RUHS Baseball Splits
First 2 of Season
By David Maxfield

The Randolph boy’s baseball team had their first two games of the season. With some fields in the state still not being playable because of the late winter they had to travel for their first two games. Traveling to a relocated field in Cambridge the boys took on Lamoille on Sat. April 20 and went to Harwood on the 27th.

Win at Lamoille

With the first game of the season the boys had a lot to accomplish and they did that right off the bat with their first four guys in the line up scoring, giving the Ghosts a quick 4-zip lead. Despite some bad breaks, the team held the lead by one and never looked back.

The Ghosts added four more runs over the next six innings, giving them their first win of the season. Randolph was led by a dominant pitching performance by Jon White who had seven strike-outs and did not surrender a walk. Helping him out offensively were Kyle Connolly with a home run, Nik Bent, David Maxfield, Thomas Jacobs and Damon Dyer who all recoded hits in the winning effort.

Loss at Harwood

With one down and the bases loaded, the Ghost surrendered a suicide squeeze to drop their record to 1-1 in the early stages of the season. The Ghost started off the day with quick bats and put two on the board with a lead off single by Maxfield and an RBI single by Jacobs. The Harwood team over-matched the Ghosts’ efforts with three runs in the bottom of the frame.

A rally by the Ghosts saw them answering with three more runs of their own, with a two-out, two-RBI double by Jacobs to put the Ghosts ahead. That lead only lasted until the bottom of the inning, when the Harwood Highlanders tied the game at five. That tie would stay until the fourth when the Harwood team pulled ahead by two.

The Ghosts rallied back with an RBI single by Bent in the 5^th and a game-tying home run by Maxfield in the 6^th. The ghosts scored the go ahead run in the top of the 7^th with another RBI single by Bent. But the Harwood boys had enough juice left to squeeze out two more runs in the bottom of the 7^th to pull away with the win.

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