Jackets get 2 shutouts, 2 Daugherty bombs in baseball openers

Two wins.

Two shutouts.

That’s how Kingfisher’s 2021 baseball season got started on Tuesday.

KHS blanked Seminole 7-0 in its season opener, then followed it up with a 10-0 run-rule win in District 4A-1 contests at Homier Field.

Brady Friesen was credited with the initial win of the season as he struck out 10 Chieftains over six innings.

The left-hander allowed just four hits and walked two before Cade Stephenson closed it out in the seventh.

Stephenson added another strikeout to the total.

The Jackets had only five hits, but found multiple ways to score.

T.J. Parker delivered the first RBI of the season, a sacrifice fly in the first that scored Tate Taylor.

In the second, it was Friesen’s groundout that pushed home a run and Mason Snider later scored on a passed ball.

Stephenson tripled in the third and scored on Ian Daugherty’s groundout for a 4-0 advantage.

In the fifth, Isiah Medellin’s single scored Slade Snodgrass.

Medellin scored on a passed ball and Will Taylor an error to round out the scoring.

Caleb Dick was 2 for 3 with a double in the game.

Daugherty provided offensive fireworks in the nightcap.

Just hours before he started for the KHS basketball team in the 4A state semifinals, he slammed two home runs to spark the second win.

The initial shot was a solo blast in the bottom of the first.

His two-run round-tripper in the second brought home Stephenson, who earlier singled.

Snider had an RBI single and an RBI double in the nine-run second.

Medellin, Will Tayor and Tate Barton also delivered RBIs in the frame.

The Jackets had 13 hits total.

Medellin and Snider joined Daugherty in collecting two apiece.

On the mound, Tate Taylor pitched three innings and gave up two hits while striking out five.

Daugherty threw the final two innings and also struck out five without allowing a hit or walk.