Alba-Golden loses last two games in bidistrict series with Lindale-Kildare

Posted 5/13/21

The Alba-Golden Panthers had their 2020-21 baseball campaign cut short by Linden-Kildare in a three-game series in the initial post-season round of play at Gladewater last week.

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Alba-Golden loses last two games in bidistrict series with Lindale-Kildare

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The Alba-Golden Panthers had their 2020-21 baseball campaign cut short by Linden-Kildare in a three-game series in the initial post-season round of play at Gladewater last week.

The series featured an absolute jewel of a pitching competition between Alba-Golden’s Landon Green and Linden-Kildare’s Mason Johnson in game one Friday. The two hurlers offered complete games. Green gave up only four hits on the evening, while Johnson threw a one-hitter in defeat. 

The game was scoreless going into the sixth, when Boedy Baker reached on a fielder’s choice. Jaydon Green cracked a double which scored Baker and proved to be the winning run in the game-one Alba-Golden win.

In the second game of the double-header, Linden-Kildare came out swinging. They put up six runs in the first and added one in the sixth to cruise to the win.

The Panthers mustered three runs in the third inning and added a single tally in the seventh, but fell in game two 7-4.

Each squad recorded 10 hits, including four by Panther Chelton Cook and two each by Baker and Kason Trimble. Aaron Graham threw a complete game for Alba-Golden.

Linden-Kildare knocked the Panthers out of post-season play by securing game three by an identical score, 7-4, the following day.

The final three innings proved decisive after Alba-Golden took a 3-2 lead in the first.

Linden-Kildare tied it at three each in the second, and it remained tied after each team scored once in the fourth.

But Linden-Kildare pulled ahead with a run in the fifth and added two more in the seventh.

Alba-Golden had five hits to go with five errors, while Linden-Kildare had eight hits and two errors.