East Beats West In Futures Classic
The West scored three quick runs Tuesday night in the Sportsman’s Warehouse Northwest Georgia Futures Baseball All-Star Game at Dalton High School.But the East wasn’t worried.
Jones, the right-hander from Northwest Whitfield, helped silence the West’s bats with three innings of one-hit relief, Dalton’s Garren Palmer and Northwest’s Brent Stephens and Jordan Darnell slugged home runs and the East won, 10-3.
Trailing by three runs when he relieved starter Colton Kinnamon of Dalton, Jones stopped the West and when he departed after the fifth inning the East had built a 9-3 lead.
Jones was selected the game’s most valuable player. “I threw pretty good,” Jones said. “I was hitting my spots and had my slider working.”
The East, with players from Southeast, Dalton, Northwest, Calhoun and Christian Heritage, needed little time to overtake the West. The comeback was powered by home runs by Northwest’s Brent Stephens and Jordan Darnell and Dalton’s Garren Palmer.
Darnell’s two-run blast in the second cut the West lead to 3-2. Palmer, who reached on an error, scored ahead of Darnell’s homer.
