Baseball Recap: Purvis Drops Season-High Score on Sumrall

Tornadoes

Margin (Wins)

02/22/25 vs Wayne County	12
02/10/25 @ Wayne County	12
03/08/25 vs Columbia Academy	11
03/01/25 @ Oak Grove	11
02/15/25 @ Bay	11

Winning is always nice, but doing so behind a season-high score is even better (just ask Purvis). They blew past the Sumrall Bobcats 16-7 on Tuesday. Considering the Tornadoes have won ten matches by more than five runs this season, Tuesday's blowout was nothing new.

Kade Lawler looked comfortable as he struck out seven batters over four innings while giving up three earned (and one unearned) runs off six hits. That's the most strikeouts he has posted since back in March of 2024.

At the plate, JoJo Parker was incredible, scoring four runs and stealing a base while getting on base in four of his five plate appearances. Purvis is undefeated when Parker posts two or more runs, but 2-4 otherwise. Hudson Walker was another key player, going 3-for-4 with four RBI and one run.

Purvis was getting hits left and right and finished the game having posted a batting average of .406. They easily outclassed their opponents in that department as Sumrall only posted a batting average of .276.

Purvis' win bumped their record up to 13-4. As for Sumrall, this is the second loss in a row for them and nudges their season record down to 9-6.

Purvis will have a chance to go back-to-back against Sumrall: the pair's next game is a rematch scheduled at 6:30 p.m. on Friday.