Red-Hot Drury Pitchers Post Another Win
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. – Brayden Canales and Noah Arnold continued a dominant stretch for the Drury High School baseball team’s pitching staff on Saturday.
The pair combined to no-hit Lee in an 11-1, six-inning win at Joe Wolfe Field.
Arnold struck out seven and walked just two in three innings of work to pick up the win.
With the victory, Drury (3-0) has allowed just two earned runs in 19 innings, a team earned run average of .737.
Saturday’s run came early.
Lee’s Ben Kelly worked a walk to lead off the game and eventually scored on a ball to the backstop to give the Wildcats at 1-0 lead.
But Canales and Arnold allowed just one baserunner past first base the rest of the day.
Meanwhile, it took Drury a trip through the lineup to solve Lee starter Jack Bianco, who stranded four runners and allowed just two hits through the first three innings.
In the fourth, the Blue Devils pounded out seven hits and capitalized on three Lee errors to score eight times.
Hunter Marceau got things started when he doubled and came all the way around to score after a Lee throwing error sent the ball through the infield and into the spacious foul territory at Joe Wolfe.
Logan Crocwell and Julian Feliciano then followed up with two more doubles to give Drury three in a row and a 2-1 lead.
Arnold, J.J. Prenguber and Steven Cornell then singled to give Drury six straight hits to open the inning. Nick Sacco later made it seven with an RBI single.
In the fifth, Drury scored twice off Lee reliever Brian Coty. Prenguber (2-for-3) doubled and scored, Hinkell (2-for-2) drove in a run and Nick Lescarbeau hit an RBI triple to make it 10-1.
Drury ended the game by reaching a 10-run margin with two out in the bottom of the sixth.
Colby Malloy drew a leadoff walk and was erased on a groundout by Crockwell. Crockwell then stole his fourth and fifth bases of the game to get to third. He came home three batters later on a wild pitch to end it.
Drury hosts McCann Tech on Tuesday.
Lee (0-2) hosts Hoosac Valley on Tuesday.