Canes complete sweep of Woodland

The 3rd-ranked Cartersville Purple Hurricanes took both games of a doubleheader Saturday at Woodland and completed a three-game, Region 7-AAAAA series sweep of the Wildcats.

Cartersville, who won Tuesday’s first game in the series 6-0, won Saturday by scores of 5-0 and 6-2.

Cartersville pitcher Phillip Schiltz tossed a gem and Jake Brasfield drove in all five runs in the first game.

Schiltz went all seven innings on the mound, allowing no runs on four hits. He did not walk a batter and struck out seven.

Brasfield, who went 3-for-3 at the plate, drove in runs on a sacrifice fly in the first, a single in the third, a double in the fifth, and another single in the seventh inning.

Peyton Posey pitched all seven innings for Woodland. The Wildcats’ hurler gave up five runs — four earned — on 12 hits with a walk and four strikeouts. Posey also went 2-for-2 at the plate.

Julian Wright and Trevor Montgomery had the only other Woodland base hits.

Curt Bonner, Parker McPherson, and Blake Sutton all had two hits each for the Hurricanes. Hank Smith, Elliott Eastin, and Sam Melton added one hit apiece for Cartersville.

In the second game of Saturday’s twin bill, Cartersville took a 2-0 lead in the first inning, led 4-2 through three frames, and added two more insurance runs in the fourth on the way to a 6-2 victory.

Mason McBee started on the mound and nabbed the pitching victory for the Canes. McBee went 3 and 1/3 innings allowing two runs on four hits and three walks while striking out seven.

Colt McKibben entered with the bases loaded in the fourth inning and got out of a one-out jam. The southpaw pitched through the sixth inning allowing no runs on just two hits. Davis Williams struck out two of three batters faced while closing out the seventh for the Purple Hurricanes.

Woodland starter, Carter Heath, was tagged with the pitching loss. He went four innings allowing six runs — four earned — on seven hits and four walks. Heath struck out eight. Scotty Smith worked three innings of relief for the Wildcats. He allowed no runs on one hit and one walk, striking out three.

Jacob Gravett hit a solo home run for Woodland in the second inning that narrowed Cartersville’s lead to 2-1 at the time. Chase Carson had a double. Peyton Posey drove in a run with one hit. Chase Carson, Heath, Drew Billings, and Ayden Ray added one hit each for the Wildcats.

Parker McPherson had two hits including a double and two RBIs for the Canes. Jake Brasfield totaled two hits including a double and one RBI. Williams finished with two hits. Hank Smith tripled home a run in the first inning to start Cartersville’s scoring and Tyler Williamson contributed one hit and one RBI.

With the doubleheader loss, Woodland is now 5-13 overall and 1-8 in region play. The Wildcats are scheduled for a three-game region series against Hiram starting Tuesday with a single game at Woodland. Woodland then travels to Hiram Friday for a doubleheader.

Cartersville improves to 13-5 overall and 8-1 in Region 7-AAAAA. The Canes play a three-game region series next week against 2nd-ranked Blessed Trinity with Cartersville hosting a single game Tuesday at 5:55 p.m. and the Titans hosting a doubleheader in Roswell Thursday starting at 5 p.m.