Coach Andy Shelton fielded a new pack of bulldogs at Saturday morning’s opening baseball game for the area baseball jamboree that featured school teams from throughout the area. Marianna’s squad was broken into two teams, the Junior Varsity and the Varsity squads. Some of the future games will involve the combined squads.
The Saturday jamboree involved other teams from Liberty County, South Walton, Freeport, Cairo, and Bozeman. It was a full day of baseball starting at 9:00 AM and lasting until after 9:00 PM.
In the opener, the Marianna JV squad squeaked out a victory over Liberty County, 6-5. They scored two runs in their last time at bat to take the win. The winning pitcher for Marianna was Dylan Halstead in relief.
The starting pitcher was Alex Bigale who held Liberty County to one run while the Dogs built a three run lead. In the forth inning Coach Shelton changed pitchers and put Shane Blanton on the mound. Liberty County came to life at this point, and with a series of base hits and a sprinkling of walks soon found the score to be 4-4. At this point Jay Elliott took the mound with bases loaded and one out. Elliott put the fire out with a fly ball that scored a tag-up run for Liberty County, followed by a much needed strike out. Marianna went into the fifth trailing 5-4.
Neither team scored in the fifth inning, and in the top of the sixth Dylan Halstead came in to pitch to close out the Liberty County effort. In the bottom of the sixth Marianna scored the tying run on a single by Kadd Golden with bases loaded. The game ended when Ryan Riley scored on a wild pitch to put Marianna ahead.
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