Baseball Recap: Northwest Rankin wins going away against Pearl

By Team Reports Mar 27, 2024, 6:16pm

Baseball Recap: Northwest Rankin Cougars vs. Pearl Pirates

Northwest Rankin entered their tilt with Pearl with two consecutive wins but they'll enter their next game with three. Everything went their way against the Pearl Pirates on Wednesday as they made off with a 10-4 win. That result was just more of the same for these two, as Northwest Rankin also won the last time the pair played on Tuesday.

Amzie Cochran looked comfortable as he tossed two innings while giving up no earned run off two hits (he also only allowed one walk).

On the hitting side, Northwest Rankin got a big performance out of Jack Scott, who scored two runs while going 1-for-1. Nelson Barthel was another key contributor, going 1-for-3 with three RBI and a double.

Northwest Rankin has been performing incredibly well recently as they've won six of their last seven matchups, which provided a nice bump to their 14-5 record this season. As for Pearl, their loss was their sixth straight at home, which dropped their record down to 2-13.

Northwest Rankin will have a chance to go back-to-back against Pearl: the pair's next game is a rematch scheduled at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday.

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