Perry Central Commodores Open Baseball Season With 9-3 Win Over South Central

Perry Central High School's Commodores opened their 2026 baseball season with a 9-3 win over South Central on March 31, getting strong pitching performances from two arms that set the tone for everything that followed.

Dylan Mullis drew the early assignment and delivered. The right-hander worked 2.1 innings, gave up just two hits, and never allowed an earned run, keeping South Central off balance long enough to hand the ball to the bullpen with the Commodores in control. Zac Mitchell took it from there, logging 3.2 innings, surrendering one earned run on a single hit, and closing out the bulk of the game. Together, the two combined for six innings with one earned run on three hits, a line that would hold up in any opener.

The offense backed them up by spreading production across the lineup. Perry Central scored in multiple innings rather than relying on a single big frame, accumulating the nine runs through situational hitting and capitalizing on opportunities as they came. That patient, balanced approach against a South Central team that entered the game with its own expectations for the season made the margin more convincing than a one-sided final sometimes is.

Players to follow: Mullis and Mitchell give the Commodores two reliable options at the front of the pitching rotation. Mullis's ability to limit baserunners early in his outing, zero earned runs in 2.1 innings, keeps pitch counts manageable and sets up the middle innings. Mitchell's single-hit showing over 3.2 innings is the kind of efficiency that holds leads and builds confidence in a coaching staff still evaluating depth in early April.

Perry Central's complete schedule and upcoming game details are available at perrycentralathletics.com and through the team's MaxPreps page, where box scores are also updated following each contest.