Greenwood Takes Two Of Three In Tourney

3-11-04 By: Brian Vaughn
    The Diamond Dogs played three games in four days in the Bentonville Tournament last week in their final tune-up before conference play begins.
   On Monday evening the Bulldogs made short order of Berryville in 5-innings of errorless play 12-0.
   Mark Leon took the win for the Bulldogs going all 5-innings with 7 strikeouts and only giving up 2 hits.
   Jason McDonald was 2 for 3 with an RBI, Daniel Stegall 1 for 3 with 3 RBI's ,Justin Fuchs was 2 or 2, Casey Benincosa was 2 for 3 with 3 RBI's, Will Hash was 1 for 1 and Joseph Piroutek 1 for 1 with 1 RBI.
   With the win Greenwood advanced to play Rogers on Tuesday evening.
   In what was a tight defensive ball game the Bulldogs would find the one run need to pull off a win 5-4.
   Justin Fuchs started the game and pitched the first 5-innings before being relieved by Janzen Black with the game tied at 4-4.
   Jantzen Black went 3 for 3 with 2 RBI's, Casey Benincosa 1 for 4 with 2 RBI's, Daniel Stegall 1 for 1 and Justin Fuchs 1 for 3.
   Greenwood had 7 hits for the night while Rogers had 5.
   The win over Rogers put Greenwood in the tournament championship game Thursday night against host team Bentonville.
   However, this left Greenwood head coach Craig Jones with quite a dilemma. What to do about pitching in this game considering the Bulldogs open up conference play the next day against Huntsville in double-header action.
   Greenwood did the best they could while saving the best to start the most important conference season falling in this one 11-1 in 5-innings of play.
   Daniel Stegal got the starting nod on the mound and went 3 1/2 innings before being relieved by Micah Fritsche.
   Greenwood only had 4 hits for the game, while Bentonville had 11.
       It was a good tournament for the Bulldogs with 5 guys that hit over 300 for the tournament.
   Casey Benincosa hit 556 with 5 RBI's, Daniel Stegall hit 400 with 3 RBI's,  Jason McDonald hit 333 with 1 RBI, Jantzen Black hit 571 with 2 RBI's and Justin Fuchs hit 429 for the tournament.

   
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                             
  

                                                Photo By: Roxanne Benincosa
Greenwood's Micah Fritsche pitching against Bentonville on Thursday. Greenwood lost 11-1 in 5-innings of play, but won 2 of 3 games during the tournament. Beating Berryville 12-0 and Rogers 5-4.

Mark Leon pitching against Berryville.
Photo By: John Fuchs

Mark Leon covering first against Bentonville.
Photo By: Roxanne Benincosa

Casey Benincosa collects the strike.
Photo By: Roxanne Benincosa

			r    h    e
Berryville	0   0   0	0   0	0    2    3
Greenwood	0   1   11	0   -	12 10   0
	AB	R	H	BI
McDonald cf	3	1	2	1
Efurd cf
Allison ss	2	2	0	1
Driscoll lf
J. Black 2b	2	2	1	0
Fritsche 2b
Stegall lf/ss	2	2	1	3
Benincosa c	3	1	2	3
Fuchs 3b	2	2	2	0
Hash 3b	1	0	1	0
Piroutek dh	1	1	1	1
Leon p	1	0	0	0
Deer 1b	1	1	0	1
Woods rf	2	0	0	1
Fair rf
Totals	20	12	10	11
	IP	R	ER	BB	SO	Hits
Leon (1-1)	5	0	0	2	7	2

Greenwood Box Scores Provided By Coach Craig Jones

				r      h     e
Rogers	0     3     0	1     0     0	0	4     5     4
Greenwood	2    1     0	1     0     1		5     7     5
	AB	R	H	BI
McDonald cf	3	2	0	0
Allison ss	2	0	0	0
J. Black 2b/p	3	2	3	2
Stegall lf/2b	1	0	1	0
Benincosa c	4	0	1	2
Fuchs p/3b	3	0	1	0
Piroutek dh	2	0	0	0
Fritsche 3b	1	1	0	0
Driscoll lf
Woods rf	3	0	1	0
Leon 1b
Totals	22	5	7	4
	IP	R	ER	BB	SO	Hits
Fuchs	5	4	3	2	3	5
J. Black   (1-0)	2	0	0	0	3	0

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