Shea No-Hitter, Martin's Hot Bat Leads Gladstone
The Gladstone High School baseball team lost the first game of its downstate roadtrip on Friday, falling 5-3 to Traverse City Central.
But the Braves came back strong on Saturday to beat the Kingsley Stags, 9-1 and 4-0.
In Kingsley, Carson Shea threw a no-hitter in the 4-0 win. He struck out five batters and walked just one in six innings of work. Dan Martin had a three-run double in the top of the third inning to break a scoreless tie. Cooper Cavadeas singled home Ian Schwalbach for the other Gladstone run in the top of the fourth inning.
In Saturday's other game, Gladstone scored three runs in the first inning and four more in the second to take control. Zach Hanson threw four innings for the win, allowing two hits, striking out four, and walking none. Caden Alworden threw two scoreless innings in relief.
Hanson helped his own cause with a two-run double in the second inning and Cavadeas added an RBI single. Martin added icing on the cake in the fourth inning with a two-run homer to right field.
On Friday, Shea doubled home Caden Alworden to give the Braves an early 2-0 lead, then after the Trojans tied it, Shea's sacrifice fly in the sixth inning made it 3-2.
TCC scored three runs in the bottom of the sixth to win it. Drake Forrest gave up one run on four hits in four innings. Riley Baldovski took the loss in relief, allowing four runs (one earned).
