From a beginning as glum as the weather that hampered high school baseball in the early going, Boyd-Buchanan is beginning to more resemble the Class A favorite it was expected to be.
The Buccaneers went close to four weeks without being able to use their field, because of the inclement weather, and were five games into the season before registering their first win. They now have won seven of their last eight, losing only to Huntsville Grissom in the Central Invitational championship game last weekend.
Victory No. 8 came Thursday in the opening game of Lookout Valley’s Yellow Jacket Classic as they beat the hosts 8-3. They later beat Rockwood 16-0 as Brandon Willingham pitched a five-inning no-hitter with 10 strikeouts.
The win over Lookout Valley was not as easy as the score indicated. The Bucs led just 2-1 through their first four turns at the plate and stranded four runners in scoring position in each of the first two at-bats.
“We didn’t do a good job of getting them in when we got them on early,” Boyd-Buchanan coach Josh Rider said. “As a coach you worry when the guys let chances like those slip through their fingers.”