In the very first game of the 11-year-olds’ Governor’s Cup, the Madison Riverdogs posted what might stand as the most impressive stat of the entire tournament.

Cole Bush and Steven Hillerman issued no walks and needed only 41 pitches to shut down the Vicksburg Pirates for five innings, and got the Riverdogs off to a fast start with a 4-1 victory.

Hillerman also drove in a run for the Riverdogs, who scored all of their runs without the benefit of a hit.

“They were too fast,” Pirates coach Pat Chambers said of his hitters. “(Bush) wasn’t a fast pitcher, and they were trying to crush it. They got out a little too early and you saw what happened. We hit a bunch of pop-ups and weak grounders.”

Vicksburg took a 1-0 lead in the bottom of the first on an RBI single from Marcus Ragan, but struggled the rest of the way. They had two runners thrown out on the basepaths in the first inning, and allowed two unearned runs in the third and fourth.

Three errors, two walks, two wild pitches