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by Perry Lewter The hopes of a baseball playoff berth were ended last week when the Madison County Tigers stopped the Ardmore Tigers twice. The Tigers had a rough week being shut-out at Richland Monday 17-0 and then falling to Madison County 7-0 at home on Tuesday and then 6-2 at Gurley on Thursday. With the losses the season ends. If Ardmore had split with Madison County it would have forced a playoff between Madison County, East Limestone and Ardmore to see which two teams would advance to represent the area. Madison County 6, Ardmore 2 Madison County scored six runs in the second inning and never trailed in their 6-2 win over the visiting Ardmore Tigers last Thursday. Bradley Moon allowed five hits and struck out six in getting the win. Clay Wales and Josh Marlow pitched for the Tigers. |
Ardmore’s Josh Marlow fires from the mound during the Tigers’ last season game against Madison County on Thursday, April 12th. (photo by Jake Stagner) |
Ardmore’s Tigers did not score until the third inning. Matt Lannom drew a walk and scored after Will Lewis hit a single and Jarrod Mullins hit a double. Lewis scored on Matt Smith’s single.
Wales had the only other Ardmore hit.
Johnny Hornbuckle and Timothy Marsh hit a pair of singles each for the winners.
In Madison County’s big second inning at the plate Ardmore committed three errors.
Madison County 7, Ardmore 0
Johnny Hornbuckle allowed two hits while striking out eight when Madison County defeated Ardmore 7-0 last Tuesday.
Leadoff batter Zach Dickerson hit a single and scored four batters later on Michael Cooper’s fielder’s choice to put the visitors on top 1-0 in the opening inning of play.
The winners added a pair of runs in the third, fourth and sixth to assure themselves of the win.
Hornbuckle, a Walters State Community College signee, allowed Ardmore four base runners before giving way to Cooper in the seventh.
Jarrod Mullins led off with a walk in the first and later hit a single in the sixth. Jake Marlow got life on an error in the second and Will Lewis hit a single in the fourth.
Eric Atchley hit a double off of Cooper in the seventh.
Clay Wales and Josh Marlow combined to throw a 3-hitter. Dickerson had two singles for the winners while Hornbuckle had the other base hit.
Richland 17, Ardmore 0
The Richland Raiders used an 11-run second inning to hand the visiting Ardmore Tigers a 17-0 loss last Monday.
Fourteen batters went to the plate for Richland in the second inning as they produced 11 runs off of nine hits, four walks and an Ardmore infield error.
Zach Malone picked up the pitching win.
Matt Lannom’s third inning single was the only hit for the Tigers.
Ryne Strong was the only other Ardmore player to get on base.
Strong drew a walk in the second.