Wolverines Split With NSM, Fall to Wildcats
By EDDY GIFFORD
Sports Writer
The Dade County Wolverine baseball team traveled to Ft. Payne, Ala., on Tuesday, Feb. 27, to face the Wildcats for the second time this season and came away with a tough 4-1 loss.
Photo by Eddy Gifford – Mason Gatlin delivers a pitch against North Sand Mountain last week. Gatlin pitched 6.2 innings but did not get the decision. He did, however, get the big hit in the bottom of the seventh to drive in the winning run in a 2-1 Wolverine victory.
The Wolverines managed just three hits with Mason Gatlin, River McBryar, and Harley Russell picking up those hits. McBryar also had an RBI.
Parker Hill pitched five strong innings for Dade County giving up six hits and four runs, two of which were earned, while striking out three and walking two.
TB: McBryar 1, Gatlin 1, Russell 1. E: Guinn
On Thursday, the Wolverines hosted the North Sand Mountain Bison baseball team for the first home game of the season. Due to weather concerns for Friday, the teams played a doubleheader.
The game turned out to be a classic pitchers’ dual with both teams struggling to score runs. After a pair of scoreless innings, Dade managed to push a run across in the bottom of the third to take a 1-0 lead.
The Bison managed a run in the top of the fourth to tie the game 1-1. That would be the only runs scored until the bottom of the seventh when the Wolverines pushed across a run with two outs when Gatlin singled to score Hill with the winning run, 2-1.
Gatlin pitched 6.2 innings, giving up five hits and one run, while striking out nine and walking two.
The Bison pitcher pitched six innings, giving up three hits, one run, striking out seven, and walking one.
Gatlin had one hit and the game winning RBI while McBryar had one hit and an RBI.
TB: Guinn 2, Gatlin 1, McBryar 1
HBP: Russell
E: Hill, McBryar
In the second game of the doubleheader, the Wolverines took the early lead, scoring one run in the bottom of the first inning. They held onto that lead until NSM took the lead 2–1 in the top of the third inning.
The Bison added another run in the top of the fifth to take a 3-1 lead.
Dade picked up its second run of the game in the sixth to cut the lead to 3-2, but the Bison put the game away in the top of the seventh when they scored four runs to claim a big 7-2 win over the Wolverines.
Jax Guinn took the loss while pitching six strong innings, giving up just three runs, one earned, striking out six, and walking three. He was hurt by five Dade County errors in the game.
Levi Jordan and Hill had two hits each for Dade.
2B: Jordan
TB: Jordan 2, Hill 2, Jones 1, Shavers 1, McBryar 1.
SB: Russell, Guinn, McBryar
E: Jones, Russell, Jordan, Hill, McBryar.
This week, the Wolverines began region play when they hosted the Chattooga Indians on Monday. Dade County will travel to Chattooga on Thursday, and Chattooga will travel back to Trenton on Friday. Game times are set for 5:30 p.m.
