Tiger Sharks run record to 9-8
Like their arch-rivals Franklin County, who they face Friday night in Eastpoint, the Port St. Joe Tiger Sharks varsity baseball team has been playing just above .500, winning four of their seven games in March.
At Wakulla Christian March 6, sophomore Jayden Reese gave up no hits and struck out eight, and junior reliever Brayden Dailey struck out two and gave up the Saints’ lone hit, as St. Joe won 9-0 in seven innings.
Junior Corban Butts had three hits, including a double and drove in two runs.
On March 7 at Sneads, the Tiger Sharks lost 9-6 to the Pirates, as they could muster just five hits.
Senior Cole Williams had two of them, and Reese, and juniors Baylor Partie and Tucker Ashcraft each had one, with Ashcraft driving in two runs.
On March 11 in Bonifay, the Tiger Sharks were shut out 10-0 in six innings, as junior Eli Harris managed the team’s lone hit.
On March 13 at home, St. Joe shut out Wakulla Christian 15-0 in four innings, as Reese and Harris combined to twirl a no-hitter.
Harris, Butts, junior Eli Godwin, senior Peyton Knox and junior Brody Mock had banged out two hits, with Harris driving in four runs and Knox two.
The team then ventured south to the Keys, where they took on Marathon March 15, and filleted the Dolphins 15-1 in five innings.
Starter junior Jacob Hensley struck out four and gave up just two hits, while Dailey closed by allowing no hits and striking out one.
Harris banged out two doubles and two singles and drove in six runs, while Godwin had three hits and three runs batted in.
On March 17, St. Joe was on the losing end of an 18-8 score, as Harris had three hits, including a double and one RBI, Partie had a double and single and two RBI and Reese had two hits.
On Friday at home, the Tiger Sharks won 7-5 in seven innings over the Edgewood Academy Wildcats.
Butts had two hits, including a double and two RBI, while Knox drove in two runs.
Meet the Editor
David Adlerstein, The Apalachicola Times’ digital editor, started with the news outlet in January 2002 as a reporter.
Prior to then, David Adlerstein began as a newspaperman with a small Boston weekly, after graduating magna cum laude from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. He later edited the weekly Bellville Times, and as business reporter for the daily Marion Star, both not far from his hometown of Columbus, Ohio.
In 1995, he moved to South Florida, and worked as a business reporter and editor of Medical Business newspaper. In Jan. 2002, he began with the Apalachicola Times, first as reporter and later as editor, and in Oct. 2020, also began editing the Port St. Joe Star.