New Palestine High School

Jacob Morris pitched a six-inning no-hitter Saturday, leading the New Palestine baseball team to a 10-0 victory over Lebanon and the championship of the Lebanon Tournament. Morris struck out 11 batters and walked one in his gem, leading the Dragons to back-to-back titles in the tournament. He faced the minimum, as the lone Tiger who reached - a one-out walk in the second inning - was immediately erased by a doubleplay. Earlier in the day, the Dragons beat Ben Davis 7-1 to advance to the final. In the title game, the Dragons took the lead in the second inning when Wyatt Mathies, Jace Jaques and Henry Thorpe loaded the bases on two singles and a walk. Adam Rickey drove in a run with a sacrifice fly, and an error on the play brought home a second run and moved Thorpe to third, where he scored on Morris' sacrifice fly. The Dragons made it 6-0 in the fourth, with two errors putting runners on base for Rickey to plate one with a single. After a base hit by Morris, Jackson Kamp drilled a two-run single to right. Another three-run inning followed in the fifth, with an error, single and walk loading the bases. Two runs scored on an error and another on a sacrifice fly by Morris. NP invoked the mercy rule in the sixth on Landon Ballard's RBI single. Mathies led the Dragons' nine-hit attack, going 2-for-4 with three runs. Kamp was 2-for-3 with two RBI. Jaques, Ballard, Thorpe, Rickey and Morris all had hits. Rickey drove in three runs and Morris two. All nine hits were singles. In the semifinal, Rigg Mahurin and Rickey combined to allow one run in the 7-1 victory over ben Davis. Mahurin earned the win, scattering three hits, one run and striking out eight in five innings. Rickey fanned two and allowed one hit in two innings of relief. Mahurin led the Dragons' eight-hit attack, going 3-for-3 with a double - the Dragons' lone extra-base hit on the day - a run and an RBI. Nic Deering drove in three runs. He, Morris, Ben Hirschy, Mathies and Jaques had hits. The Dragons surrendered a run in the first, but immediately knotted the game up in the bottom of the inning when Morris singled and scored on an errant pickoff throw. NP took a 3-1 lead in the second, as Mahurin led off with a single and Gavin Neal followed with a walk. With two outs, a wild pitch scored one run and Neal came home on a bases-loaded walk drawn by Deering. In the fourth, Mathies led off with a single and scored on Rickey's sacrifice fly to extend the lead to 4-1. Another run came home in the fifth when Kamp reached on a two-out error and scored on Mahurin's double. Deering made it 7-1 with a two-run single in the sixth. The Dragons improved to 6-1 on the season with the victory. They next play Tuesday at Mt. Vernon.