The Heritage Christian Academy baseball team put a five-game losing run behind it with a pair of victories on the road at Caverna on Saturday. The Warriors improved to 4-11 with three of those wins coming at the expense of Caverna, while the Colonels remain winless through eight games.
The Warriors only needed three innings to prevail in the opener, pushing 11 runs across in their first at-bat to break the game open. They benefitted from five walks, two errors, and a hit-by-pitch, with RBI triples by Ethan Miles and Collin Outland.
It was more of the same in the top of the second, with an RBI double by Cadyn Travis, and run-scoring singles by Bradley Boyd, Caden Gresham, and Tycen Wells doing the damage.
HCA’s Bradley Boyd only allowed two baserunners through the first two innings before Conner Ray’s RBI triple and a Warrior error got Caverna on the scoreboard in the bottom of the third.
Boyd earned his second win of the season, allowing one earned run on three hits with three walks and seven strikeouts. Miles and Gresham each drove in three runs, Boyd added two RBI, and Henry Bullard finished with two hits and an RBI.
The second matchup wasn’t quite as comfortable, with the Warriors trailing 6-1 after two innings. However, a nine-run third put them in control, and Caverna only managed one run over the remaining five frames.
Three straight Colonel errors to open the third, the first of six in the frame, opened the door for HCA. Outland added an RBI single and Bullard drove in another run with a base hit to put the Warriors in front 10-6.
Gresham finished off a four-RBI game with a single in the top of the seventh, and Outland finished with two runs driven in. Travis and Bullard each had two hits, and Bullard and Preston Haddock each drove in a run.
Outland earned the win on the mound for the Warriors, surrendering four earned runs on two hits with ten walks and eight strikeouts. Gresham worked a scoreless inning and two-thirds in relief with a walk and a strikeout.
Heritage Christian will welcome Christian Fellowship to Hopkinsville on Tuesday looking to make it three wins in a row. Christian Fellowship won last season’s meeting 7-6.
