Baseball: La Salle's Bowdien Derby Throws No-Hitter at Bishop Montgomery

La Salle junior Bowdien Derby didn’t have his best stuff Monday at Bishop Montgomery. Derby struggled to locate his pitches, walking five batters and hitting another on a windy day at a park that’s given Lancers pitchers trouble in the past.

But one thing Derby didn’t do was give up a hit. Derby threw the first no-hitter of his career to lead the Lancers to a 7-0 victory over Bishop Montgomery.

The Lancers improve to 8-3 overall and 3-0 in the Del Rey League.

“It was outstanding,” La Salle coach Harry Agajanian said. “The crazy thing was he didn’t even have all of his good stuff today. But he battled and he threw 92 pitches. And when we got to the seventh inning, we knew we had something going there.”

Derby got two quick outs in the bottom of the seventh, and then struck out the final batter of the game on a called third strike to seal the no-no.

“He’s never thrown a no-hitter before,” Agajanian said. “This is his first. It’s exciting.”

Derby recorded nine strikeouts in all, and Agajanian said he allowed only two balls out of the infield.

Agajanian said Derby was aided in the field by some solid defensive work from shortstop Steven Petrovich and first baseman Nick Brown.

The no-hitter was the first in Agajanian’s six-year career at La Salle, and he said the La Salle athletic department was investigating to see if it’s the first no-hitter in school history. 

Agajanian said he’s coached one other no-hitter at the high school level; in 2004 when he was an assistant coach at Arcadia.