Woodland, Adairsville lose non-region road games

The Woodland Wildcats and the Adairsville Tigers both suffered 6-3 non-region losses on the road Monday night.

Woodland lost in extra innings at Sonoraville while Adairsville fell at McEachern.

SONORAVILLE 6, WOODLAND 3 (8 innings)

Sonoraville’s Zach Lyles hit a walk-off, three-run home run in the bottom of the eighth inning Monday night to lift the Phoenix to a 6-3 non-region win over visiting Woodland.

The Wildcats opened the scoring with three runs in the top of the first. Julian Wright doubled home a pair of runs and Chase Carson added a RBI single.

Sonoraville cut the margin to 3-1 in the bottom of the first via a walk and an infield error.

In the bottom of the fifth, Lyles doubled and later scored on a single by Dawson Townsend to make the scored 3-2. Kannon England then launched a sacrifice fly that scored Jaxon Pate who had reached earlier on an infield error.

Pate (1 IP, 0R, 1H, 2K) collected the pitching win for Sonoraville in relief of starter AJ Hensley (7 IP, 3ER, 3H 2BB, 6K).

Lyles and Townsend combined for four of the Phoenix hits and four RBIs.

Ayden Ray (3.1 IP, 3ER, 1H, 5BB, 3K) suffered the Tigers’ pitching loss. Rowan Billings (4 IP, 3R, 1ER, 4H, 1BB, 3K) made the pitching start and Coby Barrett (0.1 IP, 0R, 0H, 1BB) retired one out in the fifth inning.

In addition to the hits by Wright and Carson, Jakiyon Porter and Connor Stermer added one hit apiece.

Sonoraville improved to 5-1 on the season.

Woodland (5-5) plays a doubleheader Saturday afternoon at Marietta.

McEACHERN 6, ADAIRSVILLE 3

McEachern scored three runs in the third and added three more in the fourth Monday night to defeat visiting Adairsville, 6-3, in Powder Springs.

The Tigers led 1-0 in the second inning and threatened with a pair of runs in the top of the sixth but got no closer.

Adairsville starting pitcher Grayson Belcher (3.1 IP, 5ER, 1H, 8BB, 6K) took the pitching loss. Kaiden Coker (2.2 IP, 1ER, 4H, 0BB, 1K) worked the final 2-⅔ innings on the mound for the Tigers.

Landon O’Neal had two hits and two RBIs for Adairsville in the loss. Jarrett Scott, Evan Sanders, and Peyton Bowen added one hit each.

The Indians improved to 7-5 on the year.

Adairsville (6-3) visits Cartersville Thursday at 5 p.m. and will host the Hurricanes Friday at 5:30 p.m.