EC scores six in the sixth without a hit, Frady has another dominate outing

The East Coweta Indians took advantage of a sixth inning implosion by the Columbus Blue Devils with all six of their runs in the game to come away with a 6-0 victory in a non-region game played Wednesday in Sharpsburg.
By virtue of the win, the Indians are now 10-2 and will host the LaGrange Grangers in another non-region matchup scheduled for 5:30 in Sharpsburg.
Benefitting from the win was Mason Frady who followed his dominating performance against Alexander last week with an outing almost as good with a three-hitter and 10 strikeouts against the perennial state power.
Frady, who struck out 16 batters last week, started Wednesday game in strong shape with a pair of groundouts and a strikeout in the first and breezed through the second with three balls hit to center fielder Zack Bruce.
Frady surrendered a single to Jonathan Brand with one out in the top of the fourth, but a double play took him out and ended the frame.
The senior hurler showed what he was made of in the top of the sixth inning as he faced two runners in scoring position after a double and an infield error with nobody out.
A ball was hit to Devonte Brown at shortstop and the senior showed he still had some football skills left from the recent gridiron season as he beat the baserunner to the plate and a toss to Ryan Dyal behind the plate resulted in a tag and an out.
Still faced with runners in scoring position, Frady came back to retire the next two batters on swinging strikeouts and kept the game scoreless.
The bottom of the inning started innocently as Emilio Morales grounded out and Coleman Wood and Nate Gick reached on consecutive walks.
The problems for Columbus began with Cameron Jackson at the plate, a wild pitch moved pinch-runner Trevor Crowdis and Gick moved a base and Jackson eventually loaded the bases when he was hit by a pitch.
The Blue Devils appeared to keep the game scoreless as Zack Bruce was retired on an infield fly, but the implosion occurred as Devonte Brown came to the plate.
Another wild pitch came and Crowdis slid home with the winning run and Brown followed by reaching on an error that allowed Gick and Jackson to score and give EC a 3-0 lead.
Trevor Gaddy reached on a walk and was able to move to second on a throwing error that allowed Brown to score and Ryan Dyal followed by reaching on a walk.
Ethan Darrow reached on a walk in which ball four resulted in another wild pitch that allowed Gaddy to score.
The final run of the evening occurred in an unusual fashion as Darrow tried to second but managed to get caught in a rundown.
Brandon Frost, the courtesy runner for Dyal was able to score for the final run before Darrow was retired on a scoring play that several throws before the tag was applied that ended the inning.
In the top of the seventh Frady took care of business with a strikeout and induced a pop to Darrow at second before surrendering a single and ended the game with a swinging strikeout.

THE NEXT GAME: The Grangers will come into Thursday's contest with a 7-5 record after defeating the Newnan Cougars 6-3 at Joe Pope Field.
They broke a 3-3 tie in the top of the sixth inning with a pair of runs and added one more in the top of the seventh.