Eight-run second paves way to victory for HP (Argila) club

Logan Spivey pitched the first three innings for
Home Plate allowing no hits. 

PEACHTREE CITY-An eight-run second inning supported the pitching of Logan and Quinlan WIley Wednesday and paved the way for the Home Plate Chili Dogs (Argila) to defeat the Bullpen Redstitch 9-2 in an 18U tournament game.
The Chili Dogs will play again on Thursday at their PTC complex at 10:15 against the Academic Patriots Lovejoy as part of the 18U Southeast Elite Championship Tournament.
After a scoreless first inning, the Chili Dogs were able to take advantage of a pair of errors and walks in the top of the second.
Kile Greenwald (Whitewater) started the frame by reaching on an infield error, Wildcat teammate Connor Faulkner followed with a walk and Daniel Courtney (Starr's Mill) loaded the bases with a bunt single.
Austin Hendricks (Upson-Lee) put the Chili Dogs on the board when he lined a two run single to right center field and Wiley (East Coweta) singled to reload the bases.
A walk to Jake Willis (Upson-Lee) brought Courtney plateward and with one out, the Chili Dogs pulled a triple steal as Faulkner scored with Wiley taking third and Willis stealing second.
Jett Lovett (Newnan) hit a sacrifice fly to left field that scored Wiley from third.

An error allowed Garrett Carter (Ola) to reach base while Sean White (Starr's Mill) had a run scoring single and Greenwald closed out the scoring for the Chili Dogs with a two-run double.
Greewald's double also caused the Redstitch to make a pitching change as Andrew Smith (Union Grove) retired Faulkner to end the frame.

Quinlan Wiley was 1-for-3 at the plate and tossed three innings
on the mound. He recorded five strikeouts and caught a line drive
during that stint.

Smith proved to be effective for the Redstitch as he allowed baserunners to open the third and fourth innings but was able to induce a pair of popups and record three strikeouts to keep his team in the game.
Smith ran into trouble in the top of the fifth inning as he allowed consecutive singles to Greenwald and Faulkner, but a pair of strikeouts and groundout would keep the Chili Dogs from scoring.
In the top of the sixth inning, the Chili Dogs were able to score off of Smith as Dekel Williams (East Coweta) and Lovett had consecutive singles with Williams scoring as White grounded out to second.
Benefiting from the early support was starter Logan Spivey (Upson-Lee) who held the Redstitch hitless despite allowing three walks in three innings.
Wiley took over on the mound in the bottom of the fourth inning and despite allowing a pair of hits and runs in the frame, would pitch effectively for three frames as he recorded five strikeouts and recorded a putout in which a ball was lined back to him.