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Blue Devils’ Mosley shuts down Knights

By Randy Lefko
Posted 3/20/19

JACKSONVILLE – The Clay High Blue Devils’ baseball team got a sterling pitching effort from Justin Mosley to down Oakleaf 6-1 in downtown Jacksonville at the Jacksonville Baseball Grounds on …

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Blue Devils’ Mosley shuts down Knights


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JACKSONVILLE – The Clay High Blue Devils’ baseball team got a sterling pitching effort from Justin Mosley to down Oakleaf 6-1 in downtown Jacksonville at the Jacksonville Baseball Grounds on Wed., March 13.

Mosley finished seven innings with eight strikeouts for the Blue Devils who utilized three hits from Garrett Chun and two apiece from Colin Gross and Nick Barrie to win in the festive atmosphere.

Singles from Barrie and Chun opened the game against Knights’ starter Logan Schmidt, but both batters stayed on the infield.

Both teams went three up, three donw until the third inning when Clay scored off an RBI single from Chase Holman pushed Barrie across home plate. Barrie outran a grounder to first base in his at bat.

Up 1-0 as the fourth inning started, Clay added a run with Faulkner singling in Gross off singles into centerfield from Gross and Nate Lewis.

Holman added another run with an RBI pushing Chun in who reached on an error.

Oakleaf would score their lone run in the fifth with a passed ball letting Kobe Branch in on a strikeout to Dan Hickson.

Schmidt hit Gross to put Clay on base who moved to third on errors before Lewis hit a sacrifice fly to put the game at 4-1.

Singles from Barrie and Chun got the game to 5-1 in seventh with Chun eventually scoring run six off a balk.