Jags hold off Tigers for 4-2 victory
The Demopolis Tigers visited The Ridge on Friday night for some baseball under the lights on Friday night. It was quite chilly for a baseball outing, but the Jags were able to stay warm enough to amass a 4-0 lead, the hold off the Tigers in the top of the seventh inning and send them home with a 4-2 defeat.
The scoring column on the scoreboard was silent until the bottom of the second inning, when the Jags were able to break the drought, scoring a single run. Ford Cole led off the inning with a double off the fence in left field. A passed ball allowed Cole to advance to third base and another passed ball allowed Cole to score the go-ahead run.
It took Northridge another two innings to get on the board with another single run in the bottom of the fourth. With one out, Evan Malone ripped a pitch down the left field line and ended up at second after a little excitement on the basepath. (Malone found himself on the dirt a few steps from first, but was able to make it to second on a error on the throw to try to catch him headed back to first base.) Following the second out of the inning, Tayte Dunn doubled to left, scoring Malone and giving the Jags a 2-0 lead.
Northridge picked up its final two runs of the game in the bottom of the fifth. Sawyer Thompson led off with a single to left and was followed by Aiden Avery, who was hit by pitch. With one out, Wyatt Rath doubled to left, plating Thompson and Avery, giving Northridge a 4-0 lead.
The scoring column stayed idle in the sixth inning and Northridge thwarted a comeback effort by Demopolis in the top of the seventh. The Tigers were able to get two runs across the plate before the Jags secured the third out for the 4-2 win.
Rath, Malone, Cole, Dunn, Thompson and Kyle Nunnally picked up a single hit for the Jags. Malone, Cole, Nunnally and Thompson scored one run each. Rath totaled two RBIs and Dunn was credited with a single RBI.
Thomas Woolf got the start and completed five innings, striking out five, walking four and giving up a single hit. Brock Story served two innings in relief, striking out four and walking two, while giving up two runs on three hits.
