Prep roundup: Bruins fall to Generals on diamond

Published 8:06 am Friday, March 2, 2012

Northwest Whitfield’s baseball team came up short in its bid for revenge at Heritage-Catoosa on Thursday.

The Bruins fell 7-2 in the non-region game after losing to Heritage 3-0 Monday in Tunnel Hill, where they were held hitless.

Diego Peralta and Edwin Hernandez each had two hits for the Bruins this time around, and Luke Hensley and Nick Sullivan each drove in a run, but the Generals’ two-out rallies were trouble for Northwest (3-2).

In the bottom of the third inning, Bruins pitcher Matt Allen had two outs and no one on base, but walked two straight batters. An error on the next batter scored two runs, and a double followed to give Heritage a 3-1 lead.

Allen was chased after three innings, allowing only one hit and three unearned runs.

A similar sequence happened in the fifth. With two outs and no Heritage runners on base, Andy Whisenant issued a pair of walks and Heritage added to its lead.

Whisenant allowed four hits and four runs in three innings of work.

“The pitching was fine,” Northwest coach Todd Middleton said, “and we only had a couple errors, but they were crucial errors.”

The Bruins struggled to put together a string of hits and left runnners on base early in the game. Northwest had bases loaded with no one out in the top of the first, but managed just a run.

“On offense, we didn’t get too many runners in scoring position (after the first inning),” Middleton said. “We had eight hits, but they were scattered throughout.”

Golf

• Southeast Whitfield boys 175, Heritage 185: Led by Eric Sosebee and Cameron Maynard, who shared medalist honors for the nine-hole match, the Raiders (1-1) topped the Generals for the first time.

Sosebee and Maynard each shot a seven-over-par 43, and they were closely followed by teammates Andrew Head (44) and Ryan Collins (45) as the team dropped 11 strokes off its score during Tuesday’s season-opening a loss to Ringgold on the same course.

• Southeast girls 97, Heritage 120: Megan Collins’ 43 earned medalist honors, and Carli Ledford (54) also scored as the Lady Raiders won their second straight nine-hole match to open the season.

• North Murray boys 152, Ringgold 172, Coahulla Creek 179: Brandon Parrish shot a 1-under 35 to earn medalist honors and lead the Mountaineers to the nine-hole victory at Nob North in Cohutta.

Also scoring for North Murray (1-0) were Colby Hipp and Tanner West, who each had a 38, and Adrian Patino, who shot a 41.

Coahulla Creek’s individual scores were not reported by The Daily Citizen’s deadline.

• North Murray’s Jocelyn Blair shot a 46 and teammate Hali Sheram had a 51 in nine-hole competition at Nob North.

Ringgold had only one participating golfer, and Coahulla Creek’s scores were not reported by The Daily Citizen’s deadline.

Tennis

• Northwest girls 4, Ringgold 1: In non-region action and pro-set play, the Lady Bruins (1-1) swept singles play and took one doubles match.

In singles, winners were No. 1 Cassie Kiker, 8-2, No. 2 Emma Jones, 8-0, and No. 3 Gracie Cansler, 8-0. In doubles, No. 1 Valerie White and Sydney Wagner won 8-0.

• Northwest boys 3, Ringgold 2: The Bruins (1-1) swept doubles and got an 8-5 singles victory from No. 1 Ashmit Mittall to take the non-region victory.

Doubles victories came from No. 1 Justin Sanders and Jacob Frederickson, 8-0, and No. 2 David Williams and Triston Smith, who accepted a forfeit.

• North Murray boys 4, Coahulla Creek 1: With the non-region road win, the Mountaineers remained undefeated through three matches to start the season.

North Murray swept doubles play, getting wins from No. 1 Jacob Ledford and Mark Lents, 6-0, 6-4, and No. 2 Wesley Ross and Alex Ellis, 6-3, 6-0. In singles, No. 2 Dylan Davis won 7-6, 1-6, 1-0, while No. 3 Ross Whitman won 6-3, 6-4.

Coahulla Creek’s winning score was not reported by The Daily Citizen’s deadline.

• North Murray girls 3, Coahulla Creek 2: The Lady Mountaineers (2-1) also swept doubles, with wins from No. 1 Chelsey Cochran and Bailli Douthitt and No. 2 Lindsey Ray and Chandler Scott, both 6-0, 6-0. In singles, No. 3 Hanna Abdelrazzaq also won 6-0, 6-0 for North Murray.

Coahulla Creek’s winning scores were not reported by The Daily Citizen’s deadline.

• Christian Heritage boys 5, Silverdale Baptist 4: In a scrimmage match at Dalton Golf and Country Club against their visitors from Chattanooga, the Lions picked up singles wins from No. 1 Phillip McClure, 8-5, No. 2 Evan Townsend, 8-8 (1-0), and and No. 3 Devin Sanders, 8-2.

In doubles, No. 1 McClure and Townsend won 8-4, while No. 2 Sanders and Samuel Pippin won 8-1.

The Lions, who are in their first year of competition, also dropped an earlier scrimmage match to Tennessee’s Signal Mountain, 5-2. McClure won 8-4 that day at No. 1 singles and also teamed up with Townsend at No. 1 doubles for an 8-6 win. At No. 2 singles, Townsend played to a 7-7 tie in a match cut short because of time.

Christian Heritage’s girls lost a scrimmage with Signal Mountain that same day, 6-3.

The Lady Lions got singles wins from No. 4 Emma Reigel, 8-5, and No. 6 Sydney White, 8-4, plus a doubles win from No. 2 Ann Kathryn Anglea and Katie Long, 8-2.

Track and field

• Northwest won the girls competition and the Bruins took second in a four-team meet at Heritage.

In the girls meet, Northwest won with 119 points, ahead of the host Lady Generals (61), Gordon Lee (36) and Ringgold (24).

Brianna Coppock won three events to lead the Lady Bruins, taking first in the 200-meter dash (27.81 seconds), 100 (12.86) and long jump (15 feet, 3 inches). Double winners for Northwest were Allie Mullins (100 hurdles, 16.80; 300 hurdles, 53.46) and Shelby Wilson (800, 2:32; 1,600, 5:47).

Other individual winners were Carley Fetzer (shot put, 33-6 1/4) and McKinley Hopkins (triple jump, 31-4), and the Lady Bruins also won both relays.

In the 4×100, Mullins, Coppock, Macy Weeks and Maggie Kalafut won in 52.46, while the 4×400 team of Kalafut, Hopkins, Wilson and Taylor Sistrunk won in 4:44.

In the boys meet, Northwest finished with 72 points, nine behind Heritage. Ringgold’s 46 points edged Gordon Lee by one for third place.

Double winners for the Bruins were Blake Heard (high jump, 6-0; long jump, 19-9 1/4) and Cliff Phillips (200, 22.67; 400, 51.54), while Brody Cook took the 3,200 in 11:33.

The Bruins and Lady Bruins will host the annual Northwest Invitational on Saturday, welcoming Dalton, Southeast, Calhoun, Cass, Darlington, Rome, Villa Rica and Woodland-Bartow to Tunnel Hill for the area’s first big meet of the season. Competition begins at 9 a.m.

JV soccer

• Northwest boys 1, Rome 0: Set up by teammate Brandon Jimenez, the Bruins’ Bryan Villa scored in the 27th minute, and Northwest (2-1) made the lead stand in a road win.

Jose Marquez had four saves in goal for the Bruins, who outshot Rome 8-5.