May 9, 2016 - The Center Roughriders varsity baseball team saw their 2016 playoff run come to and end when they fell to the Hudson Hornets on the road 4-3, on Friday, and fell again on Saturday, at home by a 7-1 margin. Both games were extra inning affairs. Friday's game went eight frames and Saturday's game was 11 innings.
In Friday's contest, Hornet Jessie Cravy proved to be a big difference maker. He hit safely for two doubles and a single, and pitched all eight innings, striking out 14 Roughrider batters.
'Rider Jaxon Covington pitched 7 2/3 innings and struck out eight HHS batters. Teammate Logan Mitchell came into the game late, as a pinch-hitter, and delivered an RBI hit which helped send the game into extra innings.
Hudson out hit Center 9-5 during the game.
On Saturday, the game remained tied at 1-1 for 10 innings, until Hudson scored six unearned runs to take a 7-1 lead in the top of the Eleventh inning.
Center ended the year with a 13-9-1 regular season mark.
