Eagles batter Glenbrook|[3/11/05]

Published 12:00 am Friday, March 11, 2005

Porters Chapel left its bats in Louisiana on Wednesday.

It turned out to be a good thing.

Judd Mims led a 13-hit attack by going 3-for-3 with three RBIs, and Michael Busby was 2-for-3 with a triple and three RBIs as Porters Chapel (3-1) routed Glenbrook 13-2 on Thursday afternoon.

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Hayden Hales, Chris Mixon and Brady Towne had two hits apiece for the Eagles, and all but one PCA starter had at least one hit. The lone starter without a hit, catcher Dean Hill, still reached base on a walk and drove in a run with a groundout.

“It’s fun. It’s exciting to see all the balls flying everywhere,” said Mims, who had his second straight three-hit game. “People were hitting gaps, and it’s exciting to see people who haven’t hit all year coming out today and going 3-for-3 and hitting the ball good off a pretty good pitcher.”

PCA was to play at Huntington on Wednesday, but the game was rained out by a passing thunderstorm. When the Eagles left the school in Ferriday, La., an equipment bag containing most of their bats was left behind.

The mix-up left PCA with only one bat to use for Thursday’s game, but it hardly mattered.

After a scoreless first inning, PCA took the lead with an unearned run and Spencer Pell made it 2-0 with an RBI single. Mims followed with a two-run single and Busby tripled to center before scoring on Hill’s groundout to give the Eagles a 6-0 lead.

They added six more runs in the third. Back-to-back RBI doubles by Mixon and Towne started the rally, and Busby capped it with a two-run single. Mims and Moose Carney also had RBI singles in the inning as PCA stretched its lead to 12-0 and put the game out of reach.

“We hit the ball extremely well today,” PCA coach Randy Wright said. “The kid they had on the mound was really good. A left-handed kid throwing the ball in the low 80s, I thought he looked really good and we just battered him all around the park today. I could not be more pleased with our hitting today.”

Hales shut down Glenbrook (9-2) on the hill. He didn’t have his best stuff – he allowed three hits, walked three and hit three batters – but he had enough to stop the Apaches. Hales struck out eight and gave up only a pair of unearned runs in the fifth inning.