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The Cheraw (SC) varsity baseball team won Wednesday's home non-conference game against Gray Collegiate Academy (West Columbia, SC) by a score of 5-3.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	R	H	E
GCA	0	0	0	0	1	0	2	3	7	2
Cheraw	0	0	2	1	1	1	-	5	8	2

Recap
Box Score
Matchup Info

Game Stats

Gray Collegiate Academy (24-25)

Cheraw (24-25)

Gray Collegiate Academy

Batting

#	Athlete Name	Avg	PA	AB	R	H	RBI	2B
	Team Totals	.250	32	28	3	7	3	3
1	G. Blankenship	.500	4	4	2	2	0	1
2	MJ Hornsby	.250	4	4	0	1	1	0
4	JP Sweatt	.500	4	4	1	2	1	1
5	Caleb Burgess	.000	2	1	0	0	0	0
9	Zeb Taylor	.333	4	3	0	1	1	1
12	Cole Adams	.000	3	2	0	0	0	0
14	Noah Styron	.000	1	1	0	0	0	0
15	Zak Perry	.333	3	3	0	1	0	0
17	Judson Decell	.000	3	2	0	0	0	0
23	C. Southern	.000	1	1	0	0	0	0

Cheraw

Batting

#	Athlete Name	Avg	PA	AB	R	H	RBI	2B
	Team Totals	.381	29	21	5	8	3	3
1	Jackson Byrd (Sr)	.000	4	2	0	0	0	0
2	Kaden Johnson (Sr)	.667	3	3	0	2	2	1
3	Brayden Michael (Sr)	.500	4	4	2	2	0	0
4	Will Quick (Sr)	.000	3	2	0	0	0	0
5	T. Blackmon (So)	.000	3	2	0	0	0	0
8	Anthony Strong (So)	.000	3	3	0	0	0	0
10	Tyler Tolson (Jr)	1.000	3	2	1	2	1	1
12	Brendan Pace (So)	1.000	3	1	0	1	0	1
19	Demaris Ellerbe (Sr)	.500	3	2	0	1	0	0

Gray Collegiate Academy

#	Athlete Name	BB	K	HBP	ROE	FC	LOB	OBP	SLG	OPS
	Team Totals	3	5	1	1	3	8	.344	.357	.701
1	G. Blankenship	0	0	0	0	0	1	.500	.750	1.250
2	MJ Hornsby	0	1	0	0	0	1	.250	.250	.500
4	JP Sweatt	0	0	0	0	1	2	.500	.750	1.250
5	Caleb Burgess	1	1	0	0	0	2	.500	.000	.500
9	Zeb Taylor	1	0	0	0	0	3	.500	.667	1.167
12	Cole Adams	0	1	1	0	0	1	.333	.000	.333
14	Noah Styron	0	1	0	0	0	0	.000	.000	.000
15	Zak Perry	0	0	0	0	1	2	.333	.333	.666
17	Judson Decell	1	1	0	0	1	2	.333	.000	.333
23	C. Southern	0	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000

Cheraw

#	Athlete Name	SH/B	BB	K	HBP	FC	LOB	OBP	SLG	OPS
	Team Totals	4	3	1	1	2	6	.480	.524	1.004
1	Jackson Byrd (Sr)	2	0	1	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000
2	Kaden Johnson (Sr)	0	0	0	0	1	0	.667	1.000	1.667
3	Brayden Michael (Sr)	0	0	0	0	0	2	.500	.500	1.000
4	Will Quick (Sr)	1	0	0	0	0	1	.000	.000	.000
5	T. Blackmon (So)	0	1	0	0	0	0	.333	.000	.333
8	Anthony Strong (So)	0	0	0	0	0	2	.000	.000	.000
10	Tyler Tolson (Jr)	0	0	0	1	0	0	1.000	1.500	2.500
12	Brendan Pace (So)	0	2	0	0	0	0	1.000	2.000	3.000
19	Demaris Ellerbe (Sr)	1	0	0	0	1	2	.500	.500	1.000

Gray Collegiate Academy

Baserunning

#	Athlete Name	SB	SBA
	Team Totals	1
7	Kaleb Holmes	1

Cheraw

Baserunning

#	Athlete Name	SB
	Team Totals	3
3	Brayden Michael (Sr)	1
9	Kadin Thomas (Jr)	1

Gray Collegiate Academy

Fielding

#	Athlete Name	FP	TC	PO	A	E	DP
	Team Totals	.935	31	18	11	2	1
1	G. Blankenship	1.000	6	4	2	0	1
2	MJ Hornsby	1.000	4	1	3	0	0
4	JP Sweatt	1.000	2	2	0	0	0
5	Caleb Burgess	.667	3	1	1	1	0
12	Cole Adams	1.000	11	10	1	0	1
15	Zak Perry	.750	4	0	3	1	0

Cheraw

Fielding

#	Athlete Name	FP	TC	PO	A	E
	Team Totals	.921	38	21	14	3
1	Jackson Byrd (Sr)	.857	7	2	4	1
2	Kaden Johnson (Sr)	.857	7	1	5	1
4	Will Quick (Sr)	1.000	6	2	4	0
5	T. Blackmon (So)	1.000	1	1	0	0
8	Anthony Strong (So)	1.000	2	1	1	0
12	Brendan Pace (So)	1.000	5	5	0	0
19	Demaris Ellerbe (Sr)	.900	10	9	0	1

Gray Collegiate Academy

Pitching

#	Athlete Name	ERA	L	W%	APP
	Team Totals	4.67	1	.000	1
9	Zeb Taylor	7.00	0		1
15	Zak Perry	4.20	1	.000	1

Cheraw

Pitching

#	Athlete Name	ERA	W	W%	APP	SV
	Team Totals	2.00	1	1.000	1	1
3	Brayden Michael (Sr)	0.00	0		1	1
8	Anthony Strong (So)	2.21	1	1.000	1	0
11	C. Phillips (Sr)	0.00	0		1	0

Gray Collegiate Academy

#	Athlete Name	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	BF	AB
	Team Totals	6	8	5	4	3	1	29	25
9	Zeb Taylor	1	1	1	1	1	0	6	4
15	Zak Perry	5	7	4	3	2	1	23	21

Cheraw

#	Athlete Name	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	BF	AB
	Team Totals	7	6	3	2	3	5	32	28
3	Brayden Michael (Sr)	.1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
8	Anthony Strong (So)	6.1	5	2	2	3	5	28	24
11	C. Phillips (Sr)	.1	1	1	0	0	0	3	3

Gray Collegiate Academy

#	Athlete Name	OBA	OBP	HBP	#P	SB
	Team Totals	.320	.414	1	92	2
9	Zeb Taylor	.250	.500	1	18	2
15	Zak Perry	.333	.391	0	74	0

Cheraw

#	Athlete Name	OBA	OBP	WP	HBP	#P	PO	SB
	Team Totals	.214	.312	1	1	115	1	1
3	Brayden Michael (Sr)	.000	.000	0	0	5	0	0
8	Anthony Strong (So)	.208	.321	0	1	99	1	1
11	C. Phillips (Sr)	.333	.333	1	0	11	0	0

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Game Story

South Carolina High School Baseball - Cheraw edges Gray Collegiate Academy

April 30, 2025: Cheraw, SC 29520

In Wednesday's non-league game, the host Cheraw Braves baseball team scored a close 5-3 win over the Gray Collegiate Academy War Eagles.

The Braves (21-3) will now prepare for their game against Sumter (Sumter, SC). The Gamecocks go into the non-league game with a 14-11 record. In their last game, Sumter nudged Ridge View (Columbia, SC), 7-0, in a league game.

Next, the War Eagles play the Dreher Blue Devils (Columbia, SC) in a non-league game, on Friday, May 2. Gray Collegiate Academy will attempt to improve on its 13-12 season record. The Blue Devils go into the game with a 7-15 record after their 15-2 non-league loss to A.C. Flora (Columbia, SC).

GCA @ Cheraw Baseball Game Info

Wed., Apr. 30, 2025 @ 6:30p

Cheraw Senior High School

The Cheraw (SC) varsity baseball team won Wednesday's home non-conference game against Gray Collegiate Academy (West Columbia, SC) by a score of 5-3.

Rankings & Records

Gray Collegiate Academy (24-25)

SC	Class
72	16

Overall	Region	Home	Away	Neutral	Win %	Region %	RF	RA
15-14	6-8	9-4	5-9	1-1	.517	.429	142	94

Cheraw (24-25)

SC	Class
46	2

Overall	Region	Home	Away	Neutral	Win %	Region %	RF	RA
23-5	5-0	14-1	8-2	1-2	.821	1.000	226	75

Team Scoring Averages

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	R	H	E
Gray Collegiate Academy	1.0	.6	.8	.7	1.0	.7	.8	2.0	4.9	7.2	1.5
Cheraw	.8	1.3	2.0	1.8	1.3	.8	.8	0	8.1	8.1	1.6

Team Stat Comparison

Gray Collegiate Academy		Cheraw
.312	Batting Average	.312
.416	On Base Percentage	.424
.386	Slugging Percentage	.409
.936	Fielding Percentage	.930
.667	Win Loss Percentage	.783

Team Leaders

Gray Collegiate Academy		Cheraw	National Avg.
#16 Kinnon Lawrimore.500	Batting Average	#5 Terrence Blackmon.429	.239
#4 JP Sweatt.604	On Base Percentage	#5 Terrence Blackmon.500	.379
#4 JP Sweatt.683	Slugging Percentage	#5 Terrence Blackmon.619	.302
#16 Kinnon Lawrimore1.000	Fielding Percentage	#17 Crawford Poole1.000	.860
#6 Riley Huggins1.000	Win Loss Percentage	#11 Charlie Phillips1.000	.532

Common Opponents

School	Common Opp. Rec.		School	Common Opp. Rec.
Gray Collegiate Academy	0-1		Cheraw	1-0

Date	Away	Home	Result		Date	Away	Home	Result
3/6/25	Waccamaw	Gray Collegiate Academy	(L) 6-2		3/9/25	Cheraw	Waccamaw	(W) 7-4

Record Breakdown

Gray Collegiate Academy (24-25)		Cheraw (24-25)
15-14	Overall	23-5
6-8	League	5-0
7-2	Non-League	12-3
0-1	Head to Head	1-0
0-1	Common Opponent	1-0
9-4	Home	14-1
5-9	Away	8-2
1-1	Neutral	1-2
1-2	Playoff	1-0
10-13	In-State	23-5
5-1	Out-of-State	0-0