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Thatcher Blue Ridge

Eagles

Yellow Jackets

The Blue Ridge (Lakeside, AZ) varsity baseball team won Thursday's neutral conference game against Thatcher (AZ) by a score of 4-3.

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	R	H	E
Thatcher	3	0	0	0	0	-	-	3	-	-
Blue Ridge	0	0	0	3	1	-	-	4	-	-

Final score provided by S. Hoffmeyer.

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Game Stats

Blue Ridge (18-19)

Thatcher

Batting

#	Athlete Name	Avg	PA	AB	R	H	RBI	2B
	Team Totals	.500	25	24	3	12	3	2
1	Jacob Ward (So)	.000	2	2	0	0	0	0
2	Javan Montoya	1.000	3	3	1	3	1	1
4	Aleck Verdugo	1.000	3	2	0	2	2	0
5	Quinten Carlton	.000	2	2	0	0	0	0
7	Jack Kortsen	.000	3	3	0	0	0	0
9	Seth Lunt	.000	3	3	0	0	0	0
13	Jason Carrasco	1.000	3	3	0	3	0	1
15	Treven Clark	.667	3	3	1	2	0	0
30	Micheal McBride	.667	3	3	1	2	0	0

Blue Ridge

Batting

#	Athlete Name	Avg	PA	AB	R	H	RBI	2B
	Team Totals	.211	20	19	4	4	4	3
2	John Barajas (Sr)		2	2			1
4	Josh Jones (Jr)		1	1
5	Kai Tainatongo (Sr)		3	3
6	Gunner Martinez (So)		2	1	1
8	Tucker Smith (Jr)	.500	2	2	1	1	1	1
9	Dylan Hanson (Sr)		1	1
13	T. McCullough (Sr)	.500	2	2	1	1		1
17	Zeke Kessay (Sr)		3	3
19	Chris Verdugo (Sr)	.500	2	2		1	2
21	Josh Morquecho (Sr)	.500	2	2	1	1		1

Thatcher

#	Athlete Name	BB	K	LOB	OBP	SLG	OPS
	Team Totals	1	7	7	.520	.583	1.103
1	Jacob Ward (So)	0	2	1	.000	.000	.000
2	Javan Montoya	0	0	0	1.000	1.333	2.333
4	Aleck Verdugo	1	0	0	1.000	1.000	2.000
5	Quinten Carlton	0	2	1	.000	.000	.000
7	Jack Kortsen	0	1	5	.000	.000	.000
9	Seth Lunt	0	2	5	.000	.000	.000
13	Jason Carrasco	0	0	0	1.000	1.333	2.333
15	Treven Clark	0	0	0	.667	.666	1.334
30	Micheal McBride	0	0	2	.667	.666	1.334

Blue Ridge

#	Athlete Name	BB	K	ROE	OBP	SLG	OPS
	Team Totals	1	5	1	.250	.368	.618
5	Kai Tainatongo (Sr)		3		.000	.000	.000
6	Gunner Martinez (So)	1			.500	.000	.500
8	Tucker Smith (Jr)			1	.500	1.000	1.500
13	T. McCullough (Sr)				.500	1.000	1.500
17	Zeke Kessay (Sr)		2		.000	.000	.000
19	Chris Verdugo (Sr)				.500	.500	1.000
21	Josh Morquecho (Sr)				.500	1.000	1.500

Thatcher

Baserunning

#	Athlete Name	SB
	Team Totals	3
2	Javan Montoya	1
4	Aleck Verdugo	1
30	Micheal McBride	1

Blue Ridge

Baserunning

#	Athlete Name	SB	SBA
	Team Totals	1	1
19	Chris Verdugo (Sr)	1	1

Thatcher

Fielding

#	Athlete Name	FP	TC	PO	A
	Team Totals	1.000	18	15	3
2	Javan Montoya	1.000	2	2	0
4	Aleck Verdugo	1.000	2	2	0
5	Quinten Carlton	1.000	1	1	0
7	Jack Kortsen	1.000	1	1	0
9	Seth Lunt	1.000	4	3	1
13	Jason Carrasco	1.000	2	0	2
15	Treven Clark	1.000	1	1	0
30	Micheal McBride	1.000	1	1	0

Blue Ridge

Fielding

#	Athlete Name	FP	TC	PO	A	E
	Team Totals	.909	22	15	5	2
2	John Barajas (Sr)	1.000	3	3
4	Josh Jones (Jr)	1.000	1		1
5	Kai Tainatongo (Sr)	1.000	3	2	1
6	Gunner Martinez (So)	.800	5	2	2	1
8	Tucker Smith (Jr)	1.000	7	7
9	Dylan Hanson (Sr)	.000	1			1
13	T. McCullough (Sr)	1.000	1	1
17	Zeke Kessay (Sr)	1.000	1		1

Thatcher

Pitching

#	Athlete Name	ERA	APP
	Team Totals	5.60	1
2	Javan Montoya	0.00	1
13	Jason Carrasco	15.75	1
15	Treven Clark	4.20	1

Blue Ridge

Pitching

#	Athlete Name	ERA	W	W%	APP	GS
	Team Totals	2.80	1	1.000	2	1
4	Josh Jones (Jr)		1	1.000	1
9	Dylan Hanson (Sr)	4.67			1	1

Thatcher

#	Athlete Name	IP	H	R	ER	BB	K	BF	AB
	Team Totals	5	5	4	4	1	6	21	20
2	Javan Montoya	2	1	0	0	0	4	7	7
13	Jason Carrasco	1.1	3	3	3	1	1	8	7
15	Treven Clark	1.2	1	1	1	0	1	6	6

Blue Ridge

#	Athlete Name	IP	H	R	ER	K	BF	AB
	Team Totals	5	8	3	2	7	25	25
4	Josh Jones (Jr)	2	2			2	9	9
9	Dylan Hanson (Sr)	3	6	3	2	5	16	16

Thatcher

#	Athlete Name	OBA	OBP	#P	SB
	Team Totals	.250	.286	84	1
2	Javan Montoya	.143	.143	41	0
13	Jason Carrasco	.429	.500	20	0
15	Treven Clark	.167	.167	23	1

Blue Ridge

#	Athlete Name	OBA	OBP	#P
	Team Totals	.320	.320	65
4	Josh Jones (Jr)	.222	.222	23
9	Dylan Hanson (Sr)	.375	.375	42

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Game Story

Arizona High School Baseball - Thatcher can't hold off Blue Ridge

February 28, 2019: Thatcher, AZ 85552

In Thursday's league game, the visiting Blue Ridge Yellow Jackets baseball team scored a tight 4-3 victory over the Thatcher Eagles.

The Yellow Jackets (2-0) will now prepare for their game against Show Low (Show Low, AZ). The Cougars go into the non-league game with a 0-1 record. In their last game, Show Low was edged by American Leadership Academy - Gilbert North (Gilbert, AZ), 10-2, in a non-league game.

The Eagles (3-1) will now prepare for their game against Hayden (Winkelman, AZ). The Lobos go into the non-league game with a 0-2 record. In their last game, Hayden was edged by San Tan Foothills (Queen Creek, AZ), 8-0, in a non-league game.

Players of the Game

Thatcher (18-19)

Thatcher has not selected any Players of the Game.

Blue Ridge (18-19)

Congratulations to #2 John Barajas for being selected the Blue Ridge Baseball Player of the Game.

Rankings & Records

Thatcher (18-19)

National	AZ	Div.
2,970	54	3

Overall	Section	Home	Away	Neutral	Win %	Section %	RF	RA
20-7	10-4	6-3	7-1	7-3	.741	.714	164	86

Blue Ridge (18-19)

National	AZ	Div.
6,831	114	18

Overall	Section	Home	Away	Neutral	Win %	Section %	RF	RA
15-13	8-5	7-4	3-4	5-5	.536	.615	229	191

Team Scoring Averages

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Thatcher	1.0	.8	1.3	.9	.7	.9	1.2	0	2.7	6.1	11.5	1.1
Blue Ridge	1.5	1.3	1.2	1.4	2.2	1.3	.8	1.0	-	8.2	9.7	1.3

Team Stat Comparison

Thatcher		Blue Ridge
.383	Batting Average	.362
.461	On Base Percentage	.494
.465	Slugging Percentage	.515
.952	Fielding Percentage	.931
.867	Win Loss Percentage	.571

Team Leaders

Thatcher		Blue Ridge	National Avg.
#6 Trevin Gaylord.667	Batting Average	#14 Reece Esparza1.000	.248
#11 Brik Skousen1.000	On Base Percentage	#14 Reece Esparza1.000	.368
#24 Hunter Lee.666	Slugging Percentage	#12 Jaiden Kessay1.500	.308
#11 Brik Skousen1.000	Fielding Percentage	#26 Jackson Pollock1.000	.861
#13 Jason Carrasco1.000	Win Loss Percentage	#13 Tanner McCullough1.000	.526

Common Opponents

School	Common Opp. Rec.		School	Common Opp. Rec.
Thatcher	4-0		Blue Ridge	0-4

Date	Away	Home	Result	Date	Away	Home	Result
2/20/19	Thatcher	Tombstone	(W) 7-2	3/1/19	Blue Ridge	Tombstone	(L) 11-3
2/26/19	Tombstone	Thatcher	(W) 2-0
3/13/19	Safford	Thatcher	(W) 3-2	3/2/19	Safford	Blue Ridge	(L) 9-2
4/3/19	Thatcher	Safford	(W) 10-4	4/24/19	Safford	Blue Ridge	(L) 9-6
				4/30/19	Safford	Blue Ridge	(L) 8-5

Record Breakdown

Thatcher (18-19)		Blue Ridge (18-19)
20-7	Overall	15-13
10-4	League	8-5
4-0	Non-League	6-4
0-1	Head to Head	1-0
4-0	Common Opponent	0-4
6-3	Home	7-4
7-1	Away	3-4
7-3	Neutral	5-5
1-1	Playoff	0-0
20-6	In-State	15-12
0-1	Out-of-State	0-1