A busy Saturday on high school baseball diamonds
February 23, 2025
All four local high school baseball teams were in action on Saturday, and each team won. Woodland and Adairsville collected doubleheader sweeps. Cartersville won at Ringgold, and Cass split two games of the Georgia Dugout Challenge at LakePoint.
CARTERSVILLE 8, RINGGOLD 2
Cartersville third baseman Andrew Purdy doubled home two runs in the second inning and hit a two-run homer in the seventh on Saturday afternoon to help lead the Cartersville Purple Hurricanes in an 8-2 win at Ringgold.
Canes’ pitchers Nate Russell and Maddox Frazier combined on eleven strikeouts from the mound. Russell started and did not allow a run through four innings. He allowed two hits and one walk while fanning seven. Frazier yielded two runs on two hits with one walk, one hit batsman, and four strikeouts across the final three frames.
Cole Crawford (RBI), Juliez Pratt (RBI), Cameron Cochran, Brayden Logan, Thomas Peters, and David Vargas added one hit for the Canes.
The loss dropped Ringgold to 3-3 on the season.
Cartersville (3-2) will play on Thursday through Saturday in the 48-team Perfect Game High School Showdown at the Hoover, Alabama Met Sports Complex. The Canes open the tournament on Thursday at Mountain Brook High School against Fairhope (AL)
CASS 13, OSBORNE 0
The Colonels salvaged one of three games played in the Georgia Dugout Challenge by blanking Osborne on Saturday afternoon 13-0 in five innings.
Cass scored single runs in the first three innings, added two in the fourth and eight in the fifth to secure the victory.
Hunter Lovett worked all five innings on the mound for the Colonels and allowed just one hit with four walks and eight strikeouts.
To lead the Cass offense, Chase Tatum had three hits, including two doubles and five RBI. Nic Wright (two doubles, two RBI), Zach Stiles (double, two RBI), and Trenton Elario (double, two RBI) contributed two hits. Joshua Churchwell (RBI), Dustin Wallin, and Jay Sheldon added one hit for the Colonels.
The loss dropped Osborne to 3-4 on the season.
Cass (2-3) visits LaFayette on Tuesday for a 5:30 p.m. first pitch and will host Rome for a doubleheader on Wednesday at 5 p.m.
CAMBRIDGE 10, CASS 1
The Cambridge Bears posted seven runs in the bottom of the first inning on Saturday morning and never looked back in a 10-1 win over Cass at LakePoint in the Georgia Dugout Challenge.
Cambridge took advantage of five hits, three walks, and one hit batsman in the opening frame to build a big early lead.
Nic Wright’s sacrifice fly in the top of the third inning plated the only Colonels run although Cass had eight hits in the game.
Dustin Wallin (0.1 IP, 7ER, 4H, 3BB) made the pitching start for Cass and suffered the loss. Four other Cass pitchers were utilized, including Chase Tatum (1.2 IP, 2ER, 4H, 1BB), Joshua Churchwell (0.2 IP, 1ER, 0H, 2BB, 1K), Landon Lamb (1.1 IP, 0R, 1H, 1BB, 1K), and Jay Sheldon (2 IP, 0R, 2H, 1BB, 1K).
Hunter Lovett and Tatum had two hits for the Colonels. Isaac Mason and Zach Stiles (triple) added one hit.
WOODLAND 13, CHEROKEE CO. (AL) 3
The Wildcats pounded out fifteen hits and scored in five of their six offensive frames in the first game of a doubleheader on Saturday with Cherokee County (AL).
The visiting Warriors led 3-1 in the middle of the third inning, but Woodland posted a dozen runs over the next four innings to secure the win.
Jake Clowers (double, RBI) and Alfredo Romo (two RBI) sparked the Wildcats’ offense at the top of the order. Ben Turcotte (four RBI), Conner Lujan (double, triple, two RBI), and Jonathan Ryan contributed two hits. Preston Sorrells (three RBI), Lucas Baker (RBI), and Grant Tidwell added one hit.
Austin Daves was the winning pitcher for Woodland. He allowed three runs (one earned) in his four-inning start on two hits and two walks. Daves struck out four. Tucker James pitched the final two innings for the Wildcats and did not allow a run on one hit and one walk.
WOODLAND 2, CHEROKEE CO. (AL) 0
In the second game of Saturday’s home doubleheader, the Wildcats got just enough offense to support the shutdown pitching of Lucas Baker and Jake Clowers to beat the visiting Warriors 2-0.
Baker made a five-inning start for the pitching win and scattered two hits and two walks while fanning four. Baker closed out the final two innings on the mound and only allowed one hit. He struck out one.
Woodland managed only three hits against Cherokee County pitcher Adam Griffith but pushed across single runs in the first and fourth innings.
A dropped third strike, a single by Alfredo Romo, and a wild pitch plated the first-inning run for the Wildcats. Singles by Romo and Lucas Baker sandwiched a sacrifice bunt by Conner Lujan to set up a run-scoring groundout by Ben Turcotte in the fourth inning.
With Saturday's losses, Cherokee County slipped to 2-5 on the season.
Woodland (3-1) visits Pepperell on Friday for a 5:45 p.m. first pitch.
ADAIRSVILLE 10, DARLINGTON 5
A five-run first inning and a four-run sixth inning proved enough for Adairsville in the first game of a doubleheader on Saturday at Darlington in a 10-5 final.
The green-clad Tigers outhit the purple-clad Tigers fourteen to three but did commit five defensive miscues and issued seven walks to keep Darlington in the game.
Jack Nelson made the pitching start for Adairsville and worked into the sixth inning. He allowed three runs (two earned) on three hits and three walks in 5-½ innings on the bump. Nelson struck out six. McCayden Hufstetler allowed two unearned runs on four walks in 1-⅓ innings with one strikeout, and Tyler Parker entered to retire one out from the mound.
Peyton Bowen (double, three RBI), Nelson (three RBi), and Evan Hardin (RBI) had three hits for Adairsville. Brody Varner (RBI) and Harrison Cole contributed two hits. Hayden Miller (RBI) added one hit in the win.
ADAIRSVILLE 4, DARLINGTON 3
Braxton Ryan produced a go-ahead, two-out RBI single in the top of the fifth inning to help lift Adairsville to a 4-3 win in the second game of a doubleheader at Darlington.
Adairsville led 2-0 early, but the host Tigers scored two runs in the third inning and added one in the fourth to grab a 3-2 advantage.
Two walks to Adairsville batters started the top of the fifth, and a Jarrett Scott ground out forced in a run to make the score 3-3. After another base on balls, Ryan drove in the go-ahead run.
Hudson Parr picked up the pitching win for Adairsville with a five-inning start. He allowed three earned runs on three hits. Parr walked five and struck out seven. Harrison Cole allowed one hit and one walk with two strikeouts in a scoreless sixth inning. Scott was credited with a save by tossing a shutout seventh inning. He gave up one hit and struck out two,
Ethan Long (double, two RBI), Scott (double, RBI), Ryan (RBI), Bowen, and Isaac Burnett had one hit each for Adairsville.
Saturday’s two losses dropped Darlington to 3-2 for the season.
Adairsville (3-2) plays at Sonoraville on Monday at 5:30 p.m.
