Alan Perry has pitched a lot of baseball games for the Seymour Owls during his career.

Owls coach Jeremy Richey said Tuesday’s performance against Brownstown Central is as good as he has seen the senior right-hander.

Perry allowed two hits, didn’t walk any and had a career-high 15 strike outs in a 1-0 victory against the Owls’ Jackson County rivals.

“I think as (Perry) got going with the curve ball (he was outstanding),” Richey said. “He was throwing back-to-back curve balls quite a bit in the middle innings because he was so comfortable with that.

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“He’s got good velocity but it’s not great so when he’s throwing curve balls for strikes and mixing things in, it makes that fastball look even faster and they really had a hard time getting around it.”

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Throwing out ceremonial first pitches were Justin Brewer, a student at Brownstown Central, and Sonia Gonzalez, mother of the late Angel Blanchard, who would have been a member of the Seymour team this spring.

“We had a really good crowd which is a typical Seymour-Brownstown game,” Braves coach Brandon Tormoehlen said. “The cool part is there is a mutual respect between both programs.

“I thought it was a really neat thing and to see the two people come out and throw that first pitch. It was pretty cool.”

Tormoehlen was impressed with Perry.

“When Alan Perry’s on the mound he’s a pretty good arm,” he said. “He did a really good job tonight. I knew it was going to be tough. The conditions aren’t very good to hit in, 40 degrees and no wind. I knew we were going to have to string a couple hits together and to do that against an arm like him I knew it was going to be a tough task against our guys.”

“I think Alan has a bright future in the game. He did a really good job of keeping our guys off-balance and did a really good job of challenging our hitters. So far this year, it is only our fourth game, he’s the best arm we’ve seen.”

With one out in the third inning, Perry drew a walk and he stole second base. Seth Maki lined the ball off third baseman Matthew Garland’s glove with Perry scoring.

“On that ball that scored the run I would like to have seen him knock that down, at least, to give ourselves a chance to make a play,” Tormoehlen said. “He’s been playing second base for us all year. I moved him to third today just to try something different. We struggled a little bit (Monday) night down at North Harrison defensively so I wanted to mix something up and just kind of it would look like, and for the most part Matthew did a really good job.

The Owls had four hits with A.J. Boshears getting a single in the second and a triple in the fourth, and Michael Knecht singled in the sixth.

“We have not been, to this point, a very good offensive team,” Richey said. “We made some mistakes tonight, we swing through a hit-and-run on a ball down the middle. We did some things that were aggressive but they’re some things that we can’t do.

“We just have to be better than that offensively because right now we are struggling at the plate. We didn’t strike out much. I would say we had two or three balls hit hard all night, and that’s a credit to their kid. Their kid mixed it up and he kept us off balance.”

The Owls had three stolen bases against the Braves.

Matthew Bell, a junior left-hander, allowed the Owls four hits, struck out two and walked one.

“(Bell) did a nice job,” Tormoehlen said. “He located his fastball. A couple innings there we was getting his changeup over, and a couple innings he was getting his curve ball over. It was just a matter for me trying to figure out which one to call, which one was working for him.”

The Braves’ hits were a double by Ian Martin in the first inning and a single by Seth Borden in the sixth.

Both teams will be home Thursday with Owls (3-1) facing Jeffersonville and the Braves (2-2) meeting Eastern (Pekin).