Canes open '25 home slate with two wins

February 19, 2025

Pitcher Nate Russell is greeted between innings by catcher Julez Pratt and first baseman Cameron Cochran in the Hurricanes' 3-0 win Tuesday over the Alexander Cougars.

Cartersville pitching dominated the day on Tuesday as the Purple Hurricanes defeated visiting Alexander 3-0 and Adairsville 11-0.

Nate Russell, Logan Shrewsbury, and Andrew Purdy combined on the mound to shut out Alexander. Russell worked the first three innings, yielding only one walk with three strikeouts. Shrewsbury scattered two hits and one walk in three frames and fanned four. Purdy walked two batters and struck out one in a scoreless seventh inning.

Maddox Frazier and Nolan Elrod combined for ten strikeouts in the shutout of Adairsville. Frazier allowed two hits and one walk with four strikeouts in the first two innings. Elrod gave up one hit and two walks with six strikeouts over the final three frames. 

Cartersville broke open a scoreless game with Alexander with three runs in the bottom of the sixth inning. 

Tristan McKibben reached base on a Cougars’ infield error to begin the Hurricanes’ sixth. Purdy followed with a walk and was lifted for courtesy runner Clint Hosea. Cameron Cochran followed with a ground ball double into left field to score McKibben and send Hosea to third. Cooper Graves was then entered as a runner at second base for Cameron Cochran.

Casen Cochran and Thomas Peters followed with back-to-back RBI singles, giving the Canes a 3-0 lead.

The loss left Alexander with an 0-5 start to their season.

In the Canes’ win over Adairsville, Cartersville led 4-0 through three innings and put the game away with a seven-run fourth innings.

Peters (double, three RBI), Casen Cochran (two RBI), David Vargas (RBI), and McKibben (double) produced two hits against the Tigers. Cole Crawford and Julez Pratt finished with one hit and one RBI. Purdy and Avery Shiflett drove in one run.

Jarrett Scott, Harrison Cole, and Matthew Cook had one hit for the Tigers.

Adairsville utilized four pitchers in the abbreviated game.

Scott (2.1 IP, 4R, 1ER, 5H, 1BB, 2K) made the pitching start and was saddled with the loss. Hudson Parr (0.2 IP, 3ER, 2H, 1BB, 2K), Kaiden Coker (0.1 IP, 4ER, 0H, 3BB), and Ethan Long (0.2 IP, 1BB) made pitching appearances for the Tigers.

Adairsville (1-2) has a doubleheader at Darlington on Saturday at noon.

Cartersville (2-1) visits Etowah on Friday for a 5:55 p.m. first pitch and will play at Ringgold on Saturday at 1 p.m.