GALION — With how the evening started, the Plymouth Big Red felt like they would have plenty of scoring chances.
With runners on second and third with one out in the bottom of the first inning, the Big Red stranded the two runners on base, but felt like it wasn’t going to be the last scoring opportunity of the game.
Unfortunately, it was as the Big Red suffered a 1-0 Division VII district semifinal loss to Mohawk on Thursday, May 28 at Galion’s Heise Park.
“It fell off from there,” Plymouth coach Adam Beverly said. “It’s unfortunate that we couldn’t string the hits together, but that is baseball. We made some great plays behind Evan after having a terrible practice yesterday where we dropped fly balls and let easy ground balls go through our legs. We played a great defensive game and I am proud of them for that.”
The Big Red stood tall behind freshman pitcher Evan King, who took a no-hitter into the top of the sixth inning before Mohawk scraped two hits together to score the game’s only run. King finished with allowing one run on three hits with five strikeouts and the Big Red had one error behind him.
Beverly opted to go with King over staff ace Lincoln Distl for a few reasons and none bigger than the confidence he had that King could pitch well enough to win, which he did.
“Evan is a freshman and we put him in a big spot in a big game and he more than did the job,” Beverly said. “We saw him pitch a huge game against South Central in the regular season, so we had a lot of confidence in him. We also felt we have a better defense when he is on the mound and knowing how well Mohawk hits the ball, we wanted to make plays on defense and everything worked out how it was supposed to. We just didn’t score.”
Jarrett Burrer led the Big Red with two hits while Distl and King had one apiece. Burrer and Lex Grose played their final game for the Big Red as the only two seniors on the roster.
“Those two seniors are two of the most talented baseball players we have had come through Plymouth in a long time,” Beverly said. “Lex and Jarrett are guys who lived baseball since they were old enough to join t-ball. I love those guys like they are my own. It’s terrible to see them go down like this.”
Plymouth ended the season 15-10.
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This article originally appeared on Mansfield News Journal: Plymouth Big Red loses to Mohawk Warriors in district semifinal
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