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The Butler County Bears have had a busy week of baseball so far. The week has included a loss 3-1 to Warren Central on Monday, an exciting win at Metcalfe County 11-10 on Tuesday, and a 4-1 loss to Grayson County on Thursday night.  The Bears JV also played two contests over the week, beating Warren Central 6-4 on Monday night, and losing 9-6 to Grayson County on Thursday.

Monday night’s game proved to be pitchers duel against the Warren Central Dragons.  Junior Keston Flener had the mound for the bears, going six innings and only giving up 1 earned run, 2 hits, all while striking out 8 Dragon batters.  Cole Tynes relieved Flener going into the sixth inning, not allowing a run and striking out 1 batter.  However, the Bears offense was not able to help the BCHS pitchers, only posting 4 hits and 1 run on the night. Flener and Tynes both recorded 1 hit, while Blake Graham continued to stay hot at the plate posting 2 hits. 

Bears 1- Warren Central 3

                           R    H    E
Bears                   1    4    2
Warren Central      3    5    1

The BCHS JV faired better than the varsity team in the second game of Monday night.  The Bears scored six runs with 8th grader Drew Clark getting the win on the mound.  Clark only allowed 4 runs, helping to give the Bears the 6-4 victory.

Tuesday night the BCHS varsity made the trek to Metcalfe County High School for a 6:00 match-up.  The Bears offense came alive Tuesday night, scoring 11 runs and posting 11 hits.  Despite being down 10-4 going into the fifth inning the Bears kept batting. A bases loaded single by freshman Caleb Hunt in the fifth inning with two outs scored 3 runs and helped to cut the Metcalfe lead down to 10-9.  Dillen White came in to relieve Cole Tynes on the mound and did not allow a single run cross the plate for the next three innings, shutting down the Metcalfe bats.  The Bears tied the game 10-10 in the sixth inning, and were able score 1 more in the seventh inning, giving them the 11-10 victory and giving White his second win of the season.

Metcalfe County 10- Bears 11

                               R      H     E
Metcalfe County     10    10    2
Bears                    11    11    5

On Thursday night BCHS made the trip to Grayson County High School to face the Cougars in their first district match-up of the season.  Like Monday night, it was a pitchers duel on the mound.  Steven White was the starting pitcher for the Bears and found the strike zone early on.  White only allowed 3 runs in his 5 2/3 innings of work.  After falling 1-0 the Bears tied the game up at 1-1 in the top of the fourth inning; however, the cougars responded, making it 3-1 the next inning.  Dillen White came into relieve Steven White only the mound, and shut down the Cougars offense, not allowing an earned run to cross the plate. The Bears bats were unable to produce late in the game, however, and suffered a defeat of 4-1. 

According to Coach Winn, "We played solid baseball.  We pitched well, played good defense, and even hit well.  We just didn’t get hits when we needed to with runners in scoring position." The loss dropped the Bears to 2-7 on the season while the Cougars moved to 5-2.

The Bears JV team dropped the second game of the varsity/JV double header suffering a 9-6 defeat.  Brandon Jones recorded the loss on the mound while the Bears JV moved to 1-2 on the year.

The BCHS varsity will be back in action on Saturday as they will travel to Davidson Academy to play a doubleheader with a game against the home team Davidson and a game against Murray KY High School. 

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Photos by Jeremy Hack, Beech Tree News