Kingston baseball opens season with wins

Kingston blasted its way to a pair of District 3A-8 run rules before falling to longtime powerhouse Roff in the opening week of the 2024 baseball campaign.

The Redskins were 14-0 and 11-1 victors against Tishomingo but fell in the week’s finale to Roff by a 7-6 margin.

It was all Kingston in the season-opening 14-0 win as the Redskins plated five runs in the first inning and never looked back.

Brock Rumer had a leadoff single before a plethora of walks as Kingston sent 11 batters to the plate. Four more free passes added another run in the second with singles from Rumer, Rhett Coble and Ewan Weaver tacking on two more tallies in the third frame.

A six-run fifth inning put it away early on the run rule with Reid Patterson, Blane Henry, Hayden Seeney, Ethan Mowles, Jacksyn Martin and Rumer stringing together consecutive hits.

Brady Greene tossed five scoreless frames on the mound, scattering four hits while striking out six to record the pitching victory.

Rumer notched three hits and Mowles added two in pacing the offensive charge.

Game two was much the same as Kingston scored in all but one inning, racing to a 4-0 advantage after the first stanza. Weaver tripled in the initial run and Patterson also contributed a RBI double during the early uprising. Coble and Seeney chipped in singles.

Tishomingo scored its lone run in the second frame but the Redskins countered with two tallies, making the most of a Martin single, free pass and two Indian miscues.

Lander Burkhalter’s double led to a lone Kingston run in the third and he also contributed a two-run double in the fifth with Coble ending it early with an RBI double.

Coble and Burkhalter led theoffensewithtwohitseach. Weaver and Patterson both had one hit and drove in two. Greene, Seeney and Martin each ended with one hit.

Seeney struck out nine in three innings on the mound, yielding one unearned run on two hits. Henry also pitched in two frames of no-hit ball in which he fanned three batters.

KingstonspottedRoffa3-0 lead through three innings of the week’s finale before rallying to tie the game in the fourth, getting just one hit on a Rumer single. Weaver doubled home a pair in the sixth for a brief edge before the Tigers plated three in the bottom of the stanza.

The Redskins had one final chance in the seventh, loading the bases ahead of a Weaver single but that proved to be all for the Kingston rally.

Weaver and Coble posted two hits apiece as Rumer and Patterson both added one.

Burkhalter, Henry and Rumer all saw pitching duty and were tagged for runs as they combined to allow eight hits with one strikeout and two walks.