Lady Canes fall in region opener

Calhoun defeated Cartersville 2-0 in both teams’ Region 7-AAAAA opener Wednesday at Atco Park despite a strong pitching performance from Cartersville’s McKinley Chada and Kiley Arnold.

The Yellow Jackets broke open a scoreless game with Kayleigh Warren’s solo home run in the fourth inning and added an insurance run in the seventh.

The Calhoun pitching combo of Sydney Terry (4.1 IP, 0R, 3H, 2BB, 1K) and Athens Hudson (2.2 IP, 0R, 0H, 4K) kept the Lady Canes off the scoreboard.

Ava Perkins, Erin McCrary, and Chada had one hit each for Cartersville.

Aryian Berner led Calhoun with two hits.

Calhoun improved to 3-2 overall and 1-0 in region play.

Cartersville (1-2, 0-1) will look to bounce back Thursday when they travel to Hiram for another region game at 5:30 p.m.