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Jefferson moves to 5-0 in early season games

By Bob Madison - For the Chronicle | Apr 1, 2022

SHENANDOAH JUNCTION — Daquon Shipe blanked Highland Academy on two hits over 6.1 innings when Jefferson opened its baseball season. Shipe struck out four and walked four as the Cougars made the most of the four hits they managed off Highland Academy pitching.

Peyton Corwine, Ryan Hefner, Griffin Horowicz and Connor Bailey had Jefferson’s hits. A three-run second inning gave Shipe some runs to work with in the 2022 season opener.

Sammy Roberts (five innings, one run, no hits and six strikeouts) and Horowicz (three innings, three hits, no runs and two strikeouts) combined to silence Martinsburg’s lineup in the next game, a 2-1 win in eight innings over the Bulldogs.

Bailey, Corwine, Sam Wabnitz, Noah Carter and Riley Morgan each had one of Jefferson’s five hits.

In an away game in Romney against Sectional rival Hampshire, the Cougars had a 3-0 lead when they scored seven runs in the fourth inning enroute to a 12-0 mercy-rule win over the Trojans. The game went five innings.

Shipe posted his second pitching win with a one-hit effort in his four innings of work. Bailey and Carter each had two hits with Horowicz and Wabnitz both driving in two runs.

In a doubleheader last Saturday in Shenandoah Junction, the Cougars swept the twinbill against Moorefield, winning by scores of 8-3 and 14-1 in a mercy-rule nightcap.

Morgan pitched four innings in the opener where the Cougars scored six times in the fifth inning.

Morgan allowed four hits, walked three and struck out seven. Horowicz pitched the last two innings.

Wabnitz and Horowicz both drove in two runs. Corwine scored twice while Austin Young, Roberts and Carter all had one hit.

In the rule-shortened second game, Jefferson had already scored 11 runs through only three innings.

Roberts drove in four runs and went 2-for-2. Corwine was 2-for-3 while driving in two runs and scoring three times. Morgan, Shipe and A.J. Spears had Jefferson’s other hits in the sweep of the Yellowjackets.

Dylan Mabe (three innings, three hits, two strikeouts and no runs) and Jarrett Day (two innings, one hit, four strikeouts and one run) were Jefferson’s two pitchers in that game.

After five games, Jefferson’s pitchers had allowed only five total runs and never more than three in any game.

Jefferson’s immediate schedule has it playing Grace Academy tonight at 6 p.m. in Shenandoah Junction, facing Southern (Maryland) from Garrett County tomorrow at Sager Field at 1 p.m., traveling to Berkeley County to play Spring Mills at 7 p.m. on Monday and seeing Hampshire again next Friday at Sager Field at 6 p.m.