Boyd-Buchanan’s Colter Parker, No. 22, runs for home base during the Boyd-Buchanan vs. Grace Academy District 5-A championship prep baseball game Thursday at Boyd-Buchanan High School in Chattanooga. Boyd-Buchanan won 10-0 after 5 innings.
Staff Photo by Jenna Walker/Chattanooga Times Free PressLooking for a return to the Class A state baseball finals, Boyd-Buchanan wrapped up its second District 5-A championship Thursday, beating Grace Academy 10-0 on Clayton Parker’s five-inning no-hitter.
The Buccaneers didn’t get a hit until the fourth inning but led 2-0 and then broke the game open with six fifth-inning runs.
“Sometimes when you have played somebody three times and beat them, you tend to relax a little,” said Josh Rider, the former assistant in his first year as the Buccaneers’ head coach.
Grace, which came back through the losers bracket and eliminated regular-season runner-up Silverdale Baptist, never got its head above water, and coach Ruston Pierce isn’t sure the Golden Eagles ever will if Boyd-Buchanan’s in the other dugout.
Grace, 0-4 against the Bucs this year, will have to get through 6-A champion South Pittsburg on Monday to have another chance at Boyd-Buchanan – if the Bucs beat 6-A runner-up Marion County.