Baseball wins 7th straight; sweeps Sparta

The roller-coaster Pioneer baseball season continued Tuesday night.

Warren County, which suffered through a double-digit losing streak earlier in the spring, won its seventh straight at Ramsey Field, completing a sweep of District 7-AAA foe White County with a 7-2 win.

The victory upped the Pioneers? league record to 6-4, and they improved to 11-14 overall.

Six different WCHS batters came away with hits, including Derrin Rogers, who went 2-for-2 with an RBI to help his cause on the mound, where he picked up another complete-game victory, striking out eight Warriors en route to the win.

With the loss, White County fell to 10-12 on the year and 1-9 in district play.

Mark Harvey came through with the Pioneers? first RBI of the game, doubling to center field to bring home Casey Talbert, who had led off the second with a walk and advanced on a sacrifice bunt by Rogers. Justin Bouldin?s two-out hit to right plated Harvey, and an error on the play moved Bouldin into position to score when Zach Fisher singled up the middle.

Fisher?s hit gave the Pioneers a 3-1 lead, as White County had scored in the top of the frame when Mitch Salley drove home Seth McDonald with a single to right.

The Pioneers added a run in the third, when Clint Newman beat out an infield hit and courtesy runner Matt McColloch scored on Talbert?s single to left.

White County trimmed the gap to 4-2 in the fourth, when McDonald doubled home J.J. Taylor, but with runners at the corners Rogers got out of the jam by fanning Salley on a 3-2 curve ball, then forcing Dalton Bain to ground back to the box before retiring Roggie Haston on a fly ball.

Rogers drove home an insurance run in the bottom of the fifth, singling to center to plate Kyle Mullican, and the Pioneers padded their lead with two runs in the bottom of the sixth on a two-out single from Newman which scored Mullican and Fisher, who had both walked.

Newman had two hits for the Pioneers, while Talbert, Harvey, Bouldin and Fisher added one apiece. The Warriors got two hits each from Blake Rice and Seth McDonald, while Caleb Arnold took the loss on the hill, falling to 4-1 despite striking out five batters.

Warren County was scheduled to take on Sequatchie County Thursday night, and will face Shelbyville on the road Saturday.