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The Lord Botetourt boys will have a tough opening game when the Region 3D baseball tournament opens Thursday. The Cavaliers are the eighth seed in the eight-team tournament and they’ll travel to Abingdon to take on the top-seeded Falcons.
“They are 19-2 and have had another great year,” said LB coach Todd Smith. “We’ll need to play one of our better games if we want to advance. Hopefully we can get the bats going again and play solid defense and see what happens.”
The Cavs are an even 11-11 after falling to Franklin County, 7-2, in the semifinal round of the Blue Ridge District tournament last week. Garrett Lonker, Swisher Cook and Jackson Crenshaw split time on the mound for LB while Beau Lonker drove in both Cavalier runs.
“We had a couple chances to score some runs but couldn’t get that clutch hit that was needed,” said Smith.
