Warriors 14U: Brown leads nearly flawless Warriors to win

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Brown leads nearly flawless Warriors to win

With all the fours he put up Wednesday night, you'd think Jordy Brown would be a Brett Favre fan.

The Warriors' leadoff hitter had four hits, scored four runs, batted in four more and stole four bases in a 15-3 win over the Cedar Hills Hawks. He also allowed only one run in five innings on the mound for the victory. With his performance, Brown extends his hitting streak to 16 games, during which his batting average has climbed from .167 to .448.

This was one of those games that wasn't as close as the score indicates.

The Warriors were up 7-0 before the Hawks scored their first run in the top of the fifth inning. The Warriors responded with an eight-run fifth inning in which all but one player in the lineup scored.

The Hawks added a run in the sixth off Michael Daughtery and another in the seventh off Ryan Niemeyer.

The Warriors outhit the Hawks 12-4 and had just one error to the Hawks six.

The win puts the Warriors at 13-11 on the year with a doubleheader against Cougars Green slated for 4 p.m. Saturday.

Game Notes: Mitch Blades matched his season high with three stolen bases... Jordy Brown has now stolen 40 bases in 22 games... Noah Burdt had a hit, walked, stole a base and scored twice in his third substitute appearance of the year... Michael Daughtery teamed up with Brown for the play of the day, sneaking in from center field to pick off a Hawk base runner at second base... Robert Hogg got a hit in his only official at-bat, but walked twice and was hit by a pitch while also stealing four bases and scoring twice... After catching fire in Vinton and going hitless in Des Moines, Ryan Niemeyer got a hit, an RBI, scored twice and stole two bases while climbing to 125 putouts at first base... Max Versteegh was 2-3 at the plate with a run scored and an RBI while filling in admirably at catcher... Dalton Weems showed nice wheels in chasing down a left field fly and beating out a bunt for an RBI single that started the fifth inning onslaught... Zach Zingula extended his hitting streak to seven games and raised his batting average to a season high .333. He also talked me out of an error for the first time -- and probably the last -- in his playing career.