Newberry Baseball Performs Lengthy Sport to Defeat Dunnellon – WRUF

By Haylee Smith
February 25, 2026
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NEWBERRY — Panthers baseball needed to maintain off the winless Dunnellon Tigers for a 10-9 win on a brisk Tuesday evening. 
The sport began out promising for the Tigers (0-8) with 5 hits and three runs. That was till junior shortstop Tavis Honeycutt stepped as much as the plate for the Panthers (5-2) and crushed a two-run homer, his sixth within the seven video games this season. 
“Clearly, hitting very nicely proper now. I’m simply making an attempt to see ball, hit ball,” Honeycutt, the College of Florida commit, mentioned.
A double down the third final analysis put Honeycutt on base within the third inning. He went on to steal third and was introduced residence off a wild pitch to tie the sport 3-3.
It went downhill within the fourth inning when Dunnellon scored three runs and Newberry couldn’t collect a single hit.
Nonetheless, the fifth inning introduced a way of aid for cold Panthers followers. The ball-to-bat symphony was taking part in, as Newberry tallied seven runs off  seven hits (4 doubles and three singles). It went via the complete batting order within the inning for a 10-6 lead.
“We discovered a option to win, and we had some massive hits and a few massive performs there late within the sport,” Newberry coach Mike Spina mentioned.
Dunnellon introduced residence two runs within the sixth inning and one within the seventh, nevertheless it nonetheless wasn’t sufficient to place out the hearth the Panthers lit within the fifth.
If solely the glove of the Tigers catcher may join with the ball in addition to Honeycutt’s bat may — the sport might have ended otherwise.
Honeycutt led Newberry by going 3-for-3, scoring three runs and driving in two. Junior third baseman Koleby Benson and senior catcher Trey Priester joined Honeycutt in a number of hits, every going 2-for-4. 
Benson smashed a single within the second inning and bunted one within the fifth. Priester additionally hit two singles, one within the third inning the place he was left on base and one other within the fifth inning the place he made it residence.
The Tigers out hit the Panthers 12-11, however couldn’t translate them into runs as effectively because the Panthers.
“They placed on the identical sneakers as we do. They placed on the identical garments as we do. We go on the market and we compete with anyone,” Honeycutt mentioned.
Newberry will subsequent face the Lafayette Hornets (4-2) in one other residence sport Thursday at 7 p.m.
Class: Baseball, Gainesville, High School Sports, Newberry High School
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