Saturday's baseball roundup: Canes, Tigers pick up shutout wins

Purple Hurricanes’ pitchers Caden Carroll and Drew Rothschild combined Saturday to shutout visiting Forsyth Central and the two combined for 14 strikeouts in the process.

Carroll started on the mound. He scattered five hits and two walks over the first four innings and struck out seven. Rothschild did not allow a hit and struck out seven over the final three innings. He also walked two.

The Cartersville offense took a 1-0 lead in the second inning and added four more runs in the third.

Rothschild had two hits including a double and two RBIs. Curt Bonner also had a two hit game with a double. Hank Smith finished with a double and one RBI. Landon Cole contributed a base hit. Harrison Childers and Blake Sutton added one RBI each.

The Bulldogs slipped to 0-4 on the year with their loss.

Cartersville (3-1) will participate in the 2022 Perfect Game High School Showdown Thursday through Saturday in Hoover, Alabama. The Canes open pool play Thursday at 4:30 p.m. against Sparkman (Ala.) and will face Cherokee County (Ala.) that evening at 7 p.m.

MARIETTA 6, WOODLAND 5

Woodland went to extra innings at Marietta Saturday, but came up short when the Blue Devils pushed across a walk-off run in the bottom of the eighth inning with an RBI bunt single.

The two teams went to extra innings tied 5-5. Woodland scored a single run in the top of the first and added a pair of runs in both the fourth and fifth innings. Marietta posted single runs in the first and fifth innings and scored three times in the sixth.

Seven Wildcats had one hit each including Jacob Gravett (2 RBIs), Rowan Billings (RBI), Julian Wright (double), Chase Carson, Jakiyon Porter, Ayden Ray, and Conner Stermer.

Ray (0.0 IP, 1ER, 2H, 2BB) was tagged with the pitching loss. Julian Wright (3 IP, 1ER, 1H, 5BB, 2K) started on the mound with Nate Rosser (2 IP, 1ER, 2H, 1BB, 1K), and Stermer (2 IP, 3ER, 3H, 1BB, 2K) also pitching in relief.

Marietta improved to 1-3 on the season.

Woodland (3-2) plays at Rome Tuesday (5:30 p.m.), at Wheeler Thursday (5:55 p.m.), and at Rockmart Friday (5:45 p.m.).

ARMUCHEE 3, ADAIRSVILLE 1

In the first of two games of a doubleheader Saturday, Armuchee scored a run in the first and two more in the second inning to take a 3-1 lead. As it turned out, that was enough as pitchers from both teams kept runs off the board from the third inning forward.

Jack Rogers picked up the pitching win for Armuchee allowing just one earned run in six innings of work. He walked two and struck out six. Ethan Campbell worked a scoreless seventh to earn a save for the Indians.

None of the three runs allowed by the Tigers were earned.

Brendan Carroll (4.1 IP, 3R, 0ER, 4H, 1BB, 3K) and Braden Powell (2.2 IP, 0R, 2H, 0BB, 4K) combined in the loss to strikeout seven.

P.J. Weeks had two hits including a double at the top of the Tigers’ order. Tyler Driggers (RBI) and Chris Roper also had two hits for Adairsville. Dawson Craig added one hit.

ADAIRSVILLE 1, ARMUCHEE 0

Adairsville’s Jack Whitley scattered four hits and a walk while fanning eight Saturday to shutout Armuchee, 1-0, in the second game of a doubleheader between the two teams.

Meanwhile, the Tigers’ offense produced the game’s only run in the bottom of the fourth when Peyton Bowen singled home Braden Powell. Powell had reached after being hit by a pitch and moved to third on a throwing error by the Indians’ pitcher.

With the doubleheader split, Armuchee is now 2-4 on the season.

Adairsville (2-3) is scheduled to host Trion Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. and has a home doubleheader next Saturday at 12 noon against Temple.