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By Brian Pitts
Davie Enterprise Record

In two games against Glenn last week, Davie’s varsity baseball team simply did everything well – 25 runs scored, four runs allowed, 27 hits, 8 hits allowed, one error (compared to nine errors by Glenn).
To make the sweep all the sweeter, the War Eagles avenged some gruesome losses from the past two years to the Bobcats.
Davie 13, Glenn 3
In a continuation from the way Davie played against Watauga, Reynolds and South Iredell, it scored in five of six at-bats and stopped a five-game losing streak in the series with authority when the War Eagles hosted Glenn on Senior Night on April 22.
Starting pitcher Tucker Hobbs looked fabulous for 5.1 innings, leaving with a three-hitter, one run, no walks and six strikeouts. The senior righthander tossed 42 strikes in 59 pitches.
“After the first inning, Tucker pretty much threw lights out,” coach Joey Anderson said of the recent Guilford Tech Community College signee.
Five guys cracked multiple hits, including Coy James (2-3, two walks, double, three steals), Drew Krause (2-5, two RBIs), Coston Colamarino (2-4), Kason Stewart (2-3, two RBIs) and Carson Queen (2-4, two RBIs).
“The guys swung the bats very well,” Anderson said. “I don’t think I could have asked for a better result. We put pressure on them early, made them make plays and sometimes they didn’t make those plays.”
Notes: Hunter Potts, Logan Allen, Hayden Potts and Brandon Forrest helped Davie mount 14 hits, and Parker Davis and Xander Shinsky finished up on the mound, both recording one out. … Three of Davie’s five losses to Glenn in 2023-24 were by one run.
Davie 12, Glenn 1
Two nights later, the visiting War Eagles picked up right where they left off, winning again in blowout style and extending their winning streak (six) to the longest in three years.
Davie immediately set the tone. James led off the game with an infield hit. Krause followed with a single. James scored on a passed ball. After Hunter Potts walked, courtesy-runner Blake French scored on a double steal. The third run crossed on Colamarino’s groundout.
“I think they’ve got some injuries because they had people in different spots,” Anderson said. “I don’t think (Glenn coach Dustin Ijames) got to start the pitcher that he wanted to, but he might have been saving him for (the first round of the CPC Tournament on April 28).”
The top four batters in the order combined for nine hits as James went 3-4 with three steals, Krause 2-2, Colamarino 2-4 with three RBIs and two steals and Allen 2-4.
Meanwhile, Davis turned in the signature mound performance of his senior season. He hurled a four-hitter over five innings with 56 strikes in 87 pitches.
“Parker did an excellent job,” Anderson said. “He was throwing strikes right from the start.”
James added another chapter to his comic-book year by setting Davie’s single-season hits record. He has 46 base knocks, four more than Whit Merrifield (42 in 2006) and Corey Randall (42 in 2012). He has a seven-game hitting streak since his 17-gamer ended April 8. His sky-scraping average is .638 (46 for 72).
Krause’s four-hit week was nothing new. The senior catcher has hit safely in seven of eight games, and he’s hitting .389 with 22 walks.
“Drew has done a very good job,” Anderson said. “He hit a home run at the old ballpark (at Rich Park), and then he was trying to do that every single time. Then he figured out that’s not what the team needs me to do; they need me to put the ball in play, hit line drives and protect Coy. And he’s done a really good job at that.”
Colamarino has made serious noise during a six-game hitting streak, the 9-for-20 stretch raising his season average to .365.
“Coston’s one I was really excited about (before the season),” Anderson said. “He’s probably the second-best athlete on the team. His first sport is volleyball. He’s being nationally recruited in volleyball, but he loves baseball and we love having him out there. We’ve seen some (volleyball) videos. Yeah, he’s very athletic.”
You can’t forget about Allen, who has gone 13 for 29 during a nine-game hitting streak. His average has climbed to .351.
“Logan had shoulder-separation issues – his shoulder was popping out when he was swinging – but he’s been big for us,” Anderson said. “He does grind work and does a good job.”
Ty Sain (1-2, double), Hayden Potts (1-1), Ryan Williams (1-1, double) and Forrest (1-2) added hits at Glenn.
Notes: This was the 100th game for Anderson, assistant coach Ross Hoffner, James and Krause as a unit. … Davie’s winning streak is the longest since a six-gamer in 2022 in Anderson’s first year as coach. … Davie was 12-12 heading into the CPC Tournament. … Forrest is hitting .343 as a freshman. Queen is hitting .320 with 17 walks. … Davie finished fourth in the CPC for the fourth time in five years; the exception was last year’s fifth. The standings: West Forsyth 14-0, Reagan 12-2, East Forsyth 10-4, Davie 8-6, Glenn 5-9, Mt. Tabor 4-10, Reynolds 3-11, Parkland 0-14.