Baseball Round-up: Broad Run, County, Potomac Falls Open Dulles District with Wins

Tuesday, April 6
Broad Run 4, Dominion 0
The Skinny: The Spartans improved to 5-0 (1-0 in the Dulles District) on the season with 4-0 win over Dominion High School in Ashburn. Senior Shane Vlasic improved his pitching record to 3-0 on the season with his third complete game win of the year on the mound. Vlasic struck out 8 batters, walked one, and allowed 2 hits on the night. Offensively, freshman designated hitter AJ Powell had 2 doubles and 2 RBI, junior Nick Richardson had two hits, and junior Zach Rawson drove in two runs on the night. The Spartans are back in action in non-conference play against Herndon High School on Wednesday night at Broad Run at 6 pm.

Madison 6, Stone Bridge 3
Potomac Falls 13, Briar Woods 1 (5)
The Skinny: The Panthers opened defense of their Dulles District title with a big win in Ashburn Tuesday with Taylor Jernigan throwing 2-hit ball for four innings and Steven Fisher finishing the 5th inning. After a 2 week layoff due to Spring Break, the Panther bats did not waste any time as they scored 4 runs in the 1st inning. Thomas Rea led off with a triple off the rightfield fence and Ryan Mahoney followed with a double down the leftfield line. Ryan Miller followed with a walk before Sam Bass hit a line drive to right to score Mahoney. Miller then scored on a groundout by Michael Lascomb and Bass scored on a double to righfield by Tyler Caldwell.

The Panthers added 4 more runs in the 2nd inning when Rea led off with his second triple of the night, this one off of the fence in left center. Mahoney followed with an RBI single up the middle. Bass followed with a drive to centerfield that was mishandled allowing Mahoney to score. Lascomb then hit a single up the middle to score Bass and Caldwell followed with his second double to leftfield to score Bass and give Potomac Falls an 8–0 lead.

In the 3rd, Ben Sweger started the inning with an infield single. He was moved to 2nd on Rea’s third hit of the game, a single down 3rd base. Mahoney then hit a fielders choice to score Sweger. After a walk to Miller , Bass followed with a single to right. Mahoney and Miller then scored on a single by Lascomb to give the Panthers an 11–0 lead.

Spotted to an 11 run lead, Jernigan settled into a nice rhythm mixing fastballs and off speed pitches to keep the Falcons off balance. Through 3 innings, he gave up only one hit and had faced 12 batters. The Falcons got to him in the 4th scoring their lone run on a lead-off walk to Logan Harris. He was advanced to second on a single to left by David Phillips and scored on an infield error.

Potomac Falls tacked on 2 more runs in the 5th on an RBI single by Steven Fisher and a wild pitch by Matt Irish. Fisher then came on to pitch the 5th for the Panthers and retired the Falcons to end the game after 5 innings.

The Panthers have a non-District game against Loudoun Valley on Thursday followed by Broad Run on Friday.

Highlights: Thomas Rea (3-3, 2 triples), Ryan Mahoney (2-3, 3 RBI’s), Sam Bass (2-3), Michael Lascomb (2-3, 3 RBI’s), Tyler Caldwell (2-3, 2 RBI’s) and Taylor Jernigan (4 innings, 2 hits, 0 earned runs)

Loudoun County 13, Freedom 4
The Skinny: The Raiders have not reported on this game ...

For the Eagles: Starting pitcher Brad Baker lasted 3.1 innings, surrendering 5 earned runs. Freedom's offense was paced by junior Luke McDonnell who went 2-2 with 2 rbi's and a run scored. Sophomore Joey Plesce also added two hits.

Herndon 10, Park View 0 (6)