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Holbrook’s baseball team opened East Region play on Tuesday afternoon when Show Low came to the Roadrunner diamond. The Birds have struggled early in the season dropping their first four games to open the season and things didn’t improve much on a nice afternoon in Holbrook.
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Neither team scored in the first frame and Show Low posted a pair of runs in the second taking the early lead. The Cougars added three more in the third, and another three in the top of the fourth holding an 8-0 lead before the Roadrunners scored once in the home half of the fourth.
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Show Low matched that run with a single run in the top of the fifth, moving their lead to 9-1. Both teams scored twice in the sixth, then Show Low tacked on their final two runs of the game in the top of the seventh winning the game 13-3.
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Holbrook finished the game with five hits. Two of those came from the bat of Brady Buckley who went two for three and scored two runs. John O’Brien was one for two, as was Dustin Philpott. Fernando Luna went one for three with two RBI.
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Holbrook drew five walks from the Cougars pitching and they finished with three stolen bases. Buckley stole a pair and Andres Aguilera had one stolen base.
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Holbrook finished with nine errors in the contest, which really limited their chances.
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The Roadrunners used three pitchers in the game. O’Brien worked 3.1 innings giving up six runs, only two earned on six hits with four strikeouts and walked just one Cougar batter. Gabriel Baker pitched 2.2 innings allowing five runs, 3 earned on three hits with four strikeouts and walked five. Freshmen Alex Reid pitched 1.1 innings giving up a pair of runs on three hits with one strikeout and walked three.
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With the loss Holbrook drops to 0-5 on the campaign. After playing against Alchesay at home on Tuesday, March 12, the team will have a week off for spring break.
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