Harris pitches English past Danvers

Lucas Harris won a pitcher?s duel as the English baseball team defeated Danvers, 1-0, at Fraser Field on Thursday.Harris pitched a perfect first four innings and allowed three hits in a complete-game effort (7 IP). He threw 84 pitches.?We didn?t make any errors,” Bulldogs coach Joe Caponigro said. “We played a clean game. Lucas had a lot of support defensively.”Meanwhile, Brandon Hyde of Danvers entered the game with a 20-1 high school record.The game lived up to its billing as Hyde one-hit the Bulldogs with four K?s and neither pitcher allowed a walk. Harris had the Bulldogs? lone hit.English got its run without a hit in the second inning. Harris reached on a one-out error, took third on Hyde?s errant pickoff attempt and scored on a perfectly-executed safety squeeze by Mike Ausiello.Danvers threatened in the fifth. A leadoff single ended Harris? perfect game. The runner stole second and tried to go to third on a one-out ground ball to shortstop. However, Kelvin Aracena of English threw him out. Danvers followed with a single, putting runners at the corners with two outs.On an attempted steal of second, English ran a cutoff with Harris. The runner at third started to come home and the Bulldogs nailed him at the plate.?It was the best scoring opportunity they had in the game,” Caponigro said.