Tyler Edwards went hitless in his past three games before Wayne County Post 11 went on a nine-day hiatus for exams and graduation. The team returned to action Monday night, and the diminutive shortstop wasted no time in putting his recent woes behind him.
Edwards banged out five hits and drove in three runs as Wayne rallied past Area One East South Division foe Pitt County Post 39 12-7 at Mount Olive College. The teams will meet tonight at Pitt Community College.
Wayne (2-1, 4-3) was almost at full strength with the addition of the Eastern Wayne players. John Wooten missed the game due to sickness and Walker Gourley is still undecided about signing with the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Eastern Wayne's Josh Frederick took the hill for the first time as an American Legion pitcher and overcame a rough second inning to claim his first win with five innings of work. He benefited from a stellar relief performance from Jesse Randolph. Bouncing back from a poor showing against Wilmington, Randolph allowed three runners over the final three innings to pick up the save.
Wayne cranked out 15 hits in all, something that didn't surprise coach Brad Reaves. "We're going to swing it, and if we can get pitching like that we'll be fine," he said. "It's been a while since Frederick had been on the mound. It's been a while since (Taylor) Allen had been on the mound, and I thought Jesse Randolph looked great."
"We have more options that we've ever had. ... We have a lot of people who can do different things."
"I thought (Frederick) was a little too strong to begin with. He had too good a fastball. I've seen him like that in high school where he was too strong to begin with and he was throwing instead of pitching. After the second inning, he started pitching a little bit."
Frederick's troubles came in the second when Pitt lit him up to the tune of four runs to take a 4-1 lead. With a runner on first and two out, Brian Phillips lined a 1-2 fastball to left for a double. A hit batter loaded the bases, again on a 1-2 pitch. Tyler Nichols and Clark Massey followed with two-run doubles. Frederick had Massey 0-2 but couldn't put him away.
He recovered to allow only a solo home run by Preston Mobley over the next three innings.
Wayne quickly rebounded with five runs in the bottom of the inning. Nick McGee fell behind 0-2 and worked the count full before driving in two runs with a hit to center. After Cambric Moye was hit by a pitch, the runnners advanced on a wild pitch. The next two batters were retired on a poput and strikeout, but Colton Fulghum doubled into the left field corner on an 0-2 pitch. Cody Richards' double made it 6-4, and Wayne led for good.
Wayne added two in the fifth as Edwards tripled and McGee singled him home. In the seventh, Wayne drew three walks to set up a two-run single by Edwards and Moy's second RBI single.
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