Lehigh Scores Early Against East Lee County, Holds On 5-2

The Lehigh Lightning traveled to face the East Lee County Jaguars in a 7A-12 match-up Tuesday night. The Lightning built a 4-0 lead by the third inning and then held off a Jaguars rally in the fifth to hang on and win 5-2 to sweep the season series.

With two outs in the first, the Lightning (9-10, 2-5) got on the board thanks to back-to-back errors from the Jaguars. Alejandro Olivert scored the first run of the game for the Lightning, followed quickly by Alier Martinez for the second. The Lightning added to their lead with a run in each the second and third inning. First, a sacrifice hit from Ben Grant scored Tommy Montez, then Martinez made it 4-0 with his second run of the game in the third off of a sacrifice fly from Rico Peele.

Carter Pusateri started the game for the Lightning, throwing 55 pitches over four innings. He allowed two hits, no runs, and struck out one batter en route to a victory.

Facing a four-run deficit in the fifth, the Jaguars (2-17, 0-7) were finally able to get some offense going. With two men on, a sacrifice ground ball from Malachi Garcia scored Colton Stewart for the first run of the game. Garcia Dariel cut the Lightning lead in half with an RBI single, but that was all they could manage in the inning.

With the lead intact the Lightning added an insurance run in the sixth. Grant hit a ground ball past the second baseman that scored Steven Diaz from second for the 5-2 lead.

The Lightning turned to Trevor Tubbs to close out the game in the seventh. Tubbs threw 19 pitches, allowing two hits and no runs and picked up the save in his one inning of work.

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