Photo by Brian Hoffman.
The Glenvar baseball team will close out the regular season today when they travel to Carroll County for a Three Rivers District game with the Cavaliers. The Three Rivers does not have a post-season tournament, so the Highlanders won’t play again until the Region 2C tournament opens the end of next week. Glenvar is 12-7 overall after mercy ruling James River on the GHS field Monday night, 11-1. The visiting Knights drew first blood with an unearned run in the top of the first but after that Dawson Anderson owned them, pitching two-hit ball to pick up the win.
Glenvar scored in every inning, plating two in the first, two in the second, one in the third and a crooked six in the fourth. Landyn Pickard, Cale Vaughan and Adam Franklin had two hits each for Glenvar and Rhett Henderson had a clutch two run single in the big sixth inning. Last Friday at home the Highlanders finished a suspended game with Alleghany before the regularly scheduled game. It was 3-3 when it was picked up and ended up going extra innings with Glenvar pulling out a 4-3 win.
Vaughan got the win on the mound in relief of Ashton Meadows, who broke a finger on his pitching hand in the meantime and had to be replaced. Glenvar was the visiting team, as this game was started at Alleghany. The Highlanders won when Franklin was hit by a pitch in the top of the eighth, advanced on a passed ball and scored on a blooper off the handle by Peyton Deel. In the regular game the Cougars scored six runs in the top of the first on their way to an 8-2 win.
Glenvar commited four errors in that inning as Vaughan took the loss, splitting time on the mound with Reed Hutchison. After today’s game at Carroll the Highlanders will open the region on May 24th against an opponent to be named, most likely at home. Their 12-7 record is just two years removed from a 3-18 season in the spring of 2022. “I told them we’re five innings away from being 17-2,” said Highlander coach Jeremy Cromer. “If we can avoid that one bad inning we’ve been prone to having we can go to the state tournament.”
