Lewisville jumps on Great Falls early in baseball win

The Lewisville Lions hit two long balls and got six shutout innings from Drew Colvin to defeat the Great Falls Red Devils 9-0 Thursday night in Richburg.

The home team came out of the gates swinging the bats in the first inning and put up a four-spot right away. That coupled with Colvin's ability to pitch out of trouble in the first two frames set the tone the rest of the way.

Denver Mosley had the big three-run bomb over the left field fence after base hits by Drew Stewart and Trey Keels. Mosley swung out of his shoes on the first two pitches and nearly decapitated his head coach Billy Keels, who hit the deck while coaching third base, on another. Mosley finally unloaded - this time inside the foul line - to make it 3-0 Lions. Andrew Culp added an RBI single with two outs to make it 4-0.

Lewisville did not get a hit between the first and fifth innings, but then the bats woke up again. The Lions added three in the fifth, the big hit a two-run homer that Alex Reed golfed high down the right field line and over the scoreboard for his first varsity home run.

"I felt good during BP," Reed said. "I felt really good. He gave me one on the inner third and I took advantage of it. It felt really good off the bat."

Keels had a two-out, seeing-eye single up the middle in the sixth to drive in the last two Lewisville runs and give him three RBI for the night.

Turning point

The Lions jumped on Great Falls right out of the chute with four first-inning runs and maintained from there. The Red Devils missed an opportunity to make an early statement in the top of the first when they could not get the big hit with two out and two on to score the first runs of the game. They could not convert in the same situation in the second, and Colvin got another inning-ending strikeout in the fourth after a two-out Aaron Blackmon triple to the right-field corner.

Critical

Mosley was in an 0-2 hole before he launched his tone-setting blast over the left field fence.

"The first pitch I was looking for a fast-ball," Mosley said. "He kind of fooled me on the curveball, but I battled back and he left a change-up high and inside."

Also, not only did Colvin strike out eight for the Lions, but he had good control and did not walk a batter, making the Great Falls hitters earn whatever they would get.

Star contributors

Colvin allowed no runs on six hits, while striking out eight and walking none. Keels was 3-for-4 with 3 RBI, and Reed was 2-for-2. Pierce Funderburk was 2-for-3 for the Red Devils.

Overheard

"In practice they both him 'em out," Keels said of Mosley and Reed. "I think Denver hit two or three last year, but we hadn't hit a home run yet as a team and this is our eighth game."

"We're going to the beach next week to play a bunch of bigger schools," Keels said of next week's Spring Break tournament at Myrtle Beach. "We hope when we come back we'll be better as a team and have even better chemistry than we have now and make a run at it."

On deck

Lewisville will travel to Myrtle Beach next week for a tournament over Spring Break. Great Falls will also be in a tournament at Socastee next week.

Box score

Lewisville 9 Great Falls 0

GF;0;0;0;0;0;0;0; - 0;6;2

Lew;4;0;0;0;3;2;x; - 9;9;0

Drew Colvin and Trey Keels. Drew Beaver and Koby Ruff. WP - Colvin. LP - Beaver. 3B - Aaron Blackmon (GF). HR - Denver Mosley, Alex Reed (Lew). Leading hitters: Lew - Trey Keels 3-4, 3 RBI, R; Reed 2-2, HBP, 2 RBI, 2 R; Jack Jordan 1-1, R. GF - Pierce Funderburk 2-3; Blackmon 1-2, 3B; Ty Beaver 1-2, BB. Records - Lewisville 7-1, 4-1 Region 3-A; Great Falls 3-5, 2-3.

This story was originally published March 25, 2016 at 10:23 AM with the headline "Lewisville jumps on Great Falls early in baseball win."