No. 5 Greene Central baseball run rules Croatan to complete perfect regular season
Only two high school baseball teams in the state of North Carolina can still claim to be undefeated.
One calls Snow Hill home.
Four big innings at the plate is all that No. 5 Greene Central needed to make quick work of Croatan, 10-0. The victory wrapped up regular season play for the Rams with a pristine 21-0 record.
Austin Hardy was untouchable on the mound. The lefty tossed a five-inning shutout with only one hit allowed, and ten strikeouts. It's the third consecutive start that Hardy has touched double digit K's.
At the plate, a pair of two-run innings were followed by consecutive three-run innings. In 22 at-bats, the Rams totaled 10 runs on 11 hits.
Spearheading the offense was Braden Burress, Easton Creech, and Will Radford at the top of the order. The first three hitters in the Greene Central lineup went a combined 5-for-10 with four RBI and three runs scored.
Seven different players drove in runs for the Rams. Noah Uzzell and Cameron Taylor both put together multi-hit games with a run driven in.
Weston Thomas had Croatan's lone hit. The Cougars fell to 16-4 overall following the defeat but will enter postseason play as the top seed from the Coastal 3A Conference.
Greene Central is currently projected to be the No. 1 seed in the 2A east when brackets come out next week. The only other team to sport an unbeaten record is defending 2A state champion Burns who looms on the western half of the playoff bracket.
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