LAKE WALES, Fla. – Royals pick up their 9
th win in the season,
Jaryd Clary throws 2 hit gem against Pioneers.
Junior Fermin fires extra inning walk off base hit up the middle to beat Edward Waters.
GAME 1: Royals 1, Pioneers 0
In what turned out to be a pitching duel, the Royals came out on top 1-0.
Jaryd Clary got the start on the mound for the Royals and earned his 4
th win of the young season. Clary threw 7 innings only surrendering 2 hits and walking 1 while striking out 2. On the other side of the ball for the Pioneers, Nicholas Beardsley threw 6 inning holding the Royals to 3 hits but surrendering 1 run. The game was cruising along at 0-0 in the bottom of the 3
rd inning, when
Cole Parks shot a double into right center field to lead off the inning. With 1 out, Parks swiped a bag moving over to 3
rd.
Junior Fermin stepped in and hit the eventual game winning ground ball to short top that scored Parks.
Jaryd Clary picked up his 4
th win moving him to 4-1 on the year.
Cole Parks stole his 14
th bag of the year and is hitting just shy of .400 on the season. The Royals moved to 8-4 on the year with the win.
GAME 2: Royals 6, Tigers 5 -Extra Innings
The Royals offense opened up and used 11 hits to earn their 9
th season victory and they did so in walk off fashion.
Tad Stockowski got things started in the bottom of the 2
nd inning with a base hit into left that scored
Rafael Astacio.
Mick Tinny followed up with another base hit to left scoring
Xanders Vazquez. Then
Cole Parks reached on a fielding error by the Pioneers that scored Stockowski. The Royals were leading 3-0 heading into the top of the 4
th where the Tigers put up 3 runs of their own and tied it up 3-3. The Royals broke the tie in the bottom of the 5
th with a
Derek Deler single that scored Rio Russel. The Tigers then took the lead in the top of the 7
th scoring 2 more runs, 5-4. Faced with defeat, the Royals pushed the game tying run across in the bottom of the 7
th when a Deler fielder's choice scored Parks. The game went into extra innings until the bottom of the 9
th when Astacio doubled deep to left center. Vazquez was hit by a pitch to give the Royals runners on 1
st and 2
nd.
Junior Fermin stepped in and fired a shot back up the middle that scored Astacio and completed the walk off win for the Royals!