Coaches Name 3 All-State - Greeneville Sun Tearsheet System
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Coaches Name 3 All-State - Greeneville Sun Tearsheet System
Game Tonight! Sports SPORTS EDITOR: [email protected] vs Royals - 6 pm Christmas In July by GreenevilleSun.com benefiting Gifts for Kids Pet Friendly Weekend by MARS Petcare Winter Coat Drive THE GREENEVILLE SUN SATURDAY, JULY 25, 2015 B-1 Knights’ Beddingfield To Play Baseball At Hiwassee BY DARREN REESE SUN SPORTS EDITOR Beddingfield headed to Hiwassee College The Chuckey-Doak High School baseball team enjoyed one of its most successful seasons in recent memory in 2015. The Black Knights went 8-2 in District 2-AA competition to finish tied atop the regular season standings. Senior pitcher Daniel Beddingfield played a big part in that, and now he will get the opportunity to compete at the next level. Beddingfield held a signing ceremony at the high school Friday morning to announce that he would be continuing his athletic and academic career at Hiwassee College this fall. “This feels good,” Beddingfield said. “I’ve waited to play at the college level since I was little, whether it was football, basketball or baseball – I’ve just always had that dream.” “It was great to have the opportunity to go down there and try out, and when they told me ‘We’ll offer you a scholarship’, that just made my day, Recent ChuckeyDoak High School graduate Daniel Beddingfield signed Friday to continue his baseball and academic career at Hiwassee College. He is pictured seated with parents Tim Beddingfield and Susan Beddingfield. In back are: CDHS coach Jason Rush, Hiwassee coaches Bryan Woodlief and Shane Gardner, brother Eli Beddingfield, sister Grace Beddingfield and grandmother Vivian Peake. PLEASE SEE BEDDINGFIELD | B-4 Coaches Name 3 All-State Hall, Casteel And Barkley Earn Top Baseball Honors For 2015 SUN PHOTOS BY TATE RUSSELL Pictured from left to right: North Greene’s Troy Hall, South Greene’s Justin Casteel and Chuckey-Doak’s Tanner Barkley recently received All-State honors from the Tennessee Baseball Coaches Association for 2015. BY DARREN REESE SUN SPORTS EDITOR The Greene County prep baseball scene featured a lot of quality pitching in 2015 and that was reflected last month when the Tennessee Baseball Coaches Association released its All-State teams. Three local athletes received All-State honors – North Greene senior Troy Hall, Chuckey-Doak junior Tanner Barkley and South Greene junior Justin Casteel. Hall, who is headed to Mars Hill College, was a perfect 90 on the mound with a 1.44 earned run average. He worked 53.3 innings and struck out 85. Hall was also one of North Greene’s top hitters at the plate as he went for a .402 average with 35 hits, 13 walks, 31 runs scored, 28 RBI and seven stolen bases. Hall helped the Huskies to their fourth straight Region 1-A championship and a state sectional berth. Also last month he was named All-State by the Tennessee Sports Writers Association for the second consecutive year. Barkley led Chuckey-Doak both on the mound and at the plate as the Black Knights shared the District 2-AA regular season title. He had a 2.87 earned run average with six wins and six complete games in 14 appearances. He struck out 117 and walked 27 in 70.2 innings of work. Opponents batted just .188 off of him. At the plate he hit .418 with 38 hits, 32 RBI and 22 runs scored. He added eight doubles, five triples and six home runs. Like Hall and Barkley, Casteel was a leader for South Greene both offensively and on the rubber. For the year he was 9-4 with a 1.71 earned run aver- age. Opponents hit just .190 off of the junior. He struck out 139 in 78 innings, including a game in which he recorded 18 strikeouts. Casteel batted .358 with six doubles, a triple and a home run. He walked 11 times and stole eight bases. He led South Greene to a runner-up finish in Region 1-A and then had a solid pitching effort in the Rebels’ 4-0 loss to eventual state champion Grace Christian in the sectional round. ball Report website recently announced its year-end prep awards for 2015 and several local athletes received recognition. Zane Potter of North Greene was named to the Super Freshman/ Sophomore Pitchers Team after going 3-0 with a 0.63 earned run average. He struck out 44 in 33.1 innings pitched. Potter, along with Greeneville’s Cody Hartness were named to the Super Freshman/ TENNESSEE BASEBALL REPORT ANNOUNCES YEAR-END AWARDS The Tennessee Base- PLEASE SEE BASEBALL | B-4 Astros Rally From Large Deficit But Fall In 11 BY TATE RUSSELL SUN SPORTS EDITOR The Burlington Royals built a big lead with a fast start and then relied on some explosive hitting late to take an extra-inning win from the Greeneville Astros in their series opener on Friday. Burlington jumped in front 5-0 after one frame before the Astros came back to force extra innings. A two-run blast in the 11th inning by Brandon Dulin then capped a 15-hit night for Royals in their 9-7 win at Pioneer Park. In the top of the 11th, the Royals designated hitter sent a no-doubt shot over the right field wall to score two runs and erased the Astros’ comeback from five down. The Royals came out of the gate swinging on Friday night and Greeneville’s defense could not catch up in the first inning. Starting pitcher Alberto Abreu retired the first two batters in order but a close call on a 2-2 count seemed to rattle him which led to a walk fol- lowed by a powerful double from Dulin. The deep swat into the corner scored Austin Bailey and propelled the Royals to a 5-run inning. Dulin finished 3-for-6 with three RBIs. Ben Johnson followed with a line-drive single past second baseman Ford Stainback that scored Dulin. Johnson advanced to second on an errant throw to the plate. Angello Castellano came to plate next and sent a ground ball to third that was booted to allow Johnson to score from second. Xavier Fernandez made it 5-0 when he sent a double into left to score runners from first and second. It also ended Abreu’s day. Greeneville put a dent in the deficit in their half of the first inning. Osvaldo Duarte led off the side with a walk and Stainback followed by reaching on an error. Connor Goedert put the Astros’ first run on the board with an RBI single to shallow center field. Brauly Mejia drove in Stainback on another line drive to center. Lachlan Medlen took over on the mound for Greeneville three strike outs. After falling behind 6-3, Greeneville fought their way back into the game with a three-run seventh inning. Luis Payono got the explosive side started with a double that bounced off the top of the wall in left-center. A walk and hit batter loaded the bases for Randy Cesar who hit a ground ball to the first baseman. Catcher Xavier Fernandez could not handle the throw to SUN PHOTO BY TATE RUSSELL Lachlan Madden pitches for the the plate, allowing Greeneville Astros on Friday at Pioneer Payano to score. Connor Goedert Park against the Burlington Royals. followed with a sacrifice fly, his third RBI of the day. Justin to finish the first inning and Garcia continued the scoring regained control for the Astros. with an RBI to left field that He threw 2 1/3 innings with scored Ford Stainback and three strike outs and one hit made it 6-6. allowed. In the eighth inning, Osvaldo Jake Kalish took the win for Duarte found the perfect spot Burlington. He threw the final and ripped a triple down the four innings, allowing three right field line that scooted into hits, with three walks and the corner. The ball stalled on the wall and gave Luis Payano a chance to score from first for the go-ahead run, giving the home team a 7-6 lead going into the ninth inning. Greeneville looked like a huge defensive inning was going to carry them to victory in the top of the ninth, but a pitching blunder kept Burlington alive. With runners on first and second with no outs ,Dulin hit a shot up the middle but Duarte made a great break on it to start a 6-4-3 double play. With a runner on third Greeneville just needed to retire Johnson, who came to the plate next. But before that could happen, Salvador Montano let a wild pitch get away to allow Jose Martinez to score from third. Greeneville had a chance to take the game in the bottom of the ninth but could not put a runner in scoring position. Greeneville could not do anything in extra innings either to regain control. The Astros and Royals are back in action today starting at 6 p.m. at Pioneer Park.
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