The Cartersville boys secured the top seed in Region 5AAAA for the state playoffs with a 4-0 shutout at Sandy Creek Friday night. Jake Hacker scored two goals, Pedro Ghanem and Cesar Abeja added one goal each. Grant Farmer contributed two assists. Goalkeeper Cade Roberts earned the shutout in net. Cartersville (13-1-2, 6-0 Region 5AAAA) plays Sonoraville next Friday and will host the opening round of the Class AAAA state playoffs April 26. CASS GIRLS 1, NORTH SPRINGS 0 The Cass girls soccer team wrapped up its 2017 season with a 1-0 defeat of visiting North Springs Friday at Doug Cochran Stadium. Kelsey Rivera scored the Cass goal from an assist by Lupita Pineda in the second half. NORTH SPRINGS BOYS 6, CASS 4 The Cass boys soccer team led visiting North Springs 4-3 at the intermission, but the Spartans scored three second half goals and shutdown the Colonels’ scoring attack to defeat the Colonels, 6-4. Anthony Robledo scored three goals for Cass. Jorge Cabanos also scored a goal. Cabanos, Brandon Romero, Julio Medina, and Jackson Laurent each contributed assists. Romero recorded eight saves in net for the Colonels. The Colonels play the second half of a suspended game at Kell Saturday at 6pm. Cass is leading 2-1 with only the second half remaining. The winner of that game advances to the state playoffs.

Region leading Carrollton scored three runs in the bottom of the sixth Friday night to come-from-behind for a 5-4 win over visiting Woodland. The Trojans trailed Woodland 3-0 through three innings and trailed 4-2 heading to the bottom of the sixth. The sixth frame rally occurred after two outs had been recorded. A walk, two doubles, and a single led to Carrollton’s three-run rally. Garrett Cornett (photo) and Hunter Reaid had two hits each for Woodland. Cauy Williams had one hit. Jacob Frye had one RBI. Grayson Bagwell (0.1 IP, 1ER, 2H, 0BB) was tagged with the pitching loss in relief of starter Kenny Jinks (5.2 IP, 4R, 2ER, 4H, 3BB, 1K). The Trojans improved to 24-3 overall and 13-0 in Region 7AAAA. Woodland (16-10, 6-7) hosts Carrollton Monday and closes with two games against Hiram. The Wildcats play at Hiram Wednesday and will host the Hornets Friday. PHOTO CREDIT: TCPics Photography / Susan & Travis Cochran

The 5th-ranked Cartersville baseball team scored single runs in the first two innings Friday night and starting pitcher Anthony Seigler tossed a complete-game, four-hitter as the Hurricanes edged visiting 2nd-ranked LaGrange at Richard Bell Field, 2-1. Seigler (7 IP, 1R, 0ER, 1BB, 1HBP, 4K) also accounted for both Canes’ runs through his courtesy runner, John Reed Evans. Seigler was 1-for-4 and was on base a second time with a fielder’s choice. Seigler (photo) kept the Grangers off the scoreboard until the sixth inning. A Cartersville error, a hit batsman, and a single by Willis Kemp accounted for the LaGrange run. Seven different Canes had one hit each. Devin Warner’s hit was a double. Seigler, Noah Daniel, Spencer Dickey, Jordan Wilkie, Preston Welchel, and Ian Inaba had hits. LaGrange falls to 17-11 overall and 7-3 in Region 5AAAA. Cartersville (21-7, 7-3) plays at Troup County (16-9, 7-2) Tuesday at 5:30pm and will host Central-Carrollton Thursday at 5:55pm. PHOTO CREDIT: Louis Tonsmeire / Tonsmeire Studios

Georgia Highlands College softball split a doubleheader Friday evening with East Georgia at Stars Field. The Chargers won the first game 1-0, but fell in the nightcap, 3-2. Rebecca Meade tossed another complete-game shutout for her sixteenth win of the year as the Chargers won the opener, 1-0. She allowed no runs, scattered five hits and one walk, and fanned six. Meade is now one win shy of the single-season record she established last season. GHC scored the game’s only run on a sacrifice fly off the bat of freshman Shay Wooten. Madison Gianfala started the inning with a hit and Shayla Smith followed with a walk. Brianna Fickes grounded into a fielders’ choice to leave runners on the corners when Wooten delivered the RBI. The Chargers led the second game 2-0 going to the seventh inning, but were unable to close the deal. The visiting Bobcats started their rally with two hits and a walk to load the bases. Then the Chargers turned an unusual 3-2-6 doubleplay to put themselves in position to get out of the inning. One run scored on the play and baserunners remained on first and second, but now with two outs. A Charger defensive mistake allowed the tying run to score and the next East Georgia batter delivered a go-ahead RBI single. GHC was unable to score in the bottom of the inning and the Bobcats earned a doubleheader split. Andria Booth was 4-for-7 in the two games and reached once on an error. Gianfala was 4-for-5 with a sacrifice and a walk. Georgia Highlands is now 35-11 on the season and 16-8 in conference. The Chargers take on South Georgia Saturday at Stars Field at 1pm & 3pm. GHC will also be honoring the team’s sophomores between games.

Little League Baseball results from Bartow County Little League (major) and Cartersville Little League (major). Monday, April 10 Bartow County LL (Major) ATHLETICS 12, CARDINALS 2 A’s: Landon O’Neal two hits, three RBIs; Hayden Blalock one hit, two runs; Dawson Craig three runs, one RBI. Cards: Reece Alexander and Julian Herndon one hit and one RBI each. Cartersville LL (Major) Monday, April 10 COLTS 17, PADRES 9 Colts: Trevor Harris three hits, three runs; Jack Chatman two hits, two runs, two RBIs; Brody Tidwell two hits, two runs, three RBIs; Charlie Ray two hits, one RBI. Brody Tidwell winning pitcher. Padres: Avery Higgins (RBI), Lee Camp, and AJ Christina (2 RBIs) two hits each. Thursday, April 13 BRAVES 15, TIGERS 5 Braves: Joshua Clay triple and solo HR; Martavius Cochran, Hayden James, and Caleb Daniel two hits each. Miles Owens hit, three stolen bases. Miles Owens (4 IP, 0R, 1H, 5BB, 9K) Tigers: Colt Williams two hits; Kace Adams two hits including a triple; Hunter Owens hit, two RBIs. Connor Brasfield (3 IP, 5R, 1ER, 7H, 3BB, 5K) INDIANS 11, PHILLIES 7 Indians: Hunter Kelly three hits, three RBIs; Dawson Bishop two hits, two RBIs; Drew Perry two hits, two RBIs; Nick Zirkleback two hits, two RBIs, Trip Bradley two hits. Hunter Kelly (5 IP, 4R, 3ER, 5H, 1BB, 10K). EDITORS’ NOTE: These were the only games finalized and posted by the respective leagues at the time of this publishing for the week of April 10-14. Games are shared to BSZ via GameChanger scorekeeping maintained by each league. As other game information is provided, we will post the updates to the site. Bartow County Little League and Cartersville Little League game capsules and reports are provided by the respective leagues and sponsored on BartowSportsZone.com by Play It Again Sports - Cherokee Place Cartersville.

The Adairsville Tigers held leads of 4-2 after two innings and 6-4 through five innings Thursday night, but visiting Sonoraville escaped with an 8-7 Region 6AAA win after posting four runs in the top of the sixth inning. Grant Clark was a complete-game winning pitcher for the Phoenix. He allowed 13 hits, a walk, and seven earned runs with seven strikeouts while his offense produced just enough to top the Tigers. Taylor Whitley (2 IP, 4R, 2ER, 3H, 3BB, 2K) suffered the pitching loss for Adairsville in relief of starter Sam Seaman (5 IP, 3ER, 8H, 3BB, 4K). Matthew Vincent, Gavin Phillips, Gage Soulios, and Clark had two hits each to lead Sonoraville’s ten-hit attack. The Phoenix also stole six bases in the contest. Kyler Pelfrey (RBI) and Noah Dutton (3 RBIs) led the Tigers at the plate with three hits each. Whitley finished with two hits and two RBIs. Dylan Hightower, Corey Nation, B.J. Roper, Hunter Hice (RBI), and Seaman had one hit apiece. Sonoraville is now 9-12 overall and 4-10 in Region 6AAA. Adairsville (9-17, 4-11) hosts Bremen Tuesday, Calhoun Thursday, and travels to LFO next Friday.

The Cartersville boys team finished first and the Lady Canes were second in a four-team track and field meet Thursday at Gordon Central High School. The Cartersville boys finished 11 points ahead of second place Gordon Central. Ringgold was third and Model fourth. Gordon Central won the girls meet, edging Cartersville by a mere two points. Ringgold was third and Model fourth. Event winners for Cartersville: BOYS Keonte Jackson — High Jump — 6’2” Trey Creamer — Long Jump — 20’ 1.75” Nick Root — Discus Throw — 137’ 00” Andy Sims — 3200M — 11:32.19 Haden Boone — 1600M — 4:56.57 4x100 Relay — 44.41 GIRLS Vanna Beach — 3200M — 13:58.56 Demaya Bryan — 100M — 13.13 Demaya Bryan — 200M — 27.78 Ashlyn Borkowsky — Pole Vault — 7’ 00” 4x100 Relay —52.72 4x400 Relay — 4:41.84

The Calhoun Middle School baseball team completed a 14-0 perfect season Thursday afternoon by winning the championship game of the Bartow-Gordon Middle School Athletic Association playoffs 6-4 over runner-up Cass Middle School. The Yellow Jackets finished the regular season 12-0 and had a semifinal playoff tournament win over Adairsville 10-5 to reach the finals. The Colonels won twice in the tournament to reach the championship game. Cass Middle defeated Ashworth 15-11 in the first round and Red Bud 6-1 in the playoff semifinals. Cass finished the regular and post season with a 10-5 mark. For complete 2017 season standings and results, visit the BGMSAA Spring Sports page of this website.

Emily Collum scored four goals to lead the Adairsville Lady Tigers to a 6-5 non-region win over Model Thursday evening. Adairsville led 6-1 at one point but was forced to hold off a furious rally by the visiting Lady Blue Devils in the second half. Model is now 12-3 on the season. The Lady Tigers improved to 11-3 overall and have region games remaining in the regular season at Ringgold Friday and at Calhoun next Thursday. MODEL BOYS 3, ADAIRSVILLE 1 Eduardo Cisneros scored the lone Adairsville goal in the 28th minute of the first half to send the game to the intermission tied 1-1. Model had opened the game’s scoring with a penalty kick goal in the 9th minute. The Blue Devils scored twice in the second half and shut down the Tigers’ attack to improve to 11-5 on the year. Adairsville (1-9) plays at Ringgold Friday, hosts North Murray Monday, and closes out the year at Calhoun next Thursday.

Steven Spell tossed a complete game, four-hit shutout Thursday night at Paulding County to keep the Cass Colonels’ state playoff hopes alive. The Colonels will need to win in their season finale' Monday against these same Patriots plus get some help. Both Woodland and Villa Rica are 1.5 games ahead of Cass in the race for the fourth playoff seed from Region 7AAAAA and both have four region games remaining. Thursday night, the Colonels scored four runs in the second inning and two more in the fourth. That was plenty of offense on this night for Spell. The junior righty went the full seven innings, scattered four hits, four walks, and fanned six Patriots. He also went 3-for-4 at the plate with a double. Bailey Campbell was 3-for-4 for the Colonels with two RBIs. Brett Gaddy had a hit, a walk and scored two runs. Logan Nelson added an RBI single, walked, and scored a run. Gavin Young also scored a run and drove in one. Paulding County falls to 8-17 overall and 2-11 in Region 7AAAAA. Cass (14-14, 7-8) has a non-region home game Saturday at 11am with River Ridge and will wrap up the regular season with Paulding County at home Monday at 5:55pm. PHOTO CREDIT: TCPics Photography / Susan and Travis Cochran

The 5th-ranked Cartersville Hurricanes lost a Region 5AAAA contest at 7th-ranked Cedartown Thursday evening, 4-2. The Bulldogs scored two runs in the bottom of the first inning to take an early lead, but the Canes tied the game in the third inning on a two-RBI double by Jake Gooch (photo below). Noah Daniel was hit by a pitch and J.P. Martin reached on an error in front of Gooch. John Reed Evans scored as Martin’s courtesy runner. The game remained tied 2-2 until Cedartown scored the deciding runs in the fifth. Three walks and a two-run single by Dalton Price produced the Bulldogs’ runs. Meanwhile, the Canes’ offense could not solve Cedartown starting pitcher Jack Haney (6.2 IP, 2R, 0ER, 3H, 5BB, 4K). Miles Minge entered with two outs in the seventh to retire the final out. Mason Barnett (4.1 IP, 4ER, 4H, 6BB, 5K) started on the mound for the Canes and was charged with the loss. Levi Ayers (1.2 IP, 0R, 1H, 1BB, 4K) entered in the fifth inning. In addition to Gooch’s two-RBI double, Anthony Seigler and Jordan Wilkie had hits for the Canes. Cedartown improved to 18-5 overall and 6-4 in Region 5AAAA. Cartersville (20-7, 6-3) hosts LaGrange Friday at Richard Bell Field at 5:55pm and will conclude the regular season next Tuesday and Thursday with region games at Troup County and at home against Central-Carrollton. PHOTO CREDIT: Tonsmeire Studios / Louis Tonsmeire

The Cartersville High School girls tennis team won a region championship for the fifth straight season Wednesday with a 4-0 win over Central-Carrollton in the Region 5AAAA finals. The Cartersville boys team fell in the region finals to LaGrange, but will also host a state playoff match next week as a No. 2 seed. In the girls’ title match, Emma McCary won at Line 1 singles 6-4, 6-3, but each of the other matches were extended to a third set. Kenly King pulled out her Line 2 singles match as did the doubles teams of Taylor Riddle/Jordan Ross and Allyson Ireland/Lydia Wiedetz. The Cartersville boys team fell 2-3 in their championship match. LaGrange also won the regular season match with the Canes, 4-1. Evan Slocum and Will Allen won singles matches for the Hurricanes Wednesday to account for the Hurricanes two points. In next week’s state tournament, the Lady Canes will host the No. 4 seed out of Region 7AAAA. The Canes will entertain the No. 3 seed from that same region.