Rockabillys Survive Late Bees Rally to Move to 2-0 on Road Stretch

JACKSON, TENN. – The Jackson Rockabillys improved to 7-2 on the season with a 5-3 victory over the Burlington Bees in the first game of a two-game series.

The Rockabillys benefited by the Bees' three errors, all of which proved to be extremely costly for the Bees and extremely beneficial for the Goats. These errors helped the Rockabillys jump out to an early lead in the second inning and add on another run to their total in the ninth which would eventually help put the game away. 

The Rockabillys jumped out to a 3-0 lead in the second inning courtesy of a monster home run blast from infielder Stan King, the Rockabillys' first homer of the young season. The lead was increased to 4-0 off an RBI single from Trey Racherbaumer before the Bees put their first run of the game on the board to trim the deficit back to three. 

The Bees then tacked on another run in the fifth inning to cut the Goats' lead in half, and there were no runs again until the eighth inning when Burlington's Skyler Agnew cashed in on an RBI triple to narrow the Rockabillys' lead to one going into the ninth inning.

The Goats' offense managed to prop the lead back up in the final inning as another Burlington error came back to bite them as Gavin Arsenau reached first and subsequently advanced to second on a throwing error by Skyler Agnew, which led to King advancing to third and designated hitter Caden Contant scoring to put the Goats up 5-3.

From there, closer Jaxson Lucas, who has been lights-out all year thus far, came in and shut down the Bees offense for the last half-inning, leading to the Rockabillys' third consecutive win.

The Goats will get another look at the Bees as the two teams take the field again tomorrow at 6:30 PM CDT.