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No bad luck for Dolphins

Jason Thompson/Gulf Breeze News Ben Lively throws to the plate during the Dolphins' 4-3 win Friday over West Florida. The Gulf Breeze Dolphin baseball team, struggling on offense all season, got several clutch hits in the middle innings to give them a 4-3, come-frombehind win over West Florida Friday in Gulf Breeze.

Down 3-0 after two and a half innings, the Dolphins (5- 4, 2-3 in District 1-4A) tied the game with three in the fourth before scoring the eventual game-winning run in the fifth.

Ben Lively, who walked two and gave up a base hit in the first inning (allowing the Jaguars to score twice), walked one and struck out seven over the final six innings, including all three batters he faced in the seventh.

West Florida took advantage of a fielding error to score twice in the top of the first. The Jags were looking for more, but left two on base. Two more errors in the third inning helped West Florida take a 3-0 lead before a diving catch by first baseman Alex Ball got the Dolphins out of the inning.

After Lively threw a sixpitch fourth inning, the Dolphin offense tied the game. Caleb Brown led the inning off by reaching on an error. With the hit and run on, Kris Matsoukas laced a single to right field. Stephen Robbins followed with a double to score Brown before Matsoukas scored on a wild pitch. Tyler Boylan followed with a single to score Robbins.

Joe Culpepper/Gulf Breeze News Kris Matsoukas backhands a ball in a recent Dolphin game. Robin Hoffpauir, who had two hits in the win, doubled to lead off the fifth inning. Ball walked before Corey Downs' single scored Hoffpauir.

Milton 4, Dolphins 3

The Dolphins left the potential tying and winning runs on base in the seventh and made four baserunning mistakes in a loss to the Panthers March 10.

A pair of fielding error in the first inning allowed the Panthers to take a 3-0 lead in the top of the first. They were the only runs allowed by starting pitcher Luke Crooke, who struck out three and allowed only four hits in six innings.

The Dolphins got on the board in the fourth inning when Brown reached on a fielder's choice and scored when Stephen Robbins reached on a fielder's choice. Milton added one in the top of the seventh before GBHS tacked on two more in the bottom of the seventh.

Robbins doubled with one out before Ben Lively walked. Patrick Vance and Robin Hoffpauir both hit run scoring singles before the game ended with a strikeout.

The Dolphins were called out stealing twice and were picked off of bases on two other occasions.

Starkville (Miss.) 9, Dolphins 1

The Yellow Jackets hit four home runs as they scored the game's first seven runs Saturday in Gulf Breeze.

A two-out error and a single allowed Starkville to take a 1-0 second inning lead. The Yellow Jackets hit back-to-back homers in a three run third and added a two-run homer in their three-run fourth.

GBHS scored their lone run in the fifth inning when Patrick Vance led off with a single and scored on a Downs single. Downs had two hits in the loss.

Ball pitched two-plus innings, allowing five hits and striking out two. Jackson Yates and Trey Davis both pitched two innings in relief, while Ratte pitched the seventh.

Shane Pascoe had his first base hit of the season in the loss, a one-out single in the third.

Milton JV 6, Dolphins 3

The Panthers scored six unanswered runs after GBHS took a 1-0 lead in the first inning on March 10.

Anthony Stancher went 2-for-4 and scored once, while Jase Brown scored twice. Michael Mann hit a two-run single in the loss.

West Florida JV 10, Dolphins 0

Stancher had two of Gulf Breeze's four hits in a loss at West Florida Friday.

Brown singled in the third, while Colin Davies doubled in the second for the Dolphins' only other hits.

Dolphin JV 5,

Starkville (Miss.) 4

Mann's two-run single in the bottom of the seventh was the difference as Gulf Breeze edged Starkville.

Alec Purser had two hits, while Taylor Webb singled and scored once.

Dallas Biederman pitched the seventh inning in relief of Mitch Yano, who allowed only two hits and struck out five in the first six innings.

Dolphin ninth grade 1, Milton 1 Kyle McGee double to drive in Emerson Diaz as the Dolphins (4-5-1) salvaged a time-limit tie with the Panthers March 10.

Tate ninth grade 10, Dolphins 4

Cameron Davies went 2-for-3 and scored twice, while Mitchell deKozan and McGee both hit base hits in a loss to Tate.

Dolphin ninth grade 18, Escambia 3

deKozan and McGee both went 3-for-3 and scored twice in a blowout win over Escambia.

Diaz went 2-for-4 and scored twice, while Andrew Jurnovoy scored three times. Trey Baker and Weston Demotts both scored twice.

Dolphin ninth grade 7, Tate 1

Baker went 5-for-5 and scored twice, while Max McDaniel went 2-for-4 in a win over Tate.

Escambia ninth grade 8, Dolphins 4

Davies doubled twice, while McDaniel had two singles in a loss to Escambia.