2 blown leads lead to 2 L’s for baseball team

The CHS baseball team had two good shots to win a baseball game last week, but one bad inning in each game cost the team a chance for its second win of the year.

The Bulldogs lost to Foxboro 10-5 and North Attleboro 9-3, falling to 1-15 on the season.

They were also hurt by the news that starting pitcher Mike Hallett will be lost for the rest of the season with a knee injury.

On Wednesday, starting pitcher Joey Wilkinson, who was coming off a hip injury, pitched well before tiring in the sixth inning, where he gave up eight runs. Prior to that, Canton had built a 5-2 lead, paced by junior Tom Nickel’s two-run homerun. Junior Kevin Rooney also had a good day at the plate with two hits and two runs scored.

With Hallett injured, Nickel started Thursday and pitched well over the first three innings. But the Rocketeers exploded for seven runs on five hits as Nickel struggled with a pinched nerve that flared up on him, according to head coach Tom Healy, who described Nickel’s status after the game as day to day.

Canton was limited to four hits with Matt Bernstein driving in a run with a hit.

“We were disappointed this week because in these two games we played some good baseball, but we had one bad inning and it cost us,” Healy said. “We are a young team, but I give these kids a lot of credit. They are showing up to play hard every day.”

The Bulldogs now enter the last two weeks of the regular season with only one game this week — home versus Stoughton on May 17 — followed by three road games in four days against King Philip, Wayland, and Abington.

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Posted by Mike Berger on May 20 2010. Filed under High School, Sports. Both comments and pings are currently closed.