Bulldogs Win Two More

POMEROY - While the Lady Bulldogs varsity softball team was off Tuesday, the Bulldogs baseball team pounded out two wins against non-league opponent Pomeroy Tuesday.

"They feel pretty good about themselves and it's fun to watch that," head coach Sal Benavides said. "Those kids are coming around."

The Bulldogs are now 5-5 overall and 2-2 in league.

In the Dayton boys' first game against the Pirates, the longest of the two at 2.5 hours, virtually all players' bats came alive, producing 16 hits and eight out of nine batters connecting with the ball despite what Benavides called some excellent pitching.

Guy Spallinger had three doubles and one triple in the first came, while pitcher Lowden Smith kept the Pirates at bay with 14 strikeouts, helping his team clinch a 18-7 victory.

"The first game was a team effort," Benavides said. "The whole lineup was hitting."

The second game was much closer as Pomeroy tightened its defense and pushed ahead 2-1 in the third inning. A Spallinger RBI double helped score three runs for the Bulldogs, putting them up 4-2 in the fourth. The Pirates scored one more in the sixth, after pitcher Logan Hays was relieved by Christian Warner who otherwise kept Pomeroy's offense in check.

"He (Warner) has saved our bacon more than once," the head coach noted.

One more Bulldogs run in the seventh sealed Dayton's victory 5-3. The team faces a tough opponent this weekend. The boys are playing DeSales in Dayton at 11 a.m. on Saturday.