By Johnny Sanders, Sports Editor
LEEDS – The Leeds Green Wave earned their second straight win on Monday night as they hosted the Clay Chalkville Cougars, beating them 13-0 in a game that saw Dax Phillips pitch a complete game, earning the shutout win.
Leeds Pitcher Dax Phillips
(Photo by Dax Phillips)
Neither team scored in the first inning, but Leeds would break out the bats in the second, putting up 6 runs and shutting out the Cougars. Caden Vance, Jarod Latta, Will Landers, Andrew Howard and Conner Nelson all had RBIs in the inning to lead the Green Wave.
Leeds put another run on the board in the third as W Landers got on base with a double to lead off the inning. After 2 outs, T Bedell hit a triple to left field and Landers scored. Clay would manage to get T Griffin on base but the next three batters would fail to capitalize.
In the fourth, the Green Wave would explode for 6 more runs with Vance driving in Howard. Latta would then get another RBI in the game by bringing Nelson home, making it 9-0 Leeds. Landers would hit a double, bringing both Latta and Vance to the plate to put Leeds up 11-0 and all before the first out. Leeds would get Bedell on base by virtue of a walk and Bradford would be hit by a pitch to load the bases for the Green Wave. Clay would walk Howard, meaning that Landers would come in for another score. Following the walk, Nelson would get hit by a pitch and Bedell would score to make it 13-0 and that is where the scoring would end for the game.
Dax Phillips pitched the entire 5 innings, allowing just 3 hits and striking out 7 in the shutout win. Howard and Vance would have 3 RBI each and Landers would have 2. Landers would add 3 runs of his own followed by Howard and Conner Nelson with 2 each. J White would take the loss for the Cougars, pitching 3 innings and allowing 10 hits, 12 runs and striking out 2.
Leeds improves to 6-8 as the prepare to host Shades Valley on Tuesday.
The Clay Chalkville Cougars look to turn things around as they take their 1-12 record to John Carroll on Tuesday.
