Barons baseball surging

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Barons baseball surging

After rocky start, B-CC is putting together wins in bunches

by James Peters | Staff Writer

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After struggling out of the gate to open the season, the Bethesda-Chevy Chase baseball teams appears to be turning a corner. Especially after an impressive 3-2 win over Damascus Saturday afternoon pushed the team’s record to 5-6 heading into this week.

‘‘We’ve been playing well,” said first-year Barons coach Jonas Singer. ‘‘We started 1-5 and have gone 4-1, and we end with five more games. We want to beat Walter Johnson and Whitman, our Bethesda rivals, and we’ve been preparing all season to make a run in the playoffs. We are deep in pitching and play good defense. Hopefully, we can make some noise in the state playoffs.”

Leading the team’s resurgence has been senior pitcher⁄first baseman Austin Ziskie, who threw a complete-game, two-hitter in the win against Damascus (7-4). He’s also one of the team’s top hitters. Also competing well for the Barons are third baseman Jake Boross, shortstop Tyler Henry and catcher Alex Cole, the team’s leadoff hitter, who is batting around .450 for the season.

‘‘We started off rough, not hitting the ball, but we’ve strung together some pretty solid games the last two weeks,” said Singer.

B-CC has dropped two one-run games, including a 6-5 setback to Clarksburg (8-3) last week on a walk-off double by Josh Creighton. B-CC also fell to Poolesville, 5-4, April 16 and it owns a trio of one-run wins against Einstein (5-4 score), Seneca Valley (11-10) and Damascus.