Jones Co. ends Houston hot streak

Jones Co. ends Houston hot streak
From Staff Reports
Jones County High ended Houston County High’s 12-game baseball winning streak Tuesday by taking a 7-5 decision in Grey.

The Bears did have the go-ahead run at the plate in the top of the seventh and two more potential scores on the corner bases.

The Greyhounds were leading 6-4 after the second inning and shut down the potent Houston offense all the way until the seventh. That’s when the visiting team scored once to get back a run Jones plated in the fourth.
For the Bears, Mark Lumsden had three hits, including a double. Houston out-hit Jones 7 to 5 with Dalton Carriker driving in three of the runs on two hits.

Jason Brett’s team, at 5-1, still led its Region 2-AAAAA sub-region by two games after the second round of games with the other three schools in the league. The third round began Friday with Houston playing at Northside, which was tied with Jones for second place at 3-3.

WARHAWKS-PANTHERS
Playing for the first time this season, Veterans High and Perry High battled on the Warhawks’ baseball diamond Tuesday. It was win No. 9 in a row for David Coffey’s Veterans club, but it had to do it on offense in a game that was decided 12-10.

The Panthers had four errors.

The game was tied 6-6 when Veterans batted in the bottom of the fourth inning. The Warhawks went on to score six in that one turn and improved to 7-0 in Region 2-AAAA.

Micah Wells hit a home run and drove in three for the victors. Multi-hit games also came from the bats of Tyler Daughtry (double, single RBI), Mickey Dugan (two hits, two RBI) and David Shipplett (two hits, RBI). Zach Johnson batted home two runs.

Perry’s Dillon Hendrix drove home four runs on a double and two singles. Jake Farrell had four hits and two RBI, and Myles Sowell had three hits with one RBI.

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