Baseball Recap: South-Doyle Drops Season-High Score on Lenoir City

Cherokees

Team Score (Highest)

03/18/25 vs Lenoir City	11
03/17/25 @ Lenoir City	6
03/03/25 vs King's Academy	5
02/24/25 vs Union County	4
03/07/25 @ Anderson County	2

Winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask South-Doyle). They blew past the Lenoir City Panthers 11-5 on Tuesday. The Cherokees haven't had any issues with the Panthers recently, as the game was their sixth consecutive victory against them.

Gabe Jones was a major factor while hitting and pitching. He looked comfortable on the mound, pitching four innings while giving up just two earned runs off four hits. The dominant performance also gave him a new career-high in strikeouts (three). He was also stellar in the batter's box, scoring three runs and stealing Two bases. while going 3-for-4. He also brought in three RBI, marking his first of the season.

In other batting news, South-Doyle got a big performance out of Landon Bates, who scored two runs and stole a base while getting on base in three of his four plate appearances. Holden Lowe was another key player, scoring a run and stealing Two bases. while going 1-for-3.

South-Doyle was getting hits left and right and finished the game having posted a batting average of .387. That's the best batting average they've posted all season.

South-Doyle's record is now 3-4-1. As for Lenoir City, they dropped their record down to 1-8 with the loss, which was their third straight on the road.

Both squads will have to hit the road in their upcoming games. South-Doyle will challenge Halls at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday. As for Lenoir City, they will face off against Heritage at 6:00 p.m. on Monday.