Baseball Recap: Drew Hymas leads a balanced attack to beat Thunder Ridge

By Team Reports May 5, 2024, 12:57am

Baseball Recap: Highland Rams vs. Thunder Ridge Titans

Highland entered their tilt with Thunder Ridge with 12 consecutive wins but they'll enter their next game with 13. They never let the Thunder Ridge Titans onto the board and left with a 3-0 win on Thursday. That result was just more of the same for these two, as Highland also won the last time the pair played last Saturday.

Not much got past Jackson Hale, who gave up just three hits and racked up 11 Ks to keep Thunder Ridge off the board.

At the plate, Highland's victory was truly a team effort as five different players contributed at least one hit. One of them was Drew Hymas, who scored a run and stole a base while going 1-for-2. Colton Durham was another key contributor, going 1-for-3 with two stolen bases and an RBI.

Highland has been performing incredibly well recently as they've won 17 of their last 18 games, which provided a nice bump to their 19-6 record this season. As for Thunder Ridge, they dropped their record down to 4-16 with that loss, which was their eighth straight on the road.

Highland didn't take long to hit the field again: they've already played their next contest, a 7-3 win vs. Rigby on the 2nd. Thunder Ridge has also already played their next match, an 8-4 defeat against Madison on the 2nd.

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