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Article: CLASS AAA, REGION 4, SECTION 1 baseball: ; Pickering helps Nitro hold off Red Dragons
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- May 15, 2009
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Andrew Pickering's sacrifice fly in the bottom of the eighth
inning gave Nitro a 5-4 win in the Class AAA Region 4, Section 1
baseball championship game on Thursday night.
Pickering hit a fly ball to centerfield that scored fellow junior
J.R. Bradley, capping Nitro's game-long comeback from a 4-0 deficit.
The win puts the defending Class AAA state champions into the Region
4 semifinals on May 25, against the winner of Region 4, Section 2
between Parkersburg South and Ripley.
Nitro scored one run in each at-bat beginning in the fourth
inning. The Red Dragons had jumped out to a four-run lead in the
second.
"That goes against a couple rules of baseball," Nitro Coach Steve
Pritchard said. ...