Tiger Sharks sweep Cottondale, eye Blue Devils
The Port St. Joe Tiger Sharks varsity baseball team proved they deserved top billing in the regionals last week, as they swept the top seeded Cottondale Hornets in two straight games.
Port St. Joe (19-10) were now set to face top-seed Holmes County (24-4) on Wednesday, May 14 in the state semifinals.
In the regional semi-series, on May 8, junior Baylor Partie struck out five and walked two, giving up just five hits in hurling a seven-inning complete game shutout 2-0 of the Hornets.
St. Joe’s run in the top of the first was all they would need, as Partie bore down.
Junior Tucker Ashcraft’s solo homer was among four hits by the Tiger Sharks, with the three other singles coming off the bats of seniors Cole Williams and Peyton Knox, and sophomore Jayden Reese.
Junior Jacob Hensley pitched an equally impressive game the following night, striking out eight, walking three and allowing no earned runs over fine innings as the Tiger Sharks triumphed 13-1.
Reese, Partie and juniors Eli Godwin and Corban Butts each had two hits, with Butts banging a double and a triple. Williams and junior Eli Harris each singled as the team banged out 10 hits.
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.