Nuccio silences the Beaver bats.
After finally meeting Coach Phil Clark of Bartlett and hearing him speak of his young club’s inexperience, we got to see first hand his big sophomore right-hander Matt Nuccio. Matt is a fine 06 prospect who was dominate on the mound for the Panthers. Matt threw six innings for the win and gave up 3 runs on 3 hits while striking out 12 Beavers.
Karns went from their 12 hit game against Houston to only 3, singles by Alex Henry and Jody Phillips and a 2 run homerun by sophomore Heath Cheverton, his second on the early season.
Karns started lefty Landon Chester who was relieved by sophomore Lee Henry in the fourth inning. Landon gave up 6 runs on 6 hits while striking out 4 and Lee gave up 1 run on no hits with 5 K’s. Karns committed 4 errors while Bartlett had none.
Coach Clark was nice to allow the Beavers to practice on the Bartlett facilities today with the hope of a better outcome tonight against Gerrmantown who is 2-0 in the tournament after a 9-1 win over ECS. I also got to see Zach Cozart hit a HR in the 13-4 Collierville win over Jackson Northside.
The big news on the night was the Houston loss to Munford by a score of 5-3. The winning pitcher was Cody Overbeck and Jason Adams took the loss for Houston.
Thanks to Coach Clark for the use of his field for practice today.
"If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot."