Scout Notes from PG Park at LakePoint

Today was a light day of action at PG Park. The Alabama State Hornets squared off against the Ohio Bobcats. The Hornets won 12-6 thanks their huge ten-run third inning. All runs scored in the third for the Hornets were with two outs. Diandre Amion had a hot bat and gave the Hornets their first hit in the first inning with a line drive to center in and also had a RBI double down left field line. Amion has a slightly spread stance, with his hands close to chest and small load. He does a great job of taking his hands to the baseball and getting slightly underneath the baseball with a line drive swing plane to create solid contact to both sides of the field. He showed a great ability to drive the ball to the opposite field with ease. Receiving the win for the Hornets was Burke Echelmeir. Burke did an excellent job locating most of his pitches low in the strike zone creating an abundant of ground ball outs. His fastball ran from 85-88 mph, and paired it with a good sinking changeup thrown mostly at 81 mph and a good hard slider that he was able to maintain in the same slot as his fastball to generate a few and swings and misses.

The Georgia Highland Chargers faced the Roane State Raiders in a Tuesday Doubleheader. The Chargers won both games by a score of 6-2 and came back in the later innings of the second game to win 5-4. Jonathan White continues to show solid contact and showcased his power with a three-run blast in the first inning for the Chargers. Jake Lovvorn started the first game for the Chargers and received the win. Freshman David Hussey, closed out the game with his mid-80s fastball that touched 90 mph with life to seal the win. Roane State came out swinging in the first game and tacked on four runs in the first two innings with help from former 20^th round pick Shamoy Christopher who brought in a run with a line drive single to left field in the first inning. Christopher had better quality plate appearances on the right side as opposed to the left and caught a solid game overall behind the plate in the first game throwing out a runner in the bottom of the sixth. The Chargers were able to put up up two runs in the fifth inning and three runs in the sixth inning, while their bullpen threw five scoreless innings. Grant Bodison made his return to the field and made a great finish to a double play making a strong throw to first in the bottom of the third inning.