Taunton is pretty much as good as marketed,” Franklin coach Zach Brown talked about. “Austin was actually good. We had possibilities to stretch the lead however we weren’t getting that backbreaker. If you don’t get to the Cali’s early they get stronger.”
The Panthers struck first throughout the opening inning as Ben Jarosz lined an RBI single off Tigers’ right-hander Shawn Cali to offer the company a 1-0 lead. Franklin added a pair throughout the second when Lyons dropped a base hit to correct space that scored Ryan Gerety and Ethan DePaolo to stretch the profit to 3-0.
Campbell, within the meantime, cruised through the first 4 innings, fanning six Tigers spherical solely a pair of hits. Taunton obtained to Campbell throughout the fifth as slugger Ryan MacDougall crushed a two-run triple into the outlet to trim the deficit to not less than one. Campbell regained his footing, however, and retired the next 4 straight sooner than Lyons held off Taunton throughout the seventh to secure the win.
Taunton obtained the potential tying run to third base, nonetheless Lyons obtained MacDougall to ground out to complete the game.
“Austin had management of all 4 pitches and didn’t fall into patterns,” Brown talked about. “Within the largest second he was capable of make pitches and get us out of it. MacDougall delivers an enormous blow and he’s beginning to really feel it however Austin did only a nice job refocusing.”
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