Tigers down Demopolis
By Charlie Anderson Contributing Writer

PHOTO BY ARTHUR MCLEAN Tevin Pope fouls a ball against Demopolis in Thomasville last week.

The Thomasville High School Tiger varsity baseball team locked up with the Demopolis High School Tigers in a 10 inning thriller last Monday, March 31, here in Thomasville. In the game the homestanding Tigers took a 2 - 0 lead after three innings and then extended it to 3 - 1 after five innings. But the boys from the River City fought their way back knotting the score at 3 - 3 after six. Although both teams had runners in scoring position more than once with less than two outs, the game remained tied up until the bottom of the tenth inning when Thomasville pushed across another run with two outs on the board giving them a hard earned 4 -3 win.

Mallan Sheffield, the last of five pitchers used by the Tigers in the game was credited with the win. In two innings of work he gave up two hits, one walk, and hit one batter while striking out three. He was preceded in order by Alex Buford, who started the game, Paul Noble, Daniel Rogers, and Reeves Bozeman. Buford in three innings of work gave up two hits, one walk, and hit one batter while striking out four. Noble then pitched two innings allowing one run on one hit and one walk while striking out five. Rogers, who took the mound next, allowed two runs on two hits, one walk and one hit batsman while striking out one. Bozeman, the pitcher who immediately preceded Sheffield, logged two innings in which he allowed one hit and struck out four.

On offense Thomasville was led by the quartet of Reeves Bozeman, Alex Buford, Dylan Digmon, and Paul Noble with two hits each. Joining them with one hit were Jamie Morgan and Tevin Pope. In the extra-base hit category Bozeman set the tone with a triple while Digmon and Noble each had a double. Digmon led the team in RBIs with two followed by Morgan and Noble with one apiece.

It was Morgan's single in the bottom of the tenth driving in Sean Skelton who went all the way to third on a ball the first baseman couldn't handle that proved to be the game winner. As is often the case in baseball, his offensive heroics came after he had made a diving catch in the outfield during the top of the inning to keep the game tied.

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