After a tough opening- round 9-0 loss at the hands of the C-4 tournament’s second seed Wilber, the South Central Juniors, the seventh seed in the tournament, rallied back in the loser’s bracket of the tournament, Saturday, July 8, to earn their third win of the 2023 season, improving to 3-10 with a 9-1 dominating win against the Wymore/ Diller-Odell Juniors in Hebron.
South Central outhit Wymore 5-0, as Cody Funk pitched a no-hit gem.
Funk had seven strikeouts in the win, while allowing just one Wymore run. Funk only issued two walks in the no-hit performance through five innings.
South Central and Wymore set at a 2-1 South Central lead after three innings of play, before runs by Josh Spray and Alex Watts gave the guys in blue a 4-1 lead.
Wyatt Hemberger added a run in the fifth, before South Central scored four runs in the bottom of the sixth inning, as Livgren, Funk, Dayne Clark and Hemberger all scored, eventually gaining South Central the 9-1 win.