The Avery 9-10 year old boys baseball team lost a heartbreaker this evening 7-6 against Wilkes American #2 in Little League District 7 tournament play.Jeffrey Puckett started for the Avery squad and pitched two shutout innings, while the Avery offense lit up the Wilkes starter for five runs in the two inning span. Puckett ran into trouble in the third inning as the Wilkes bats warmed up. Avery head coach Adrian Crowe called on southpaw Gabe Stanley in relief, but the Wilkes squad put up seven runs to take a 7-5 advantage.
Avery rallied in the top of the fifth for a run to cut the lead to one run. After Stanley held Wilkes scoreless in the bottom of the fifth, Avery had one final opportunity to tie or take a lead. A leadoff base hit was erased by a fine Wilkes defensive play when a runner was thrown out at third base for the first out in the frame. Wilkes retired the final two batters to hold on for the one-run win. Avery drops into the consolation bracket and will return to action on Saturday afternoon.
This week the Avery Lady Vikings held basketball camp for elementary and middle school students. The Lady Vikings JV and Varsity basketball players, with instruction from head coach Missy Lyons, have worked together to instruct the future Lady Vikings on various facets of the game of basketball. A full write-up on this week's camp can be found in next week's edition of the Journal-Times.Also found in next week's edition will be a story on the Lady Vikings Cheerleading Camp, with sessions and performances which took place both last week and this week. Matt Laws will have a writeup on Coach Cary Dominguez and her cheerleading team's work with local youngsters.
