Dawgs open season with win

The Diamond Dawgs started their season off right with a 10-3 win over Sylvania Heat Sunday, April 22.

Winning pitcher for the game was Geoffrey Daniel who gave up only one earned run and struck out 12 batters. Avery McAlpine did well in relief.

Leading hitters for the game were Tim Bragg, 2-4; Flint Clark and Geoffrey Daniel, 2- 5; and Houston Bowers, 2-3.

The Diamond Dawgs are a team of local 17 to 35-yearold men that play baseball. Last year the team won the South Georgia Championship and represented south Georgia in the MABL Fall Classic in Tampa Bay, Fla.

Members include Bragg, Taylor Frawley, Bob Hoke, Clark, Bobby D. Sharpe, McAlpine, Zac Clark, Drew Dudley, Bowers, Daniel, Adam Lanier, Justin Lanier and Johnathan Purvis, all of Millen, and Seth Edwards and Sam Sanders, both of Glennville.

The team is coached by Tim Frawley of Millen.

Eleven of the team's 21 games this season will be played in Millen on Sundays.

A schedule will run in The Millen News soon.

The public is invited to come and cheer on the team. There is on admission charge.