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Capital Lincoln County

Cougars

Panthers

The Lincoln County (Hamlin, WV) varsity baseball team won Wednesday's home non-conference game against Capital (Charleston, WV) by a score of 8-3.

Game Details: Lincoln County High School

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	R	H	E
Capital	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	3	-	-
Lincoln County	0	3	0	1	0	4	-	8	-	-

Recap
Box Score
Matchup

Game Stats

Capital (22-23)

Capital has not entered stats for this game.

Lincoln County (22-23)

Lincoln County

Batting

#	Athlete Name	Avg	PA	AB	R	H	RBI	2B
	Team Totals	.240	32	25	8	6	6	1
1	Walker Kessel (Fr)	.500	3	2	1	1	1	0
2	Graysen Ellis (Fr)	1.000	1	1	0	1	0	0
4	Isaac Byrd (Fr)	.333	4	3	1	1	1	1
8	Talan Linville (Jr)	.000	3	3	0	0	0	0
12	Grady Adkins (Fr)	.333	4	3	2	1	1	0
16	Brady Eplin (Jr)	.000	3	2	2	0	0	0
18	Ben Racer (Sr)	.000	1	1	0	0	0	0
22	Kolton Taylor (Sr)	.500	4	2	0	1	3	0
23	B. Starcher (Sr)	.333	4	3	1	1	0	0
24	Noah Duncan (Jr)	.000	3	3	1	0	0	0
28	Bralin Peters (Fr)	.000	2	2	0	0	0	0

Lincoln County

#	Athlete Name	SH/B	BB	K	ROE	LOB	OBP	SLG	OPS
	Team Totals	1	6	11	2	6	.387	.280	.667
1	Walker Kessel (Fr)	1	0	1	0	0	.500	.500	1.000
2	Graysen Ellis (Fr)	0	0	0	0	0	1.000	1.000	2.000
4	Isaac Byrd (Fr)	0	1	1	0	1	.500	.666	1.167
8	Talan Linville (Jr)	0	0	1	0	3	.000	.000	.000
12	Grady Adkins (Fr)	0	1	1	1	1	.500	.333	.833
16	Brady Eplin (Jr)	0	1	1	0	1	.333	.000	.333
18	Ben Racer (Sr)	0	0	1	0	0	.000	.000	.000
22	Kolton Taylor (Sr)	0	2	1	0	0	.750	.500	1.250
23	B. Starcher (Sr)	0	1	2	0	3	.500	.333	.833
24	Noah Duncan (Jr)	0	0	1	1	0	.000	.000	.000
28	Bralin Peters (Fr)	0	0	1	0	5	.000	.000	.000

Lincoln County

Baserunning

#	Athlete Name	SB
	Team Totals	4
12	Grady Adkins (Fr)	1
16	Brady Eplin (Jr)	2
23	B. Starcher (Sr)	1

Lincoln County

Fielding

#	Athlete Name	FP	TC	PO	E
	Team Totals	.808	26	21	5
1	Walker Kessel (Fr)	.667	3	2	1
2	Graysen Ellis (Fr)	.000	1	0	1
4	Isaac Byrd (Fr)	1.000	12	12	0
10	Hunter Chaffin (So)	1.000	1	1	0
12	Grady Adkins (Fr)	.333	3	1	2
16	Brady Eplin (Jr)	.500	2	1	1
22	Kolton Taylor (Sr)	1.000	1	1	0
23	B. Starcher (Sr)	1.000	2	2	0
28	Bralin Peters (Fr)	1.000	1	1	0

Lincoln County

Pitching

#	Athlete Name	W	W%	APP
	Team Totals	1	1.000	1
1	Walker Kessel (Fr)	0		1
23	B. Starcher (Sr)	1	1.000	1

Lincoln County

#	Athlete Name	IP	H	R	BB	K	BF	AB
	Team Totals	7	1	3	3	11	28	24
1	Walker Kessel (Fr)	.2	0	0	0	0	2	2
23	B. Starcher (Sr)	6.1	1	3	3	11	26	22

Lincoln County

#	Athlete Name	OBA	OBP	WP	HBP	#P	SB
	Team Totals	.042	.179	1	1	116	2
1	Walker Kessel (Fr)	.000	.000	1	0	5	0
23	B. Starcher (Sr)	.045	.192	0	1	111	2

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Game Story

West Virginia High School Baseball - Lincoln County defeats Capital

April 12, 2023: Hamlin, WV 25523

Spectators at Wednesday's non-league battle between the Lincoln County Panthers (Hamlin, WV) and the visiting Capital Cougars (Charleston, WV), saw Lincoln County's baseball squad knock off Capital by a count of 8-3.

Coming up next, the Panthers play the Van Bulldogs (Van, WV) in a Freelance battle, on Thursday, April 13. Lincoln County will attempt to move on its 1-14 season record. The Bulldogs enter the battle with a 0-8 record after their 17-1 non-league loss to WestSide (Clear Fork, WV).

The Cougars now possess a 2-5 record. They take the field next when they travel to Spring Valley for a Mountain State battle on Friday, April 14. Capital will play a Timberwolves squad coming off a 15-9 non-league win over John Marshall (Glen Dale, WV). The Timberwolves record now stands at 12-4.

Rankings & Records

Capital (22-23)

WV	Class
80	26

Overall	Region	Home	Away	Neutral	Win %	Region %	RF	RA
3-19	0-13	2-7	1-11	0-1	.136	.000	62	216

Lincoln County (22-23)

WV	Class
76	29

Overall	Region	Home	Away	Neutral	Win %	Region %	RF	RA
6-23	2-4	5-10	1-9	0-4	.207	.333	98	283

Team Scoring Averages

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	R	H	E
Capital	.6	.2	.4	.3	.4	.2	.2	2.0	2.8	6.5	.5
Lincoln County	1.1	.5	.4	.4	.3	.9	.6	-	3.4	4.6	3.6

Team Stat Comparison

Capital		Lincoln County
-	Batting Average	.233
-	On Base Percentage	.341
-	Slugging Percentage	.314
-	Fielding Percentage	.825
-	Win Loss Percentage	.222

Team Leaders

Capital		Lincoln County	National Avg.
-	Batting Average	#23 Brayden Starcher.409	.243
-	On Base Percentage	#23 Brayden Starcher.530	.375
-	Slugging Percentage	#4 Isaac Byrd.586	.307
-	Fielding Percentage	#7 Kayson Toppings1.000	.861
-	Win Loss Percentage	#16 Brady Eplin.333	.543

Common Opponents

School	Common Opp. Rec.		School	Common Opp. Rec.
Capital	0-7		Lincoln County	1-8

Date	Away	Home	Result	Date	Away	Home	Result
3/17/23	Capital	Cabell Midland	(L) 15-2	5/10/23	Lincoln County	Cabell Midland	(L) 11-1
4/11/23	Capital	George Washington	(L) 14-0	4/5/23	George Washington	Lincoln County	(L) 12-5
4/14/23	Capital	Spring Valley	(L) 7-1	3/16/23	Lincoln County	Spring Valley	(L) 10-0
4/14/23	Capital	Spring Valley	(L) 7-1	4/19/23	Spring Valley	Lincoln County	(L) 11-1
				5/9/23	Lincoln County	Spring Valley	(L) 10-0
4/15/23	Ripley	Capital		4/11/23	Ripley	Lincoln County	(L) 20-1
4/29/23	Capital	Ripley	(L) 11-1	4/20/23	Lincoln County	Ripley	(L) 12-1
4/21/23	Capital	South Charleston	(L) 2-1	3/22/23	Lincoln County	South Charleston	(L) 10-3
5/8/23	Capital	South Charleston	(L) 3-2	4/25/23	South Charleston	Lincoln County	(W) 7-6

Record Breakdown

Capital (22-23)		Lincoln County (22-23)
3-19	Overall	6-23
0-13	League	2-4
3-6	Non-League	4-18
0-1	Head to Head	1-0
0-7	Common Opponent	1-8
2-7	Home	5-10
1-11	Away	1-9
0-1	Neutral	0-4
0-0	Playoff	0-0
3-19	In-State	6-19
0-0	Out-of-State	0-4