Christ School varsity baseball players and coaches huddled up Wednesday in shallow right field, as they always do, and agreed to a harsh critique of their 10th win.
“It’s like we were just saying, there’s good wins and bad wins. This was a bad win, but it counts in the W column, that’s all we care about,” Wells Alderman ’26 said.
“We work hard every day and I think the work shows.”
Indeed, the Greenies did have plenty of positives to take away from their home game with Chesnee (S.C.).
With full command of his breaking pitches, Wells kept the Eagles guessing for the first five innings of a 5-4 win. The freshman from Fayetteville, N.C., only gave up one run, three hits, and two walks to go with his eight strikeouts.
“I felt really good once my curveball started feeling really good,” Wells said.
“I felt like I had my changeup, my fastball, my curveball all working, so I had a lot of weapons. Just the key was getting ahead of the batters. I felt like if I could get ahead, I could throw all three pitches and make them hit.”
Wells reached his pitch count at 75 before turning over the game to Will Walker ’25 and Jakob Iwanek ’24. The top of the seventh inning was dicey – Chesnee (4-7) had the bases-loaded with two outs – but Jakob got the final batter to ground out to Riley Shuler ’25 at first base.
No one for the Greenies (10-2) had more than one hit. A two-run single by catcher Jonathan Reece ’25 in the third inning was the biggest blow of the night. Jakob and Johno Pierce ’23 had one RBI each and Will doubled.
“Baseball is a tough game, and we’re trying some different things in these nonconference games,” Christ School coach Wesley King said.
“We didn’t swing it as well as we have, but we found a way. It’s good to play in that kind of late-game setting. That last ball took a bad hop and Riley still made a play for us. We move on, get another win, and we look forward to Friday (at Lugoff-Elgin, S.C.).
Coach King is in his third season at Christ School and the Greenies have already matched the final wins total for his first two teams. Last year’s 10-13 squad claimed a share of the Carolinas Athletic Association championship.
