For the first time this season, the Newton County Lady Cougars had their backs to the wall.
They responded by scoring 53 runs in the next two games to take the best two-out-of-three series from Lawrence County on Tuesday night.
The Newton County Academy Generals won their second straight game as they battered home-standing Benton Academy.
The Generals had 438 yards of total offense and scored the game’s last 21 points to take a 42-14 win over Benton.
The Generals improve to 2-7 on the season with the win while the Raiders fall to 0-9.
With an open date, Lake had two weeks to prepare for unbeaten Scott Central.
The extra time didn’t help any as Scott Central used a quick-strike offense and stingy defense to race out to a 34-0 lead and cruise to a 41-0 win on Thursday night in a 4-2A showdown.
After making the Class 2A championship game in fast-pitch last year, the Lady Hornets came up short of making the title game in slow-pitch this season.
After beating Bogue Chitto 13-9 and 15-11 on Tuesday, the Lady Hornets fell in two games to Eupora, falling 14-13 in Game 1 and 18-4 in Game 2.
The Newton County Lady Cougars continued their march toward Freedom Ridge Park as they won four games last week, beating Poplarville and Florence by a combined score of 76-17.
On Tuesday, Newton County swept Florence in two games, winning 21-2 an 14-1. On Thursday, the Lady Cougars hammered Poplarville 22-12 and 19-2.
The Newton Tigers ran into another buzzsaw on Thursday night, as Bay Springs dealt the Tigers a 40-20 setback at E.L. Morgan Field.
Scoring
Player Points
Ethan Gray, Lake 80
Kenyon Clay, Union 54
Lincoln Jordan, NCA 54
Colby Ferguson, Union 50
Zywon Ledbetter, Lake 42
D’Alex Jennings, Lake 38
Marcus Wash, County 36
Jaylon Buckley, Union 32
Cole Shimfessell, County 32
Rod Evans, County 24
The Lake Lady Hornets are getting hot at the right time as they won five games this past week, four of them by the run rule.
Lake opened the Class I playoffs with sweep of Leake County, winning 17-0 and 25-5. On Monday, the Lady Hornets beat Stringer in a pair of 14-1 games and then beat Clarkdale 9-7 on Tuesday.
The Newton County Cougars fell victim to a big-play Quitman offense on Friday night.
Quitman scored the game’s first 26 points and led 40-7 at the half as the Panthers took a 47-20 win over the Cougars on Friday.
As far as high school rivalries are concerned, it doesn’t get much better than Lake and Scott Central.
The two teams will meet on Thursday night in a key 4-2A contest.
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