GAME VS SPRING VALLEY

Silverado's American Legion junior team had its first game on Friday against Spring Valley. The game started off as a pitcher's duel with Kyle Graves starting the game on the mound for the Hawks. After 2 innings of no offense for either team Silverado got a rally going in the 3rd with the help of the Spring Valley starting pitcher. After a fly out to centerfield Kyle Graves worked the count for an eventual walk. After another strike out Wyatt Reid lined a ball to the shortstop who miss played it and let the inning continue. After that the pitcher gave up a four pitch walk to Jack Lavine to load the bases Mike Myers lined a ball into the right centerfield for a triple to put up the Hawks first three runs of the season. After a wild pitch to bring Myers in from third the pitcher walked the AJ Ford and then struck out Dylan Ortwein to end the the inning. After another 2 solid innings by Kyle Graves to hold the lead at four. In the top of the fifth Wyatt Reid walked and stole second and was then drove in on a double by Myers to give himself his fourth RBI of the game and give the Hawks a five run lead. Jimmy Muto came in to replace Graves on the mound to start the fifth. After walking the first batter of the inning Jimmy Muto gave up an unearned run after Myers threw the ball away on a routine ground ball to the shortstop allowing the man on third to cross the plate and putting the score at five to one. In the top of the the sixth the Hawks would put up 2 more runs on a double from Wyatt Reid. After another solid inning from Muto on the mound in the bottom of the sixth the Hawks came up with Myers getting a single as well as his third hit of the game. After a Myers stolen base and a ground out by Ford the Hawks had three straight doubles and a single pushed across four more runs to put the score at eleven to one. In the bottom of the seventh Dylan Ortwein came into relieve Muto and shut down the game by retiring three straight batters with two strikeouts.

The game was a good start for the Hawks. Offensively the boys used the extra opportunities that Spring Valley gave them through errors and walks through out the game to put themselves in good scoring chances. Defensively the game could have been played a little cleaner but it was a good game for the amount of young players that participated in the game and considering it was the first game of the season. The most important part of the game was by far and away all three pitchers dominating from the mound the entire game by not allowing any earned runs. The next game will be against the Shadow Ridge Mustangs at Shadow Ridge HS on June 5th at 5 o'clock.