Prep Baseball Report

Catholic Rocket Showcase: Diamond vs Prospects



By: Zac Bottoms
Arkansas Scouting Director

The annual Rocket Classic is hosted by Catholic High School on a yearly basis and consist of some of the top teams from around the state.

Diamond Baseball Mercado 2 vs Arkansas Prospects Menard 7

The Arkansas Prospects Menard defeated Diamond Baseball Mercado 7-2 Thursday afternoon at Little Rock. The game was the pitchers dual through four innings as 2016 RHP Gavin Heletmes (Prospects) and 2016 RHP Austin Allen (Diamond) kept both teams at bay.

The Prospects scored first, in the bottom of the 3rd when 2017 MIF Casey Martin got things going with a triple to drive home 2016 C Trent Swaim who reached on a fielder’s choice. Martin scored on a groundball to second by 2016 OF Zac Langston, to leave the score 2-0 after 3 innings.

Diamond answered in the top of the 4th when 2016 OF Zac Walker drove in 2016 MIF Joe Myers, who reached on a single. Allen bounced back and record the side in order leaving the score at 2-1 after four innings.

In the 5th the Prospects erupted for 5 runs on 6 hits, highlighted by a Langston 2 RBI single and 2016 C Greyson Pinkett RBI Double. Allen was relieved by 2016 LHP Jake Pinson who worked out of a jam by striking out the final two hitters of the inning.

Heltemes was relieved by 2016 RHP Christian Goshen after 5 1/3 innings of work, to get out of a 2 on 1-out jam. Before Heltemes was relieved 2016 C J.Paul Fullerton scored on a Myers sac fly to centerfield. The sac fly finished the scoring a 7-2.

Offensively Diamond received a strong day from 2016 MIF Luke Van Dover who went 2-for-3. The Prospects had four players with multi-hit games including Martin, Langston, 2016 RHP/MIF Blake Wynn and Pinkett.

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