Indians ease past Panthers in first Region game

East Coweta 15 Langston Hughes 0

SHARPSBURG-The East Coweta came out firing Tuesday night at home as they needed all of four innings to defeat the Langston Hughes Panthers 15-0 in the beginning of their three-game Region 3-AAAAAA series.

The second game of the series will be played Thursday niight in Fairburn with the two teams closing the series Friday night in Sharpsburg.

The Indians (10-0, 1-0) took the lead in the bottom of the first inning as Bryce Gemmel reached on a one out walk and advanced to second on a wild pitch before Cole Antmann singled and Jon Banks was hit by a pitch to load the bases.

Brenten Cornell appeared to get of trouble for the Panthers ahe retireed geremy Walton on strikes but a two-run singles by Matthew Meyer and an error in the outfield allowed three runs to come home.

A pair of runs were scored in the bottom of the second by EC as Tim Manning reached on a single who advanced to third on a throwing error that also allowed Cameron Smith to reach first.

After Gemmel reached on a walk and Antmann was retired on a flyball, Banks hit a sacrifice fly to center field and Smith came home on a wild pitch to give the home team a 5-0 lead.

The Indians put the game out of control in the bottom of the third inning with six runs and the lead was 11-0 as Gemmel, Antmann, Meyer and Manning had RBIs in the frame.

In the bottom of the fourth inning, the Indians were able to finish the game on the 15-run mercy rule as they scored three runs as Gemmel and Antmann singled and Banks while Banls and Walton followed with walks.

Blake Lorow and Travis Williams followed with sacrifice flies to end the game.

The beneficiary of the run supposrt was Zach McCurry who pitched three innings allowing two singles in the top of the first innings and recording six strikeouts while Brandon Ruston tossed the final inning allowing only a pair of walks.