Baseball team tagged as bi-district champs

By ELLIS KNOX reporter@campcountynow.com

The Pirates bested the Bullard Panthers in a best of two out of three series. Winning game one and game two to close the door on the Panthers for the Bi-District title. Game one re-cap. Bullard the designated home team scored rst in the bottom of the rst by one run. e Pirates went ahead by scoring two runs in the top of the h and the Panthers tied it up in the bottom of the fifth, three runs each. In the top of the sixth the pirates created a storm of runs putting six runs across the plate bring the total to nine. The Panthers were not able to rally and it ended, Pirates 6, Panthers 3. Brett McGee pitched all seven innings, faced 28 batters, throwing 104 pitches, 69 of which were strikes and 18 of those were first strike pitches. He pitched an exceptional .663 strike percentage. He gave up seven hits, three runs, struck out three, and walked none.

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