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The Highlands Baseball team completed its best finish in school history, after falling in the state-title game to West Jessamine (Nicholasville) last Saturday in Lexington. While the team wasn’t able to bring home the school’s first baseball title, they put up some impressive numbers and turned the corner of the program.

According to Manager, Jeremy Baioni, the team will be in the state record books for the following:

Offensively:

Runs Scored – 344. Minimum to get in is 325.

Hits in a Season – 440. Minimum to get in is 375.

Team Batting Avg – .375. Minimum to get in is .375.

Defensively:

Season Shutouts – 13. Minimum to get in is 10.

Consecutive Shutouts – 5. The actual state record is 5 and the team tied that number with 5.

Another impressive stat: the team did not get shutout all year.

HITTING STATS (Minimum 60 Plate Appearances)

# – Player. Plate Appearances, Runs, At Bats, Hits, Singles, Doubles, Triples, Home Runs, RBI, Average, Walks

44 Todd Ramey 158 55 128 65 35 19 4 7 60 0.508 22
11 Brady Murray 137 34 115 37 26 5 3 0 17 0.322 9
5 Donnie Mills 134 20 119 45 31 8 0 6 33 0.378 9
21 Joseph Martin 130 32 108 49 31 11 0 7 34 0.454 15
4 Jake Whitford 121 33 107 50 34 9 2 5 46 0.467 11
20 Conner Kreeger 119 40 97 33 25 5 1 0 18 0.340 12
10 Grayson Heck 112 22 97 29 24 3 0 0 11 0.299 8
13 Luke Hennigan 98 0 81 24 20 2 1 0 11 0.296 8
6 Alex Veneman 92 28 85 27 19 3 3 0 11 0.318 3
32 Kenny Ball 70 5 62 23 21 1 1 0 13 0.371 4
27 Mark Walkenhorst 62 14 50 18 15 3 0 0 11 0.360 5

 PITCHING STATS (Minimum 30 Innings Pitched) Record, saves, innings pitched, ERA, Strikeouts

24 Ricky Raisor (9-1, 2 saves) 55.00 1.27 65
2 Mitchell Jones (8-3) 55.00 2.67 58
34 Ethan Doty (3-0, 1 save) 38.00 1.47 49
15 Lou Bunning (5-1) 37.00 6.62 29

21 Joseph Martin (4-1, 1 save) 35.00 1.40 38

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