Written by Goffstown High School Baseball came into Friday afternoon’s game at Manchester Central with an 0-3 record, and a total of 5 runs scored on the season. With temperatures 30 degrees warmer than the day before, the Grizzlies got the offense going right from the start. Goffstown scored three runs in the first inning and never looked back.
Myles Green got his first start on the mound and pitched well, going five innings. The line on Green was 5IP, 7K’s, 3BB’s, 2H, and one run allowed. Most impressively Green battled and pitched out of bases-loaded jams in the 4th and 5th innings, allowing just the one run on a sacrifice fly hit by Jacob Privey. Riley Belleau pitched the final two frames, his first outing of the season. After a shaky 6th, allowing a hit and two walks, Belleau settled in and retired the last five batters he faced. Goffstown won their first game of the season, 8-1 at historic Gill Stadium.
Hayden Herrick was on base 3 times for Central and scored their only run. He walked twice, reached on an error, and stole a base. The Grizzlies made 3 errors in the contest, and Central received 5 walks but they could not come up the big hit to get their offense going. Manchester Central left 11 runners on base in the contest.
On the other side of the ball, Goffstown got singles from Connor Hujsak and Clay Campbell to open the game. Will Soucy hit a slicing triple to the right-field corner and ultimately scored on a Central error two batters later. To start the second inning, Nate Bonacorsi crushed a double that one-hopped the fence to the left of the 366′ mark in right field. He would score when Hujsak demolished a triple to left-center field just past the 366′ mark in left. Campbell hit a sacrifice fly to straightaway left, and despite a very strong throw from Jakob Privey, Hujsak scored. Soucy singled and scored on an RBI single by Myles Green in the 3rd. Hujsak walked and later scored on a Central error in the 4th. Sebastian Beal singled and later scored on a wild pitch in the 5th.
Thomas Mulholland, a lefty, was impressive in his 2 innings of relief, striking out 4 and allowing just a bloop single that fielders decided not to catch. Central falls to 0-5 on the season, while Goffstown gets in the win column at 1-3.
Goffstown has 3 games scheduled next week.
