The class AAAAAAA third-ranked Hillgrove Hawks baseball team finished out a three-game series against the fifth-ranked North Paulding Wolfpack, winning 6-3 to claim the series.
North Paulding won the first game on Tuesday 3-1, but the Hawks bounced back to claim a close 3-2 win yesterday. Tonight, the bats were alive for Hillgrove as the Hawks doubled the amount of hits for North Paulding with 8. A two-run first inning gave Hillgrove an early edge, but the Wolfpack would tie the game in the top of the second. Hillgrove strung together a pair of 2-run innings to regain the lead and go up 6-2 heading into the fourth. After two scoreless innings, North Paulding sent a runner home, but would fail to tack on anymore runs for the remainder of the game. Senior pitchers Austin Heard and Fred Wilson each struck out two batters for the Hawks’ bullpen, while Brennan Richardson came in during the seventh to close the game.
Hillgrove, now boasting a 22-5 record, await a three-game series against class AAAAAAA sixth-ranked North Cobb.
Thursday Spring Scores
Baseball
Appling County 3, Pierce County 1
Athens Christian 2, Hart County 1
Baldwin 5, Alcovy 4
Benedictine 13, Islands 10
Bleckley County 5, Toombs County 2
Brookstone 15, Dooly County 0
Calhoun 4, Ridgeland 0
Creekview 3, South Cobb 1
Dade County 1, Model 0
Decatur 6, Riverwood 3
Eastside 15, Henry County 0
Effingham County 5, Brunswick 0
Emanuel County Institute 10, Jenkins County 0
First Presbyterian 15, Georgia Military 0
Gordon Lee 21, Mt. Zion, Carroll 4
Hapeville Charter 16, KIPP Atlanta Charter 6
Haralson County 6, North Murray 2
Harrison 2, River Ridge 0
Hebron Christian 13, Commerce 9
Hillgrove 6, North Paulding 3
Holy Innocents’ 11, Duluth 5
Howard 3, Upson-Lee 2
Jeff Davis 10, Swainsboro 1
Jeff Davis 7, Swainsboro 3
Jefferson 12, Franklin County 7
Johns Creek 2, Centennial 1
Johnson-Gainesville 10, Cedar Shoals 0
Jones County 15, Stockbridge 0
King’s Ridge 8, Whitefield Academy 7
Kings Way 11, Peoples Baptist Academy 1
Marietta 7, McEachern 2
McIntosh 8, Griffin 0
McNair 5, B.E.S.T. Academy 2
Montgomery County 3, Claxton 2
Mt. de Sales 10, Washington-Wilkes 0
North Cobb Christian 7, Christian Heritage 0
Northside-Columbus 10, Shaw 0
Northview 10, North Springs 8
Northwest Whitfield 9, Pickens 0
Ola 4, Woodland-Stockbridge 0
Pelham 7, Wilcox County 5
Prince Avenue 7, George Walton Academy 5
Ringgold 12, Coahulla Creek 0
Rockmart 17, Gordon Central 0
Savannah Christian 4, Johnson County 3
South Effingham 6, New Hampstead 2
Statesboro 7, Ware County 0
Stephens County 6, Oconee County 4
Stratford Academy 11, Marion County 1
Union Grove 6, Dutchtown 0
Washington 11, Douglass 10
Weber 9, Galloway School 0
Boys Soccer
Academy For Classical Education 11, Portal 1
Bowdon 7, Haralson County 1
Cairo 10, Carver-Columbus 0
Cambridge 3, Clarkston 0
Cross Keys 5, Dunwoody 0
Dade County 2, Chattooga 0
Islands 1, Richmond Hill 1
Jackson County 3, Commerce 0
Morris Innovative 8, Mt. Zion, Carroll 0
Mt. Paran Christian 1, Darlington 0
Murray County 10, Christian Heritage 0
North Murray 8, Sonoraville 1
Southeast Whitfield 1, Northwest Whitfield 0
Tattnall County 2, Pierce County 1
Walker 4, North Cobb Christian 1
Winder-Barrow 4, North Oconee 1
Girls Soccer
Academy For Classical Education 4, Howard 4
Adairsville 4, Trion 1
Berkmar 2, Providence Christian 1
Bowdon 2, Haralson County 1
Bremen 2, Lamar County 1
Brookstone 4, LaGrange 2
Cairo 12, Carver-Columbus 0
Clarkston 5, North Clayton 0
Jackson 2, Westlake 2
Jefferson 2, Oconee County 0
Lakeview Academy 10, Athens Christian 0
Luella 5, Henry County 1
Mt. de Sales 4, Tattnall Square 0
Mt. Paran Christian 8, North Cobb Christian 1
Mt. Pisgah Christian 4, King’s Ridge 0
Mt. Zion-Jonesboro 3, Lovejoy 1
Northwest Whitfield 3, Southeast Whitfield 0
Paideia 5, Holy Innocents’ 0
Pierce County 3, Tattnall County 0
Pinecrest Academy 1, Hebron Christian 0
South Effingham 4, Wayne County 1
Southeast Bulloch 1, Screven County 0
Boys Lacrosse
Fellowship Christian 15, Holy Innocents’ 7
Forsyth Central 9, Sequoyah 6
Grady 15, Eagles Landing Christian 8
Kell 15, Mt. Paran Christian 9
King’s Ridge 14, Mt. Vernon Presbyterian 11
Newnan 1, Pebblebrook 0
Wesleyan 22, Trinity Christian 11
Girls Lacrosse
Buford 18, Pinecrest Academy 7
Cambridge 20, Lakeside-DeKalb 0
Campbell 14, Carrollton 11
Denmark 12, North Oconee 10
Harrison 20, Allatoona 10
Newnan 15, Trinity Christian 9
Sequoyah 13, Forsyth Central 12