Last week, the Flier baseball team dropped two of three games, including a 5-0 defeat at Bellevue Saturday in the opening round of the OHSAA tournament.
Cody Snyder tossed a complete game five-hitter to thwart the Flier offense. He also contributed two base hits along with Bryce Ray. Nate Gittinger had two hits for Clyde.
Bellevue opened the game with a run in the first inning. The Redmen added three in the fourth to give Snyder all the breathing room he needed to cruise to his gem.
Two double plays turned by the Red stymied the Flier chances. Clyde junior hurler John Jackson took the loss, giving up four runs in 4-1/3 innings. The loss dropped the Fliers to 8-9 for the season.
Earlier in the week, after rainouts, the Fliers lost, 2-1, to Sandusky and escaped a furious Port Clinton rally in the bottom of the seventh to hold on for a 5-4 triumph.
The Fliers answered Sandusky’s two runs in the fourth with one of their own in the bottom of the frame. But, despite stellar pitching by junior Tanner Davenport, the blue and gold could muster only four hits in the tough defeat.
In the Port Clinton game, the Fliers, behind junior Matt Baker, scored two runs each in the fourth and fifth innings plus a tally in the top of the seventh. Then, a mysterious bout of pitching wildness and two errors nearly cost the blue and gold the game.
A hit batter, three walks, two errors and one single left the Redskins down 5-4 with the bases loaded and two outs. The next batter lined a shot to center, where Frank Sewell was in its path.
The Fliers had eleven hits but three near-fatal errors. Nate Gittinger and Matt Baker each had two singles, Rob Webb and Jarod Colvin each had a double and Tanner Davenport had two runs batted in.
