Blue Knighthawks Take Game One of Series Behind McIntyre and Rogers
Wes Mcintyre pitched 7 strong innings for the Blue Team and Mills Rogers helped the offense with a 2- run Home Run in the first to lead the Blue to a 7-6 Game One win.
JEFFERSON CITY, Tenn. - The Blue Knighthawks won game one of the Blue and Orange World Series, 7-6, on Sunday afternoon.
Wes McIntyre (Chattanooga, Tenn.) went seven innings, giving up one run on five hits. He struck out six batters to pick up a win in game one.
Mike Mullin (Bradenton, Fla.) pitched two thirds of an inning to pick up a save.
The Blue Knighthawks would take a 2-0 lead in the first on a two-run home run by Mills Rogers (Simpsonville, S.C.).
The Orange Team would pick up a run the bottom of the first on a Jeff Lockwood (Knoxville, Tenn.) single, driving in Cody Nix (Cartersville, Ga.), who had tripled with one out.
The Blue Knighthawks would add a run in the second inning and two runs in the seventh to take a 6-1 lead.
Rogers would add another RBI on a sac fly in the eighth, for the seventh and ultimately the winning run for the Blue Team.
The losing pitcher for the Orange Team was DJ Ferguson (Jupiter, Fla.). Ferguson pitched four innings giving up four runs and striking out nine. Game two is slated for 3:30 p.m. on Monday.
Game Two starters-Blue-Robby Thigpen/Orange- Cy Fraker
Hitting Stars-Blue Team-Zach Long- 2-5 RBI/ Run Scored; Mills Rogers-1-2 3 RBI's; Morgan Gregory- 3-5 RBI.
Orange Team-Derek Long- 1-2 2 walks; Corey Adams -2-3 2 RBI's-Double; Scott Davis- 1-2 2 RBI's-Double
Pitching Stars- Blue Team- Wes McIntyre- 7 IP, 1 run, 6 K's
Orange Team- DJ Ferguson-4 IP-9 K's; Ryan Hendrickson- 1 2/3-1 hit; Zack Groat- 2IP-1 hit.
COACH GREG ROGERS- "Wes was huge, he kept us in game. Robby will compete tomorrow like Wes did today"
COACH MATT WARD-" I am very impressed with bottom of 9th and the way we finished. The miscues early, even those before the game cost us. Hats off to McIntyre, very dominating performance. I can't wait for game 2."
