Eagles Improve to 9-0 with Win at McCann Tech
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. – The Mount Everett baseball pitching staff Thursday gave up a base hit to the first batter it faced.
It did not allow much else the rest of the way in earning a 17-1 win over McCann Tech on Joe Wolfe Field.
The Hornets took advantage of that leadoff hit in the bottom of the first to generate their only run of the game.
Eagles starter Brodie Kinna and relievers Brady Carpenter and Trevor Leonard went on to strike out seven, walk three and allow just the one run as Mount Everett earned its second win over the season over the Hornets and improved to 9-0 this spring.
“Brodie came in and did his job,” Mount Everett coach Brian Wade said. “I really wanted to see Brady Carpenter on the mound today and get Trevor another inning. So I was glad to be able to get them both an inning.
“We had them kind of on a pitch count today because we go back into conference play next week, and that’s really going to be our focus.”
Kinna got a called third strike to leave the bases loaded in the bottom of the first, and Mount Everett’s pitchers went on to retire the next 10 Hornets in order – an 11-batter streak that ended when Brennan Vallieres worked a one-out walk in the bottom of the fifth.
Mount Everett’s offense, meanwhile, took the lead in the top of the first with a pair of runs and never looked back.
Darius Taliaferro led off with a walk, stole second and third and scored on Kinna’s single. Carpenter then singled, went to second when Leonard worked a walk and scored on Cameron Coon’s RBI single to right. Kinna had been erased trying to go to third on Carpenter’s single.
In the second, the Eagles took control with a six-run rally to take an 8-1 lead.
Kinna singled, and the Eagles took advantage of three walks, two errors and a hit batter in the frame.
Two innings later, the visitors tacked on five more runs in an inning keyed by Taliaferro’s three-run double.
Mount Everett then put the game out of reach with a four-run fifth that saw J.J. Schneider, Johnny Ireland, Taliaferro and Kinna each drive in a run.
The Eagles got production up and down the lineup as they scored a season high and scored in double figures for the fifth time this season.
“It was awesome,” Wade said of the balanced attack. “It was good to see Landon [Havens] and Jamie [Beirne-Marchione] each come up with their first varsity hits. Mikey [Ireland] came up from the JV and did some courtesy running for us and scored a couple runs.
“It was great to see everybody contribute overall.”
Mount Everett will look for its 10th win of the season on Tuesday when it hosts South Hadley, a team it beat, 1-0, in the season opener.
McCann Tech (4-3) is on the road Monday at Smith Vocational.