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Jackets take down Screven County
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Southeast Bulloch sophomore Cade Harnage slides in safe in the sixth inning of the Southeast Bulloch baseball game against Screven County Monday night in Brooklet. - photo by JOSH AUBREY/staff

The Southeast Bulloch Yellow Jackets were able to bounce back from a 3-0 deficit thanks to a six-run fifth inning as they would go on to defeat Screven County 10-3 Monday night in Brooklet to improve to 3-4 on the season. 


The Jackets struggled at the plate the first few innings and Screven County was able to get out to an early lead. Xander Kile came through with a 2-run single with two outs in the third. Jake Pollack brought Kile home on an SEB error for a 3-0 lead. 


Brendan O’Dowd was able to keep the Jackets in the game as he would go six innings, allowing just two hits while striking out seven. 


“I thought Brendan did a great job out there for us,” said SEB coach Brandon Peterson. “They scored three runs, but none of that was really his fault. He did a great job of keeping us in the game. We didn’t swing the bats early and made a lot of easy outs on fly balls. I was happy to see us respond when we did and show a little energy and we had a big inning.”

 

The Yellow Jacket bats finally woke up in the fifth as with runners on first and second O’Dowd sent a grounder to third, the throw was in the dirt allowing one run to score and cutting the lead to 3-1. The next batter was Carter Bowman who drove an RBI single to left to cut the lead to 3-2. Gage DiGiovanni then tied the game at 3-3 with an RBI single into left. 


The big blow of the inning came moments later with the bases loaded. Cale Thompson sent a long fly ball just out of the reach of a diving Jeremiah White in left which would clear the bases and would leave Thompson on third with a three-run triple and a 6-3 Jacket lead. 


“We really just started to put the ball in play and hit the ball hard on the ground,” said Peterson. “There was a little good fortune mixed in there and the good thing is we took advantage when they made mistakes as we barreled a couple up and made them pay for it.” 


Southeast Bulloch added four more runs in the bottom of the sixth with an RBI single by Noah Rogers and a few errors and wild pitches by the Gamecocks for the final score of 10-3. 

Rogers went 2-4 with for 1 RBI while Thompson went 1-3 with four RBI. Up next Southeast Bulloch hosts Calvary Day Friday at 6:00.