Photo by Andrew Grimm Jefferson County Teramana Post 33’s Landon Pownall swings at a pitch during Tuesday’s game against New Philadelphia.

RICHMOND — The thing about baseball is, if a team has a bad day, it typically doesn’t have to wait long for a chance to bounce back.

Jefferson County Teramana Post 33 took advantage of the quick chance to bounce back on Tuesday, playing errorless baseball while four pitchers combined for a shutout of visiting New Philadelphia, 6-0. The victory put Monday’s loss to St. Clairsville, during which Post 33 had more errors than hits, in the rear view in a hurry.

“We didn’t make one error, our pitchers threw strikes and our hitting is getting better,” Post 33 coach Anthony Pierro said. “Every aspect was better (Tuesday). We play every day this week, we have an many as seven or eight more games this week, so hopefully the repetition helps us continue to get better and find a rhythm.”

While six runs on six hits is not a huge number by any means, it was a boost of confidence for a Jefferson County offense that had been slumping. They did all of the damage without the DH and No. 3 batter, too, as Cooper Blackburn was ejected for arguing a called first strike in the first.

“That six runs is big for us, our hitting is getting better but we’re not quite hitting the ball great yet,” Pierro said. “We say we need to get four or five runs every game because we’ve got the pitching and defense to win if we do that.

“Our pitching is going to keep us in every game, we’ve got to find way to get runs on the board for them and (Tuesday) we did.”

Scheduled to play every day this week, and with the Beast of the East at the end of the week looming, having the whole pitching staff going is a big deal for Jefferson County (11-7), too, and all four used by the club on Tuesday were strong.

Aiden Fernandez, the former Indian Creek ace turned college pitcher, started and fired the first four innings, fanning three and allowing just two hits.

Harrison Central’s Kaden Jurosko (three strikeouts in the fifth) and Creek’s Ty Householder (two strikeouts in a scoreless sixth) turned in holds, while Edison’s Gage Cline fired a scoreless seventh to finish things off after his team added to the lead.

The quartet combined for eight strikeouts and held New Philadelphia to six singles.

“Aiden came out great, Kaden Jurosko did amazing, Ty got some good work in and Gage Cline gave us a solid inning,” Pierro said. “We’re going to need every single arm this week and it’s nice when it works out like it is (Tuesday).”

Post 33 took an early lead in the bottom of the first when Landon Pownall, another Creek product, plated J.T. Thompson, a Big Red grad, with an RBI fielder’s choice.

Thompson again got on base as the leadoff man in the third, reaching first with a single and second on a throwing error, then scored on another miscue to make it 2-0 after Fernandez put the ball in play.

That remained the score until the sixth, when Jefferson County’s bats again came alive.

Creek grad David Ferroni scored on a wild pitch after walking, Jurosko drove in a run with an RBI fielder’s choice, Big Red’s Zach Smith drove in a run with a two-out RBI single and another run scored on an error on a grounder put in play by Hakim Edwards, also of Big Red.

Due to a decreased number of teams this season, New Philadelphia and Jefferson County know they will meet in the District 7 final later this season.

“It’s nice to see them and see what they have,” Pierro said. “They’re a good team.”

The teams rematch today in New Philadelphia, with Jefferson County set to throw Edison ace Hunter Rothacker, according to Pierro.