Dover’s Voth gets 200th career win
DOVER BASEBALL coach Pete Voth holds a bat commemorating his 200th career baseball victory, which he earned last weekend when the Longhorns downed Drummond. [Photo provided]
Dover bounced back from its most lopsided loss of the season to one of Class A’s best teams to win the consolation championship of the Ripley Tournament.
Along the way, head coach Pete Voth earned his 200th career victory.
That came Friday when the Longhorns downed Class A No. 10 Drummond 8-4 in the consolation semifinals.
They followed it up Saturday with a 4-2 victory against Class B’s No. 7 Asher. That wrapped up the regular season for Dover, which is ranked fifth in Class B.
The Longhorns will host a Class B district tournament starting this Thursday. Shidler and Frontier will join the Longhorns for the double-elimination tournament.
Canute, ranked second in Class A, sent Dover into the consolation bracket in a 15-1 decision on Thursday. Bryce Cockayne and Brennan Fletcher combined to slow down Drummond’s bats the following day to help deliver Voth, now in his second year at Dover, his benchmark victory.
Cockayne got the win with four innings of work.
He gave up three hits and three runs with only one being earned.
Fletcher gave up one unearned run without surrendering a hit over the final three frames.
The top of the order was big for Dover as Cockayne, Brok Cooper and Trypp Lack combined for six of Dover’s hits.
All three batters had two hits and 1 RBI apiece.
Cooper also scored twice while Cockayne and Lack both scored a run.
Casen Buck drove in two runs with his lone hit, a twoout single in the bottom of the first that put Dover on the board.
The Longhorns added four more in the second as Cockayne and Cooper had back-to-back run-scoring hits and Lack an RBI groundout.
Drummond cut its deficit in half, but Dover added back to it with Hunter Miller’s RBI single in the fifth. Dover added more insurance in the sixth.
Lack went the distance in Saturday’s fifth-place game.
He gave up two hits and one earned run while striking out four.
The Indians didn’t score until the bottom of the seventh.
By that time, Dover had already posted four runs.
Half of them came in the second inning.
Buck delivered a one-out double and later scored on a passed ball.
Miller also drove in a run with a hit in the frame.
It stayed 2-0 until the seventh inning.
Dover loaded the bases with a single and two walks before Ivan Ruiz picked up an RBI by reaching on a fielder’s choice.
Two batters later, Fletcher walked with the bases loaded to add another run.