Fast start lifts Blue Springs South baseball past Wildcats

Blue Springs South's Austin Holland makes contact with a pitch during Friday's game against Blue Springs. Holland
had a three-run homer and an RBI double in a 12-5 win.

The Blue Springs South baseball team exacted a little bit of revenge against cross-town rival Blue Springs Friday afternoon, earning a 12-5 win and improving to 17-5 on the season.

The Jaguars jumped out to a 7-0 lead after two innings.

“We hit the ball well,” South head coach Ben Baier said. “I told the hitters, ‘welcome back. It’s nice to see you again.’ Their pitcher threw a lot of off speed stuff and we stayed back on the ball and had some good swings.”

South scored four runs in the first thanks in part to RBI doubles from Colton Pogue and Austin Holland.

Holland struck again in the second with a three-run homer.

“He’s been hurt. Today was only his fourth game,” Baier said of Holland. “He’s a guy we’ve been wanting to see all year.”

Blue Springs had been getting good outings from its starting pitchers as of late, but Friday was a struggle for starter Jay Corwin.

“It was a tough first two innings. It’s hard to come back against a good ball club like them,” Wildcats head coach Marc Hines said. “They hit the ball well, and when they hit it, they hit it hard.”

The Wildcats did leave some runners on base throughout the game, including leaving the bases loaded twice.

But each time they were able to score some runs in an inning, South always came back with runs of its own.

“As the game went on we had runners in scoring position but couldn’t get the big hit,” Hines said. “At one point in the game we had five strikeouts looking, and we can’t do that.”

The Wildcats dropped to 12-8 on the year and 6-3 in conference, now tied with Liberty for first. South is one game back.