Beats

Tuscaloosa County beat by Northridge in the battle of the cats

The Tuscaloosa County High Wildcats were bested by the Northridge Jaguars on Jan. 17 in a six to nine game. The wildcats are now one and two after their last three games against Sipsey Valley and Hillcrest. The games can be summed up by short burst of offense from both teams. The game kicked off when Ingram opened the scoring for the Jaguars in the first inning while under the pitching of Brandon Garrison. Northridge then went on to get double and a homerun both resulting to tallies on the scoreboard making it six to zero. TCH get on the board at the top of the third inning when senior Willie Wedgeworth scores and Harrison Scout walks. No one gets on the board again until the top fourth inning when Wedgeworth doubles on a line drive the right fielder leading to Brian Cooley and Landen Borden scoring; TCH limited Northridge’s lead to just three. The offense picked up in the bottom fourth inning. Pitcher Davin Sloan is in for the wildcats; Davis walks, while Ingram scores leading to all the bases being loaded. The score being three to seven in favor of Northridge. Matthew Estes comes in as relief for Sloan. Northridge pitcher Crouse singles, and Rudolph, and Wallace score for the jaguars; they extend their lead from seven to nine. TCH are not able to get any scoring back till the top of the sixth when Sloan singles on a hard ground ball to center field and Borden, and Wedgeworth scores. After that play the Wildcats are in striking distance now only being four away. The sixth inning ends with outs on the base paths. In the seventh and last inning, TCH makes it six when Grant Hickman walks leading to Cooley scoring. Unfortunately, after that play, there is another strike and the three outs led to the end of the game. The Wildcats burst of offense looked good but overall, they could not overcome Northridge’s early lead.

Tuscaloosa Wildcats Varsity Beats Minor High  

-Adamsville, AL. Tuscaloosa Country (TCH) Varsity Baseball team won big against Minor High School. The team was able to defeat the team despite a poor fifth inning giving up six runs. Minor had RBIs in the fifth inning. The final score was fourteen to eleven.

The two innings began with Wildcat short stop Hayden Strickland allowing five hits and four runs against Minor High. He strikes out four and allowed one walk. Despite this the TCH go up by four in the top of the first. Willie Wedgeworth, utility player, bunts and reaches on an error by Minor pitcher Jordan Bryant. Wedgeworth continues and advances to second and third base on errors by the pitcher. The score then becomes two to zero. The Wildcats double their lead on double from hitter Will Keller.

Minor gets on the board during the bottom first when pitcher Alex Glass hits a hard ground ball on an error by shortstop Landen Borden. They score again with Amir Morgan singling on a fly ball leading to basemen Michael Archie scoring. It becomes six to three after right fielder Tylan Amerson walks while Strickland is pitching. Glass scores. Wildcats still lead by three with a score of six to three.

In the top of the second inning, TCH were able to extend their lead to seven. Second basemen Matthew Estes singles on a line drive leading to Stout scoring. The score then goes to ten to three when William Keller, designated hitter, triples on a line drive; Sloan and Gentle score. Minor responds in the bottom second making the score ten to four.

Top of the third, Borden steals third and Wedgeworth steals second. First and third baseman Brax Garrison singles on a hard ground ball. Borden scores and Wedgeworth score. Then center fielder Glasgow singles leading to Estes scoring. Wildcats are now at thirteen. During the bottom third Minor scores on errors by Glasgow. The next time TCH scores is during the top of the fourth inning on a sacrifice fly. By this time the Wildcats had run away with a score of fourteen to five.

The Wildcats give up five runs in the fifth and final inning of the game. Amir Morgan, Tylan Amerson, Michael Archie, and Alex Glass all come up big for Minor with RBIs. The score is then fourteen to eleven Luckily because of big lead they created in the first half of the game, TCH were able to hang on and still come out with the win. They head off to Mississippi after huge offensive game.