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For the second year in a row, the University Heights Academy baseball team is off to a 2-0 start. The Blazers reached the mark again by using an efficient night at the plate Tuesday to defeat host Crittenden County 10-4.
UHA scored its 10 runs on 10 hits, with four different players recording multi-hit games. Ryan Luckey, Jaiden Miles, Jackson Flynn, and Josh Pace each collected two hits apiece in the resounding victory.
The Rockets, who were playing their season opener, went ahead 1-0 in the first inning, but Heights stormed ahead for good with five runs in the third, two in the fourth, and two more in the fifth to take control. Miles had the biggest night of any UHA player, finishing 2-for-5 with a double, two runs and two RBI.
Ryan Luckey (2-for-3, run, RBI, two stolen bases), Pace (2-for-4, run, RBI), Flynn (2-for-4, run), Nic Luckey (1-for-3, two runs, RBI, walk), and Gavin LaRonge (1-for-4, two runs, RBI) touched up Crittenden starter Jeremiah Foster, who struck out five but surrendered nine hits and nine runs in 4 1/3 innings.
University Heights had a pitcher-by-committee approach, as Miles (six), Bryson Turner (four) and Nic Luckey (three) combined for 13 strikeouts. None of them worked more than three innings. Turner was credited with the victory.
CCHS got a game-high three hits from Quinn Summers in the losing effort. Lead-off hitter Evan Belt went 2-for-3 with a run. No Rocket had more than one RBI. Pitchers Seth Guess and Jayden Gibson combined for 2 2/3 innings in relief, allowing a total of just one hit, one run and three walks.
UHA (2-0) will get a day off before returning home Thursday for an 8th District matchup with Fort Campbell. The Falcons (0-2) have been outscored 39-0 in the first two games of the season — losses to Todd County Central and Christian County.
