Firebirds hit the ‘8s’ in beating Bruins 18-0

Eight hits, eight walks and eight Beddingfield errors added up to an 18-0 win for Southern Nash in the second of two games Friday in the Wilson Tobs High School Varsity Baseball Classic at Fleming Stadium.

The 3-A Firebirds of the 2-A/3-A Big East Conference scored nine runs in the bottom of the first inning on their way to their ninth overall win against 14 losses. The 2-A Neuse 6 Conference Bruins (6-12) managed just one hit off a trio of Firebirds pitchers. Freshman Isaiah Battle started and got the win with three hitless innings. He struck out the side each time but walked four Beddingfield batters.

Junior Landon Brown gave up one hit and struck out two in the fourth inning while freshman Caiden Peeler set the Bruins down in order in the fifth to end the contest via the mercy rule.

Jeremiah Battle was 2 for 4 with a double and two RBIs for the Firebirds while senior Blake Strickland was 2 for 3 with an RBI and three runs scored. Junior Brennan Pridgen was 1 for 2 with two RBIs while senior Keegan Wallace and freshman Maddox Deans each had a hit and an RBi. Luke Faulker also knocked in a run for Southern Nash, which also had four batters hit by a pitch.

Eight different Firebirds stole a base with Pridgen swiping two.

No further details on Beddingfield were available.

The Bruins will wrap up the regular season this week with a game at Princeton on Tuesday and home Thursday against Spring Creek while the Firebirds will play in the Big East tournament.

In the other game Friday at Fleming, Croatan (15-3) of the 3-A Coastal Conference stomped 2-A Big East member Bunn (14-7) by a 13-0 count.

Saturday’s games in the Varsity Classic start with the Raleigh Hawks home school team facing Eastern Christian home school (TEACH), followed by Ayden-Grifton taking on D.H. Conley at 3 p.m. with Wilmington Hoggard and Grace Christian wrapping up the action at 5:30 p.m.

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