Baseball Game Preview: Coastal Mississippi Homeschool Wildcats vs. Jackson HomeSchool Victors

Wildcats

Runs

03/06/25 vs Ben's Ford Christian	6
03/03/25 @ Laurel HomeSchool	21
02/28/25 @ Lamar Christian	7
02/14/25 @ Hattiesburg HomeSchool	8
02/13/25 vs Meridian HomeSchool	13

For the first time this season, Coastal Mississippi Homeschool will have a chance to prove themselves in a conference matchup on Saturday. They will face off against the Jackson HomeSchool Victors at 2:00 p.m. Coastal Mississippi Homeschool is strutting in with some hitting muscle as they've averaged 9.2 runs per game this season.

On Thursday, Coastal Mississippi Homeschool beat Ben's Ford Christian 6-3. The six-run effort marked the Wildcats' lowest-scoring matchup of the season, but in the end it didn't matter.

Chase Cagna made a big impact no matter where he played. He looked comfortable on the mound, tossing four innings while giving up just one earned (and one unearned) run off three hits. Cagna was also big at the plate, going 2-for-3 with one RBI.

Cagna wasn't the only one making solid contact as three players wound up with at least one hit. One of them was Caleb Delaughter, who scored a run while going 2-for-4. Gunnar Webb also deserves some recognition as he snagged his first stolen base of the season.

Meanwhile, Jackson HomeSchool was not able to break out of their rough patch on Friday as the team picked up their fourth straight loss. They were a single run away from ending the streak, but they lost a 5-4 heartbreaker at the hands of Newton County Academy. One positive for the Victors, at least, is that this was the most points they've scored all season.

The win made it two in a row for Coastal Mississippi Homeschool and bumps their season record up to 4-2. A key ingredient in that success has been their performance when it comes to hits: they averaged an imposing ten hits in those games compared to only 4.5 in the others. As for Jackson HomeSchool, their defeat dropped their record down to 0-4.