South Charlotte Panthers

PERFECT GAME WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS / JUPITER

The SCP 2012 completed their season with a 3-1 record at the Perfect Game World Championships in Jupiter, Florida. The Cat pitchers were dominant and the defense played well in giving up only 3 runs in four games of pool play which was the second least in the tournament. The offense never got untracked for the Panthers and in the team's lone loss to the Mizuno Puerto Ricans we were no hit.

Game 1

SC Panthers  2012       5                             5.....4.....2

PG Vegas Gold             1                                1.....3.....2

Winning pitcher Ty Buttrey hit 94 on the radar guns and pitched 5 innings of 1 hit baseball to get the Panthers off to a fast start with a 5-1 victory. Ty and catcher Andrew MacLatchie were featured on the PG video of day 2 morning action listed on the PG web site. MIF Kirk Morgan got the team off to a fast start with a first pitch of the game double and subsequent run scored.

Winning Pitcher: Ty Buttrey (8-1)  5IP; 1H; 3K; 0R. Save: Michael Herbert (5) 2IP; 2H; 2K; 1R.

Leading Hitters: Martin Koon 2-3 (RBI). Kirk Morgan 1-3 (2B). Ty Buttrey 1-3 (RS). 

Game 2

SC Panthers  2012       2                              2.....3.....1

Royals Scout Team       0                               0.....2.....0

Hitting 91 on the PG radar guns Trent Thornton shut out the pre tournament pool favorite Royals Scout Team with a complete game victory. He gave up 2 hits while striking out 9 and walking 0. With the victory Trent took his season record to 11-0 which set an SCP single season record for number of wins without a loss. 1B Kyle Whitman led off the third with a single and came around to score the only run needed on a Colby Barnette RBI single. 

Winning Pitcher: Trent Thornton (11-0)  7IP; 2H; 9K; 0R.

Leading Hitters: Kirk Morgan 1-2. Kyle Whitman 1-3. Colby Barnette 1-3 (RBI). 

Game 3

SC Panthers  2012               0                          0.....0.....0 

Mizuno Puerto Rico            2                           2.....3.....0

The Panthers were no hit for the first time in SCP history by the Pool A winners Mizuno Puerto Rico. Cat starting pitcher Brody Koerner matched the Mizuno arms through the fourth when they capitalized on an infield single; base on balls and the only hard hit of the game to take a 2-0 lead which would hold up for the victory. Koerner struck out 8 for a career total of 222 Ks; which broke the all time SCP career record. Brad Stone finished the game for the Panthers with 2 innings of no hit ball while hitting 88 on the PG radar guns.

Losing Pitcher: Brody Koerner (5-1)  5IP; 3H; 8K; 2R.

Game 4

SC Panthers   2012              5                           5.....5.....1

S. Fl. Bandits                          0                           0.....3.....0

Cameron Tekker; Brian Donovan and Jake Cochrane combined for a shut out to lead the Panthers to a 3-1 pool record and a win in the final SCP 2012 game. SCP 2013 Kirk Morgan went 2-2 with 4 stolen bases to help lead the offense and SCP 2014 Ryder Ryan drove in 3 Panther runs.

Winning Pitcher: Cameron Tekker (7-3) 3.33IP; 2H; 4K; 0R. Save: Jake Cochrane (2) 2IP; 0H; 4K; 0R.

Leading Hitters: Kirk Morgan 2-2. Ryder Ryan 1-3 (3 RBIs). John Mangum 1-2. Jacob Rothman 1-3.

The SCP 2012 team finished the season 45-17-4 and a two year Panther record of 93-32-9.