Zac Haddox returns for his Senior season for the TCHS Baseball team
The Tucker County Baseball team will open their season on Tuesday March 30th at Tygarts Valley for a Varsity and JV contest.
Second year head coach Josh Evans is optimistic about this year’s team saying, “I am hoping to turn things around this year, and I think we have a shot of having a winning season.” There are some key players returning for this year; Senior Zac Haddox returns from his 2nd team All PVC team selection last year. Haddox will pitch and play several other positions; Sophomore Justin Fike was a 2nd team All PVC team selection and will handle the catcher duties plus more; Senior Landon Dillard will help the team with speed in the outfield and a good bat. Players that make up the team are as follows: Seniors, Zac Haddox, Landon Dillard, Daniel Gilgenast, Thomas Evans, Derek Zirk, Thomas Evans, Danny Goss, and Seth Underwood. Juniors, Timmy Kemphfer. Zack Freeman, Aiden Bunnell, Andrew Bennett, Skyler Humphrey, Antonio Smith, Seth Michael, Eric McCrum and Kyle Stemple. Sophomores, Justin Fike, Branden Wratchford, Quinn Buckley, Kendall Gooden, Slayer Liller, Gary Meloy, Jacob Cousin, Josh Freeman, Jarred Johnson and Garrett Carrico. Freshman, Jordan Moss, Conner Nestor, John Gherman, Wesley Snyder and Austin Evers. There are also 10 JV games on the schedule for this season.
The schedule is similar to the past few years. Tucker County competes in the PVC conference where the competition is solid every game. “The PVC Conference is loaded; there is always a PVC team at the State Tournament every year”, said Evans. The Mt. Lions will play games with Moorefield, East Hardy, Pendleton County, Union, Trinity, Keyser, Phillip-Barbour, Pocahontas County, Southern, East Hardy, Paw Paw, Preston and South Harrison.
Come out and support this Mt. Lion team as they open their season this week. Check out the full schedule listed and as always follow all Tucker County Sports at TuckerCountySports.Com.
