Jackets sweep Berrien; win streak now at 19

By Editor | June 12, 2024 |

Jeff Davis High’s baseball team extended its win streak to 19 games last week as they swept a 3-game series with Berrien 13-0, 5-0 and 4-0.
The Yellow Jackets enter the 2024 GHSA State Playoffs with a 19-7 record and host Westside of Augusta (11-12) in the first round Thursday.
Andrew White and Treyton Webster combined for a 4-hit shutout in the opening game played in Nashville, Alex Mason hurled a no-hitter in the second game, and Colby Beach threw a 1-hitter in the finale.
In a rare start on the mound for White in the opener, the junior left-hander went six innings, giving up four hits, walking one and striking out nine. Webster threw the final inning, retiring the Rebels in order with two strikeouts.
Mason’s no-hitter in the second game was masterful as he walked only one batter and fanned 13.
Beach’s outing in the final game may have been his best performance of the season as he walked a pair of batters and struck out a season high 14.
The Jackets continued to swing the bats well has they had 29 hits in the three games, 14 coming in the 13-0 opening win.
In the opener in Nashville, JD started slowly and led only 3-0 after two innings. But they scored three in the sixth and seven in the seventh to win easily.
Mason’s run-scoring double got the Jackets on the board in the first and Webster drove in another run on a fielder’s choice.
Hayden Turner singled in a run in the second.
Three Jackets scored in the sixth on Carter Mullis’ single and a Rebel error.
Jeff Davis blew things wide open in the top of the seventh as Duke Stone drove in three runs with a bases-loaded double. Mason drove in Stone with a single and Webster and Beach followed with RBI doubles to make it 13-0.
Mason topped the Jackets’ 14-hit attack with three singles, a double and two RBI. Eli Saunders had a single and a pair of doubles, Beach had a single, a double and two RBI, Stone had a double and three RBI, Mullis had two singles and two RBI, Webster had a double and two RBI, and Turner had a single and an RBI.
In the second game, played in Hazlehurst, JD jumped out to a 4-0 lead in the first inning. Mullis had an RBI single and Kamo Munsayac had a bases-loaded triple in the inning.
The Jackets sat on their 4-0 lead until the fourth when Turner singled in a run to make it 5-0.
Munsayac had a single, a triple and three RBI to lead Jeff Davis at the plate. Turner had a pair of singles and an RBI, Stone doubled, Mullis had a single and an RBI, and Holden Ellis and Jackson Sayer both singled.
In the final game, Mullis and Webster had back-to-back singles to give the Jackets a 1-0 after two innings.
Meanwhile, Beach fanned seven of the first nine batters he faced and, after giving up a 1-out single in the fourth, he fanned the next two batters.
Turner led off the bottom of the fourth with a triple and Stone followed with a 2-run homer to make it 3-0. With two outs in the inning, Jude Worthington walked and Beach triple to center to make it 4-0.
The Jackets had seven hits, led by Turner with a double and a triple. Webster had a pair of singles and an RBI, Beach had a triple and an RBI. Stone homered and drove in two runs, and Mullis singled.
Score by innings:
JDHS 2 1 0 0 0 3 7 -13
BHS 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 – 0