CLEVELAND, Tenn. — The word is that Lee University baseball coach Mark Brew has tendered a scholarship offer to Cleveland pitcher Dustin Lawson.
“If that’s the case, I can see why,” Soddy-Daisy coach Jared Hensley said after his Trojans dropped their first District 5-AAA game to Lawson and his Blue Raider teammates.
Lawson did something no other Soddy-Daisy opponent has done, holding the high-octane Trojans to three hits — an infield single and two squibbing bloopers — in a 5-3 Cleveland victory.
“We didn’t do what we typically do at the plate. I don’t think we hit a ball hard all night,” Hensley said. “He’s awesome.”
Soddy-Daisy did capitalize on Lawson’s one sub-par inning, the fifth, when Blake Stewart looped a one-out, two-run single to right-center after the Blue Raiders senior walked Michael Howard and Cris Manka. Lawson got out of the inning when Derek Murray initiated a 3-6-1 double play.