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Tournaments  | Story  | 7/7/2022

FL Dodgers Start 3-0 at 16u BCS

Riley Sheppard     
Photo: Chris Davila (Perfect Game)
FORT MYERS, Fla. -- When your team is put on stand-by for over half the day, getting them ready to play again is a coach's No. 1 goal.

Luckily for the FL Dodgers 2024 Scout Team staff, their guys were way ahead of them.



“Me and the other coach, Coach Meyers, were talking as we’re coming up and as we step up we see our guys beat us here,” Head Coach Mike Boswell said postgame. “They're ready to go, they know, ‘Hey, we're here to play baseball.’ That’s what we came here to do.”

Beating their coaches to the field paid off for the Dodgers, taking down Scorpions 2024 by a score of 7-0.

Chris Gant took over on the mound when the game got back underway around 6:30 pm Wednesday evening. The right-hander mixed a variety of pitches and allowed just one hit over his three innings of work.

In the team's first time at bat since the long lightning delay, Chris Davila could not have found a better way to get things started, sending a three-run home run down the right field line to extend the Dodgers' lead to 4-0.

“I didn't think it was going out,” Davila said. “I just came out of the box running, I was thinking three, but then I heard it was going over the fence.”

The Dodgers followed up their three-run inning with two more in the fourth, highlighted by an RBI triple from Benjamin Robinson to drive in Seth Alford, who singled in the previous at-bat.

After Gant’s three innings of work, right-hander Owen Draves took things over in the top of the sixth. Draves threw an effective two innings of relief, striking out two with his low-80s fastball and allowing just one hit.

Despite being off to a 3-0 start to the BCS National Championship, the Dodgers know tomorrow starts a new day: rain or shine.

“We bring the intensity every time we step out on the field, we try to bury our opponents,” Boswell said. “Tomorrow starts a new bracket play, it all starts over, everybody's 0-0, and we go to work."
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