SPORTS BRIEFS: Lee County baseball loses pair of game in Gwinnett County

Lee County baseball drops two in Gwinnett County

Lee County lost a pair of one-run games this weekend to a pair of Gwinnett County schools. The Trojans lost 6-5 in eight innings to North Gwinnett on Saturday after falling to Mountain View 3-2 Friday night, also in eight innings.

On Saturday, Lee County outhit North Gwinnett 11-7 behind Jordan Reep, Landon Cooper and Josh Hatcher, who each went 2 for 4 at the plate.

Lee County played sloppily. They allowed seven walks, hit two batters and made three errors.

On Friday, Lee County lost to Mountain View on a walk-off single. Reep, Hatcher, Malik Spratling and Tyler Simon all had hits in the game. Garet Morrell had an RBI.

The Trojans (10-4) will return to Region 1-AAAAAA play on Tuesday when they travel to Valdosta to meet Lowndes at 6 p.m. They have home games with Perry on Wednesday, then another region game with Valdosta on Friday.

Worth County baseball beats Westover

Denzel Gowdy led the Worth County Rams to a 7-3 victory over Westover Saturday afternoon at Pope Park in Sylvester. The two teams were scheduled to play at the Paul Eames Sports Complex in Albany on Friday but rain pushed the game back to Saturday. Poor field conditions moved the game to Pope Park. The two will play again on April 15 at the Paul Eames Complex.

Gowdy blasted two home runs for the Rams. Gowdy went 2 for 2 in the game with three RBIs and two runs scored. He homered in the first and third innings.

Cody Reddell kept contact to a minimum, striking out eight Westover batters. Reddell allowed one earned run, seven hits and two walks over six innings.

The Worth County Rams went up for good in the first, scoring two runs on a two-run home run by Gowdy.

After pushing across one run in the top of the second, Westover trimmed the deficit to 2-1.

But Worth brought home two runs in the third inning, and matched that run total in the fourth. In the third, the Rams scored on a solo home run by Gowdy.

Worth built upon its lead with two runs in the fourth. A clutch ground out scored Seth Newell to open the scoring in the frame.

A one-run fifth inning helped bring Westover within four. An RBI single by Tanner Mitchum sparked Westover’s rally.

The Rams survived Westover’s surge and put up one run of their own in the fifth on Shelby Cox’s RBI single.

One run in the top of the sixth helped Westover close its deficit to 7-3 but that was as close as they would get.

Cox went 2 for 3 with an RBI, while Jonathan Cirullo finished 1 for 3 with an RBI and Reece Bozeman finished 1 for 4 with an RBI.

Tanner Mitchum, Terrance Mosely and Devin Ducksworth each had two hits for the Patriots.

Darton baseball splits with South Georgia

After getting just two hits in the first game of a doubleheader on Saturday at South Georgia and falling 1-0, the Cavaliers rebounded with a 17-2 rout in the second game.

Jeremy Beasley fell to 3-2 on the mound in the first game after pitching a gem. He was stung with the loss after allowing just two hits and an earned run in six innings of work.

In the second game, pitcher Sterling Sharp improved to 4-2, allowing just five hits and two earned runs in five innings of work.

The Cavaliers were led by Chandler Cross, who went 4 for 5 with three RBIs. Colton Thomas went 3 for 4 with an RBI, while Luis Salas went 3 for 5 with a two-run homer and four RBIs.

Tavin Thompson and William Golden each went 2 for 4 with a pair of RBIs.

The Cavaliers (21-11, 8-4 Region) will play at West Georgia Tech on Tuesday.

Darton finished with just one victory in its series at South Georgia. On Friday, the Cavaliers lost 9-7. Thomas went 3 for 5 with two RBIs, while Cross went 2 for 3 with two doubles.