Eight seems to be the magic number when the Coffee Trojans play the Camden County Wildcats. Last week in Douglas, the Trojans defeated the Wildcats by eight in the home opener. It was another eight-run margin of victory Tuesday night in St. Marys. Coffee defeated Camden 10-2 thanks to three doubles and a triple from Eli Wood, a two-RBI and three-run performance from Hunter Klesko, and a solid four-inning outing from starter Carter McMillan.
Camden kept Coffee off the scoreboard in the first inning. That would be the only inning in which the Trojans wouldn’t score. Coffee plated two in the second, third, fourth, and sixth. The Trojans added one run each in the fifth and seventh. The Wildcats, meanwhile, could only muster a two-spot in the fourth.
Wood was 4-5 with three doubles, a triple, two RBI, and a run. Four other Trojans had two-hit games: Ben Fussell, Barrett Harrell, Taeven Harden, Klesko.
McMillan and reliever Evan Lingenfelter combined for a three-hitter and 10 total strikeouts (seven from McMillan, three from Lingenfelter).
The Trojans take the field again beginning Thursday when the first-ever Georgia-Florida Invitational begins at Charles Wilson Field in Douglas when three teams from Georgia face off against three teams from Florida, including a marquee father-son match-up Thursday evening between Coffee and Foundation Academy (Winter Garden, Fla.). Coffee head coach Scott Grove’s son, Dakoda, serves as Foundation Academy’s head coach. First pitch is scheduled for 6:30 p.m.
