Seahawks comeback falls short against IR baseball
Momentum from a 30-0 victory over First State Military Academy nearly carried Sussex Academy baseball to its first program win over Indian River, but the boys came up just short 13-9.
IR struck first in the bottom of the first, but the Seahawks tripled their output to take a 3-1 lead heading into the bottom of the second inning. That’s when the hosts added four more runs. Sussex Academy responded with a run to keep things close at 5-4 before IR tacked on five runs in the third.
A scoreless fourth inning led to a bump in confidence for the Seahawks when the visitors trimmed the lead to 10-6 in the top of the fifth. Another IR run in the bottom of the stanza and one in the top of the sixth from Sussex Academy made it an 11-7 ball game. IR plated two more in the bottom of the sixth to set up a 13-7 seventh inning.
Sussex Academy showed some heart, but could only get two runners across, falling short of a comeback and moving to 1-1 on the season with a 13-9 loss.
Aaron Mushrush joined the sports team in Summer 2023 to help cover the emerging youth athletics scene in the Cape Region. After lettering in soccer and lacrosse at Sussex Tech, he played lacrosse at Division III Eastern University in St. David's, PA. Aaron coached lacrosse at Sussex Tech in 2009 and 2011. Post-collegiately, Mush played in the Eastern Shore Summer Lacrosse League for Blue Bird Tavern and Saltwater Lacrosse. He competed in several tournaments for the Shamrocks Lacrosse Club, which blossomed into the Maryland Lacrosse League (MDLL). Aaron interned at the Coastal Point before becoming assistant director at WMDT-TV 47 ABC in 2017 and eventually assignment editor in 2018.
