Maroon Tide to battle West Jones

The Picayune Maroon Tide (17-9) swept Stone in Round 2 of Class 5A baseball playoffs winning by scores of 6-2 and 10-3 under the leadership of Head Coach Cody Stogner.

Hitters

Kyler Lauga leads the Maroon Tide with .388 batting avg with 31 hits and 27 runs scored. Chad Dudenhefer .325 avg, 17 RBIs. Chad "The Cobra" Stockstill .321 with 3 HR 20 RBIs. Kade Turnage .317 avg, 2 HR, 14 RBIs. Jakail Myers has 2 HR and 15 RBIs.

Pitchers:

Logan Ledet 6-2 1.62 ERA.(56 IP - 77 K)

Luke Smith 5-2 1.69 ERA. (49.2 IP – 60 K)

Trey Wells 4-1 3.78. (37 IP – 16 K)

Schedule

Thursday Game 1 at Picayune 7:00pm WRJW 1320 AM and wrjwradio.com

Friday Game 2 at West Jones 7:00pm WRJW 1320 AM and wrjwradio.com

Saturday Game 3 (if necessary) at Picayune 7:00pm wrjwradio.com

THE OPPONENT

West Jones (23-5) Region 5 (1st place)

Head Coach Trey Sutton

Beat Long Beach 4-0 and 3-0 in Round 2

Hitters

Cole Tolbert .314 4 HR 20 RBIs. Dustin Dickerson .329 with 2 HR 21 RBIs, Walker Thompson .329 11 RBIs, Garrett McLaurin .293 28 RBIs.

Pitchers

Kris Riley 5-1 1.08 ERA (39 IP – 75 K)

Dustin Dickerson 6-1 2.29 ERA (36.2 IP – 59 K)

Sam Hill 4-1 1.78 ERA (35.1 IP – 44 K)

Garrett McLaurin 3-1 1.36 ERA (25.2 IP – 33 K)